Wood, Dale win board seats
Published 9:37 pm Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Veteran Mayor Tom Richter, facing no opposition, was returned to office by Washington Park voters Tuesday.
The town’s Board of Commissioners will have two new faces. They are Brian Wood and Wade Dale.
Commissioner James Pagnani opted not to seek re-election. After filing for re-election, Don Wilkinson died. His death resulted in the filing period for the town board being extended. Wade Dale and Christie Potts filed during that period.
The mayor and commissioners serve two-year terms.
Washington Park had 139 voters mark ballots. Richter received 123 votes.
Jeff Peacock was the top vote-getter (118) in the six=person race for the five open seats on the board. He was followed by successful candidates Lee Bowen (116 votes), Wood (115 votes), Patrick Nash (111 votes) and Dale (92 votes). Vote totals released Tuesday night are unofficial.
Bowen, Nash and Peacock are incumbent commissioners. Wood is the town’s public-works supervisor. Dale’s wife, Denise, is the town’s clerk.
Potts collected 90 votes. She could call for a recount because the difference between her vote total and Dale’s vote total is 1 percent or less. Potts, reached Tuesday night after the vote totals came in, said she would have to think about asking for a recount.
About Mike Voss
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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