Ellyne Fields News Today

The event has become a chamber tradition, right down to the tree stump candidates use to deliver their one-minute speeches.

Judy Vandergrift says her managerial and budgeting experience is what made her the best person to fill a vacant seat on the Lynn Haven Commission.

In a special meeting on Friday morning, commissioners voted to appoint Judy Vandergrift to temporarily fill Seat 4 on the commission.

HOA members are installing a high-tech tool typically used by police in hopes of preventing and even solving crime in their communities.

According to the report, the 61-year-old former school principal, who is now set in a runoff election Tuesday, had been arrested for domestic violence against her husband about four years ago. The report described Fields in an irate state, having “intentionally hit” her husband, Francis Fields, and “picked the computer up and threw it outside, breaking it some more.” She also was charged with malicious mischief.   The incident happened in Spokane, Washington. In an intervi...

LYNN HAVEN — Lynn Haven voters have spoken. After all three races went to a runoff, voters took to the polls Tuesday to choose their new mayor and two commissioners.   Receiving 1,481 votes (50.46%), Jesse Nelson was elected Lynn Haven’s mayor, defeating Ellyne Fields by 27 votes. Jamie Warrick was elected to Seat 3 with 1,943 votes (66.61%) and incumbent Judy Tinder will retain her Seat 4 after garnering 1,730 votes (59.43%).   “I’m honored and humbled by the fact that the c...

/ Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson won the Lynn Haven mayoral special runoff election on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson will become Lynn Havens first mayor since former Mayor Margo Andersons arrest and subsequent resignation nearly a year ago. Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson won Lynn Havens mayoral race by a thin margin after Tuesdays special runoff election. Nelson eked out a victory against fellow first-time candidate Ellyne Fields, winning by less than 30 votes. Fi...

/ Lynn Haven voters may cast their ballot in the special runoff elections for mayor and city commissioner at the towns Senior Center on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Lynn Haven voters are electing their next mayor Tuesday—almost a year after former mayor Margo Anderson stepped down following her arrest on public corruption charges. Bay County Elections Supervisor Mark Andersen says no candidate in last month’s mayoral and city commission races got enough votes to win outright — triggering three...

LYNN HAVEN — The mayoral seat that has been left vacant for more than 100 days after the former mayor Margo Anderson was indicted along with the former city manager, city attorney, and community services director on dozens of fraud charges involving the mishandling of federal emergency dollars in the early hours following Hurricane Michael, is now being vied for by three new faces to the Lynn Haven Commission, each promising to restore the integrity of what it means to hold public office. ...