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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009 in Local
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Election day: Something old, new on city councils
The Times-Herald
There will be new yet familiar faces at city council meetings in Grantville and Sharpsburg come January.
Grantville City Council candidate Selma Coty easily beat incumbent Nick Sasso in Tuesday's election. Coty received 66.03 percent of the vote. Coty was a council member and an interim mayor in the 1990s.
In Sharpsburg, former Mayor Wendall Staley narrowly defeated former councilwoman Polly Garlington, 36-34. The mayoral Sharpsburg race came down to the three absentee votes. Of those, two votes were for Staley and one was for Garlington.
When the two candidates faced each other two years ago, results were a bit different. In the race for a council seat, Garlington defeated Staley, who was mayor at the time, by a 27-12 vote.
In the other races, incumbents easily returned to their positions on the Grantville and Senoia city councils.
Grantville councilwoman Rochelle Jabaley received 161 votes, or 73.52 percent, in the race against challenger Marion Cieslik.
In Senoia, voters picked two of the three city council candidates. Jeff Fisher, who was appointed to the council earlier this year to fill an unexpired term, received 219 votes. Larry Owens, who has served six years on the council, received 172 votes. Challenger Harry Ramos received 128 votes.
Everything went pretty smoothly on election day, said Coweta Elections Superintendent Jane Scoggins. The Grantville and Sharpsburg returns were a little late in arriving at the Coweta Administration Office because both precincts had several voters arrive just minutes before the 7 p.m. closing time, she said.
Vote totals were complete shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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