Forrest Hite News Today

Five of the six GOP-endorsed candidates in the City Council and School Board races earned seats Tuesday night.

Four of the councils seven seats are on the ballot.

Across Southwest and Central Virginia, people are voting in 12 contested races for seats in the House of Delegates.

Hurst, the incumbent and a Democrat, is looking to win his third term as Republican Jason Ballard opposes him on the ballot.

Katreena Hite Katreena Hite, a native of Gwinn, has been named one of three Northern Michigan University Social Work Department 2020-21 outstanding graduating graduate students. She will earn a Master of Social Work degree Saturday. Her concentration is in public policy and administration. Hite earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from NMU in 2007. Following a few years in Kansas City, she returned to Marquette County to serve the community as a social worker and change agent. She pla...

Six Republicans are vying to become the nominee Thursday to try to succeed their late partymate in the 38th state Senate District. Sen. Ben Chafin, who was 60, died from complications related to COVID-19 on New Year’s Day. He was in his third term as senator after taking the seat in 2014 in a special election following the resignation of former Democratic senator Phillip Puckett. Chafin won again in 2015 when he ran unopposed in the primary and general elections, before winning for the fin...