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The Smithville Area Chamber of Commerce held its 98th annual Chamber Awards Banquet on May 15. Though we had planned to hold our banquet outside in front of the new building, Mother Nature had other plans and we quickly moved from our outdoor set up to indoors at the Recreation Center in just over one hour. Many thanks to Smithville Recreation Center Director Ashley Garrison for accommodating our last-minute change of venue! Once set up and ready to go, we kicked off with live music by the Musikatz, a local four-piece jazz band. Dinner was served by Catering by Chabot, a delicious combination of steak kabobs and chicken cordon bleu, appetizers by Olde World Bakery and dessert by Courtney’s Cakes. Many thanks to Brown Distributing for the beverage donation. Many thanks also to Doug’s Plumbing, our banquet title sponsor. The live auction, with Stuart Burns as auctioneer, was made possible by donations from LCRA, Bruce and Sallie Blalock, Mayor Joanna and Mike Morgan, Jeannie Ra
Incumbent City Council member Bill Gordon won reelection to his Place 3 seat Saturday, while Tom Etheredge and Stan Gerdes were elected to their first terms on the City Council, according to the unofficial results.
The Smithville council election had contested races for the Place 2, Place 3 and Place 4 seats. Incumbent Sharon Foerster ran unopposed and sailed to reelection to the Place 1 seat.
Incumbent Mayor Joanna Morgan won election to the city s highest elected office against challenger Jerry Callaghan.
In the Place 2 race, Etheredge won election with 445 votes, or 62%, defeating Betty McBryar, who received 270 votes, or 38%.
In the Place 3 election, Gordon, who has served on the council for six years, including as mayor pro tem, received 435 votes, or 59%, and fended off a challenge by Charles Diltz, who received 301 votes, or 41%.
Elgin council: three contested seats
$183.7M Bastrop school bond, council seats to be decided
For Bastrop County election results and vote count totals, please visit our election results page.
Gibson, Maldonado, Callahan elected to Elgin City Council
Three seats were up for grabs in the Elgin City Council with Arthur Gibson III, Skyler Maldonado and Matthew Callahan winning those elections, according to the unofficial results Saturday night.
In the race for one of the Ward 1 positions, Arthur Gibson III defeated Sarah Gudenkauf. Gibson received 66 votes compared to Gudenkauf s 47.
Gibson, a third-generation resident of Ward 1, unsuccessfully ran for election to a Ward 1 seat in November against Elgin Mayor Pro Tem Jessica Bega.