With primaries over, November's municipal elections are set

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published October 7, 2021 at 3:07 PM EDT

Some North Carolina cities and towns held elections this week ahead of the November 2 municipal elections.

Burlington voters pared down a field of five candidates for mayor in this week's nonpartisan primary. Incumbent Mayor Ian Baltutis held a small lead over challenger Jim Butler, a city council member. Both will advance to the general election.

It was a different story in the Jamestown primary, where incumbent Mayor Lynn Montgomery topped the field with 75 percent of the vote.

Most of the state's local governments will have elections on November 2. A few races were postponed until next year because of delays in the census. That includes the races for Greensboro's mayor and city council.

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Paul Garber

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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