Lewis, two incumbents elected to city school board  

Published 9:13 am Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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City voters did not skip over the school board in Tuesday’s general election, returning two incumbents and giving high votes to a newcomer to fill the three open seats.

Elizabethton dentist Robert Wayne Lewis Jr. was the top vote-getter with 3,367 votes, while incumbent Phil Isaacs received 3,182 votes, and incumbent Jamie Bass Schaff garnered 2,944 votes.

The new school board members will be sworn in at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at City Hall, 136 S. Sycamore St.

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The next regularly scheduled school board meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Mack Pierce Board Room of the Elizabethton Board of Education, 804 S. Watauga Ave.