Polling is next Tuesday

School board race, primaries set

Voters will select three members of the Wilkes County Board of Education and help narrow fields in several other races next Tuesday.

Three seats are available on the board of education. In that non-partisan race, incumbents Randall Holbrook and Kirk Walker will face challengers Lyn Ashley, Julie Baird, Douglas Brown, Keith Erwin Deveraux and Judith Walsh.

Five Republican candidates will vie for three spots in the Wilkes County Commissioner’s election in November. The candidates include incumbents Jerry Sidden and Charles Sink will face challengers Fay Byrd, Keith Elmore and Robert Glen.

In the race for 94^th N.C. House District GOP challenger David Sprinkle will contest incumbent Tracy Walker.

Bonnie Bentley Martin and Ricky Anderson will challenge incumbent Republican Rick Woodruff in the primary for Wilkes Register of Deeds.

In the 5^th U.S. Congressional District, a Democratic primary will see Jim Harrell, Jr., Roger Kirkman and Andrew Winfrey vie for the top vote.

Eight candidates will square off in the Republican primary for the 5^th U.S. Congressional District. Those candidates who hope to fill the seat of Richard Burr (who is running for U.S. Senate) are Ed Broyhill, Joe Byrd of Wilkes, Virginia Foxx, Jay Helvey, Edward Powell, Vernon Robinson, Nathan Tabor and David Vanhoy.

Burr will face GOP opponents John Ross Hendrix and Albert Lee Wiley, Jr. in Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

Both Republican and Democrat primaries will be settled in the state’s gubernatorial race.

Incumbent Democrat Gov. Mike Easley is being challenged by Rickey Kipfer. GOP candidates Patrick Ballantine, Dan Barrett, Bill Cobey, George Little, Fern Shubert and Richard Vinroot will also compete.

Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.