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Outgoing Mayor Kincaid administers the oath to successor John Woods Tuesday night. With Mayor Woods are wife Diana and daughter Kristin. (Bill Giduz photo)
Davidson inaugurated new Mayor John Woods and a new Town Board Tuesday night in a Town Hall ceremony that included tearful send-offs to retiring Mayor Randy Kincaid and commissioners Bruce McMillen and [...]

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The Town Board will have a limited agenda at its monthly meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m., where the main business will be to welcome newly elected members and honor those retiring. After 28 years in town government, Mayor Randy Kincaid is stepping down, as are board members Cary Johnston and Bruce McMillen.

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Mayor-elect John Woods says he’s ready to get back to work on town issues after a hard-fought campaign that he said was unlike any the town has ever seen. DavidsonNews.net’s David Boraks interviewed Mayor-elect Woods outside Town Hall Tuesday about the vote, the new Town Board and the need for better communication and regional cooperation. [...]

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North Mecklenburg voters came out strongly in support of keeping the county’s 1/2-cent sales tax for transit and in favor of the $516 million in school bonds, signaling support for efforts to deal with growth in the region. The school bond vote will have an immediate effect on North Meck, providing a new high [...]

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Davidson voters elected John Woods (photo) as mayor Tuesday, giving him 1,521 votes or 67 percent of the vote with all the ballots counted, according unofficial results from the Mecklenburg Board of Elections. William E. Jackson Jr. received 733 votes or 32 percent.
In the Board of Commissioners race, incumbents Margo Williams and Evan Webster [...]

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DavidsonNews.net offers a printable guide to the 2007 town board and mayoral elections. Included are our previously published profiles of Town Board candidates, based on questionnaires they submitted, as well as our profiles of the two mayoral candidates. It’s a PDF file, formatted to print on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper.  (Requires Adobe [...]

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Davidson College students are getting involved in this fall’s town election, hosting candidate forums and following candidates through the student newspaper, The Davidsonian. Meanwhile, last minute endorsements are coming in for some of the candidates.

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Tuesday, Nov. 6, is election day in Davidson and Mecklenburg County, but same-day registration ends Saturday at 1 p.m. The ballot this year includes important votes for local office and the school board, along with four bonds/issues votes. See below for our election primer.

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One of the key issues in this fall’s election is the August decision by Davidson and Mooresville to purchase the former Adelphia cable TV/internet service. Evan Webster, a Davidson commissioner who is running for re-election, has provided a written response to questions voters and candidates are raising. Mr. Webster has been studying the issue [...]

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By DAVID BORAKS
It was probably inevitable that negative campaigning would eventually creep into local politics in Davidson. Is it here to stay, or is it something unique to the personalities of this year’s mayoral race?

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