Races Contested
For Mayor And 2
Alderman Seats
BY TOM YANCEY
STAFF WRITER
With the Thursday noon deadline now past, the June 1 Greeneville municipal election election has a contested race for mayor, and five candidates vying for two alderman seats in the 2nd Ward.
The at-large seat on the Greeneville Board of Education has only one candidate, incumbent member Mike Hollowell.
Mayor Laraine King faces a re-election challenge from Alderman W.T. Daniels.
King, of 303 North Main St., a former restaurateur, served on the Greene County Commission from 1990 to 1994, represented the 1st Ward as an alderman from 2003 to 2008, and was elected Greeneville's first woman mayor in 2008.
Daniels, who manages investment properties, won re-election to his ninth two-year term as Greeneville alderman in 2008.
He is chairman of the Greeneville Regional Planning Commission and chairman of the Greeneville Light & Power System board of directors.
2ND WARD ALDERMAN
In the 2nd Ward Alderman race, where two seats are open, Alderman Sarah E.T. Webster faces former Greeneville Mayor Darrell Bryan, as well as newcomers Brian N.F. Bragdon, Duncan Cates Cave and Phillip Keith Lowrey, who is also running for the Greene County Commission.
Webster, 67, has been an alderman for 20 years. She is chairman of the Greene County-Greeneville Regional Solid Waste Planning Board and the Greeneville Historic Zoning Commission and a member of the Greeneville Parks & Recreation Board.
Bryan, 59, served as Greeneville's mayor from 2002 to 2008. He was defeated for re-election by Mayor King.
Bryan Management Inc., which he heads, operates the Niswonger Performing Arts Center, and he is the NPAC's executive director.
Bragdon, 46, is general transportation manager for the Walmart Distribution Center. He served on the town's civil service board from 2004 to 2007.
This is the first run for elective office for attorney Cave, who is 32.
Lowrey, 58, is a retired college teacher, accountant and private businessman. He has run for office several times but has never been elected here.
Hollowell, 47, is the executive director of the Greeneville YMCA and a former Tusculum College coach. He was appointed to the Greeneville Board of Education when member Ray Smith resigned before the end of his term, and was elected to the at-large seat in 2006.
Greene County Administrator of Elections said any of the candidates who have qualified have until Thursday, March 25, at noon, to withdraw and have their names removed from the ballot.
The Greeneville election is the only one scheduled for June 1.
