Collier leads Benham in R-E Board race

REARDAN-Lane Collier had a comfortable lead over Brian Benham in a race for the Reardan-Edwall School Board Seat No. 4 after the first election count Tuesday, Nov. 7. Collier leads 392 votes to 280.

Both men are running for their first appointment to the Board.

Collier, a locomotive engineer, had just a slim 126-114 lead in Lincoln County over Benham, an IT service desk manager in Spokane Valley. But the margin was wider in Spokane County, where both candidates live.

There, Collier had 392 votes to Benham's 280.

Elsewhere in the greater Reardan-Edwall area, incumbent Jerry Dougherty had a lops...