Vogel, Richardson voted to hospital board; Heaberlin retains council seat
Lois Vogel and Gary Richardson will join the Skiff Medical Center board of trustees after receiving the most votes in the city election on Tuesday.
Vogel led the six candidates for the two open hospital board seats with 1,249 votes, Richardson followed with 767, earning the second seat on the board. The other candidates totaled, in order:
• Larry DeCook 667
• Bill Ward 383
• Lonnie White 349
• Linda Ross 305
In the contested Newton City Council race, Jeremy Heaberlin won with 1,312 votes to 453 for Harold Martin. Other city council candidates Mike Hansen, Dennis Julius and Steve Mullan were all unopposed and won handily.
Total voter turnout in Newton was 17.42 percent, a total auditor Dennis Parrott believed was buoyed by strong interest in the hospital board election.
See Wednesday's Newton Daily News for more from Tuesday's election.
