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Fredericksburg:
UPDATE: Paolucci wins Ward 4 council seat

Jannan Holmes unseated 18-year School Board veteran Janice Walsh tonight, in the only contested race in Fredericksburg. Holmes won the Ward 3 School Board race with 61 percent of the vote. That percentage was possible even though Holmes won by only 72 votes, because turnout was low all over the city, as most candidates faced no opposition, and no names even appeared on the ballot in the Ward 4 City Council race. The Ward 1 precinct at Hugh Mercer Elementary School didn't even see 100 voters come through. The winner of the Ward 4 City Council race will be determined by write-in votes. Fredericksburg's Electoral Board will begin counting those votes Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. at the registrar's office in the Executive Plaza on Caroline Street. Unopposed School Board incumbents Pat Green, Barbara Miller-Richards and Malvina Kay and City Council incumbents Brad Ellis and George Solley all won new terms. In Ward 3, Fred Howe III will replace outgoing Councilman Matt Kelly come July 1.

Culpeper:

By DONNIE JOHNSTON

Culpeper voters today overwhelmingly elected Councilman Chip Coleman as the town's new mayor.

Coleman's margin was almost 2–1 over Pranas Rimeikis, who was seeking his third term in the town’s highest office.

Former police Chief Dan Boring was the top vote-getter in today's election, capturing 989 votes to win one of four seats on the ballot in the at-large Town Council race.

Vice-Mayor Billy Yowell (759 votes), incumbent Jim Risner (647 votes) and newcomer Ben Phillips (630 votes) also won seats in the seven-candidate election.

Dave Lochridge finished with 585 votes, Frank Reaves with 571 and former Councilman Steve Jenkins brought up the rear with 485.

Orange:

BY ROBIN KNEPPER

Chuck Mason is returning to the Orange Town Council after leading the field of five contenders in today’s election.

Mason received 74 percent of the 610 votes cast. He served two terms, from 1998 to 2006, and didn't seek re-election four years ago.

Mayor Henry Lee Carter, 74, and Harry Hopkins, 77, were re-elected. Carter captured his third term and Hopkins his second.

Nancy Alexander, 52, lost her bid for a second term on the council. Ben Sherman, 46, was unsuccessful in his first run for political office.

Colonial Beach:

By FRANK DELANO

Newcomer Shane M. Buzby, former Councilman Gary E. Seeber and incumbent Stephen R. Kennedy were certified today as winners of the three Colonial Beach Town Council seats in Tuesday’s election.

Incumbent David H. Coombes finished a close fourth. Buzby received 405 votes, Seeber 309, Kennedy 250 and Coombes 245.

The outcome of the election was not clear until today because the Westmoreland County Electoral Board had to count votes for three write-in candidates.

None tallied enough votes to win. Mike Ham led the write-in pack with 204 votes, followed by Timothy E. Curtin with 40 and Joseph R. Head III with 45.

Town voters also elected V.G. “Vicki” Roberson and C. Wayne Kennedy to the School Board Tuesday.

Bowling Green:

Bowling Green Town Council has three new faces.

Caroline County residents Mary Frances Coleman, Jean M. Davis and J. "Glen" Lanford will serve four-year terms on the council.

Coleman, 73, is a retired administrator for a Washington law firm. She received 105 votes, and said she looks forward to hearing the concerns of the citizens.

Davis, 70, is a retired daycare owner and a regular attendee of the council meetings. She received 91 votes.

She said that she was disappointed that only 210 people voted in this election and hopes that she can increase community involvement and get more residents involved.

Lanford, 39, is a mortgage banker for Union First Market Bank and he also won 91 votes.

Lanford said revitalizing the downtown business area and making the town more attractive to younger families and new businesses were his top issues for this year's race. His grandfather, Charles Bowie Lanford Sr., served on Town Council for 20 years and was the mayor of Bowling Green from 1970 to 1980.

Eight people ran for the three spots that were open. There were no write-ins, according to Registrar Danette Moen.

Robert "Bobby" Ketterman, who has served on the council for a total of 14 years, lost his seat tonight. Members Mark Mallin and Eric Hinson did not run for re-election.

Because the council serves staggered terms, Councilmen Glenn McDearmon, Jason Satterwhite, Daniel Webb, Otis Wright and Mayor David Storke will continue to serve for two more years.

In Port Royal, Caroline County's other incorporated town, six people ran for seven seats on the Town Council.

The winning candidates include Nancy Long with 48 votes, Bill Wickwith 40 votes; Bill Henderson with 38 votes, Jim Heimbach with 35 votes; Monica Chenault with 32 votes, Rosie Upshaw with 29 votes and Oliver Fortune with 27 votes.

Upshaw and Fortune were write-in candidates.