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Mercer County Board Race Ends MCSPA Ambition Talk
Harold Brewster of Bluefield and Ben Faulkner of Princeton won in the Mercer County Board of Education race on Tuesday. Their defeats of Lackey backed candidates, Maureen Brown and Dick Harrison, ended MCSPA hopes of controlling the five member board. Brown and Harrison finished seventh and eighth as the ninth candidate withdrew. The outcome favors a cooperative approach for the new board, with Brewster and Faulkner signaling openness to Lackey's guidance before taking office on January 1, 1981.
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Harold Brewster
Bluefield
Ben Faulkner
Princeton
Board of Education
Allen Lackey
Mercer County School Preservation Association
MCSPA
Lackey
Jim Oxley
School Preservation Group
Maureen Brown
Dick Harrison
Lackey and
Oxley
Brown
Harrison
Brewster
Faulkner
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
B of E
Mercer County
Democratic Party
Don Hare
E.R. “Shorty
Simons
Hare