New Board

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. ? Lori Stilley, Cheryl Huff and Delores Milstead, once described as a "team" on the Jefferson County Board of Education, were defeated by Pete Dougherty, Mariland Dunn Lee, Gary Kable and Scott Sudduth Tuesday night in the race for four seats on the board, according to complete, but unofficial results. With all 30 precincts reporting, Stilley had 1,003 votes, Huff had 992 votes and Milstead had 862 votes. Dougherty was first with 4,208 votes, while Lee received 3,971 votes, Kable received 3,363 and Sudduth got 3,821 votes, according to returns.

The December meeting of the Leitersburg Ruritan Club was held in recognition of the volunteers who worked during the peach festival in appreciation of their services and to install incoming officers. Volunteers included Troop 108, sponsored by the club, ladies from St. Paul's Lutheran Church and other volunteers from the local area. At the meeting, the club was presented five gold awards from National Ruritan by Robert Markel, past zone governor. The awards were for social development, business and professions, citizenship and patriotism, environment and public service.

WASHINGTON COUNTY - Incumbent Washington County Commissioner John C. Munson lost his bid Tuesday for another four years on the board. Munson, a Republican who has served one term, was soundly defeated in Tuesday's general election, according to complete but unofficial results. The two other Republican incumbents, William J. Wivell and James F. Kercheval, were re-elected. John F. Barr and Terry Baker, both Republicans, and Democrat Kristin B. Aleshire, a current Hagerstown City Councilman, also won election.

HAGERSTOWN - The first time Washington County Circuit Judge Frederick C. Wright III presided over the swearing-in of a new board of County Commissioners was in 1986. The board consisted of four Democrats and one Republican, he recalled. The tables were reversed Tuesday - Wright's final time officiating the ceremony - as four Republicans and a Democrat took an oath to serve the county's residents "diligently and faithfully. " Wright, an administrative judge, said he plans to step down by the next election.

HAGERSTOWN - The day after losing a close election to keep her seat on the Washington County Board of Education, Jacqueline B. Fischer said she blamed only herself. "I didn't gather a campaign committee around me," she said. "I worked the polls myself. I probably didn't have enough signs out. I felt that I did well at the forums, but I guess it just wasn't enough visibility. "Newcomers Ruth Anne Callaham and William H. Staley were voted into office, along with incumbent Paul W. Bailey.

Hagerstown-based National Little League on Sunday brought its membership together for the first time since the October election of a new board of directors. cont. from front page After a season of turmoil in which the membership dissolved the board, 10 new board members were elected Oct. 24, leaving five seats vacant. The new board introduced its officers, gave an update of the league's finances and reviewed its proposed constitution Sunday at the Funkstown Moose Lodge.

By JULIE E. GREENE Staff Writer Washington County's tourism information center in Breezewood, Pa., closed Monday and employees there were laid off, officials said. Five Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau employees, including the three part-time employees at the information center, accepted a layoff offer from the county, according to Ron Stansbury, tourism bureau board president. The information center, which opened in 1986, will remain closed unless the Washington County Commissioners hire people to work there, Stansbury said.

More than 150 members of the business community turned out Tuesday for breakfast and a look at Washington County's future at the annual "State of the County" meeting. As Commissioners' President Greg Snook noted, the new board has been in office only eight weeks, too little time, it would seem, for the honeymoon to be over yet. To give the commissioners their due, however, judging from Snook's presentation, the new board seems to be proceeding in a cautious and business-like manner.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. ? Lori Stilley, Cheryl Huff and Delores Milstead, once described as a "team" on the Jefferson County Board of Education, were defeated by Pete Dougherty, Mariland Dunn Lee, Gary Kable and Scott Sudduth Tuesday night in the race for four seats on the board, according to complete, but unofficial results. With all 30 precincts reporting, Stilley had 1,003 votes, Huff had 992 votes and Milstead had 862 votes. Dougherty was first with 4,208 votes, while Lee received 3,971 votes, Kable received 3,363 and Sudduth got 3,821 votes, according to returns.

By the end of this week, 1,200 West Virginia physicians must decide which of their colleagues to trust with their financial and professional futures. We applaud those doctors willing to put in the time and effort to help solve the state's malpractice crisis. How will they do that? By serving on a board that will create a physicians' mutual insurance company that will provide malpractice insurance for doctors faced with rates they can't afford - or who can't find coverage at any price.