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Hubert Gilkey III nominated Nichols and Baldwin seconded the appointment. Both Nichols and Updike won unanimous endorsement.
Nichols’ appointment ends the four-year term of Robert Eastham, a term that has been plagued by controversy.
In 1979, when Eastham was named to the board, appointments were made by a three-member board of electoral trustees. The electoral trustees — 25-year member and chairman C.E. Johnson, Jr., Christine Johnston and Granville Eastham (both named earlier that year to their posts by the circuit court judge) — held an advertised public hearing on
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