| Fayetteville elects
Steel mayor; runoff set for council Post 1 Kenneth
Steele will move into the mayor's chair in
Fayetteville after winning in Tuesday's municipal
election.
Steele
received 60.3 percent of the votes cast, 737,
while opponent Paul Oddo received 39.7 percent,
or 486 votes.
A
runoff is set for Tuesday, Nov. 16 in the Post 1
City Council race in Fayetteville, as no one
among three candidates received a majority of the
vote in Tuesday's municipal elections.
Clyde
Avery, who received 509 votes, or 42.9 percent of
the 1,187 votes cast, faces Bill Talley, who
garnered 466 votes, or 39.3 percent.
Talley
is chief financial officer for a Pine Mountain
bank. Avery is a broker for Southeastern
Properties Inc., a commercial property management
firm.
The
third candidate in the race, Paul Carter,
received 212 votes, 17.9 percent of the total.
In
the Post 2 council race, incumbent Glenn Brewer
had no opposition.
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