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Rockingham Commissioner Appointed To Fill Unexpired Term In State House

The North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh. PAUL GARBER/WFDD FILE

Rockingham County Republicans have appointed Reece Pyrtle to fill the unexpired term of the late State Rep. Jerry Carter in House District 65.

Pyrtle is well known in Rockingham County. Before being elected as a county commissioner in 2016, he was the chief of police in Eden. 

A resident of Stoneville and native of Rockingham County, Pyrtle was re-elected to the board last year.

Carter died earlier this month at Duke Hospital in Durham from complications after surgery to treat a rare gastrointestinal disorder. He was 66.

Carter was a longtime Baptist pastor. He was elected to the state House in 2018 and won a second two-year term in 2020. 

House District 65 comprises most of Rockingham County except for the Madison-Mayodan area.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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