30-year old wins director’s seat

After two days of balloting, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative announced the results of a two-way contest for an open Anderson county seat on its board of directors.  The ballot count added up to victory for Will Anderson, a row crop farmer.  Anderson tallied 4,296 votes; his competitor, Paul Brown, the long time news media broadcaster and photojournalist, received 2,564 votes.  All Blue Ridge customers, regardless of where they live inside Blue Ridge service territory, were eligible to have voted.  Those who voted did so without having to exit their vehicles.  The voting was conducted in a drive-up at Blue Ridge’s in Oconee and Pickens.  A Liberty customer, Roy Fowler, was declared the winner of the annual meeting’s grand prize:  a 2015 Chevy Silverado pickup truck.