Incumbents re-elected to the Blue Ridge board

Veteran members of the board of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative have been returned to the policymaking board of the electric power supplier.  By outpolling Heath Haskett, Jimmy Dodgens was declared a winner; as was Frank Looper in defending his seat against challenger Jason Ambrose Dennis.  Both Dodgens and Looper represent Pickens County.  Blue Ridge’s two-day drive-thru annual meeting registered 9,063 members.  The tallies in each of the two contested director elections are not disclosed in the Blue Ridge announcement. A Walhalla Blue Ridge customer won the grand prize in the annual meeting: a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado pickup.