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Election brings change to Boone's town government

Image courtesy of the Town of Boone.

Boone will have a new look to its town government following this week's municipal election. 

It was already clear Boone would get a new mayor when Rennie Brantz announced he would not seek reelection. He had served in the town government since the early 2000s. 

Brantz's decision to not campaign for a third term left Tim Futrelle as the only candidate for mayor on the ballot Tuesday. Futrelle previously served on the Watauga County Board of Commissioners.

There will also be three new town council members. Incumbents Virginia Roseman and Jon Dalton George were reelected. They'll be joined by Todd Carter, the top vote-getter in the race.

Also joining the board are two women who were elected to fill two unexpired seats on the council. Edie Tugman and Rebecca Nenow finished first and second respectively in the four-person race.

All results are complete but unofficial.

*Correction: In a previously broadcast version of this story, Tim Futrelle was identified as Todd Futrelle.

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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