Voters elect challengers to city, school board

Voters put two new faces on the Clarendon City Council and the Clarendon CISD school board last Saturday, while also returning four incumbents.

City voters, looking to fill three positions on the city council, returned former alderman Tommy Hill to office. He will join incumbents Larry Jeffers and John Lockhart, who were re-elected.

Vote tallies were Jeffers 208, Lockhart 197, Hill 149, and incumbent Eulaine McIntosh 131.

In the election to decide three seats on the Clarendon CISD Board of Trustees, Donny Howard will become a new member on the board and serve with incumbents Chuck Robertson and Robin Ellis.

Vote tallies at the school were Robertson 296, Ellis 258, Howard 235, and incumbent Zack Robinson 206.

Donley County voters followed the rest of the state in approving by wide margins two proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution designed to lower property taxes. Proposition 1 and Proposition 2 were approved locally by margins of 289-53 and 269-87 respectively.