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The 2023 municipal election in the town of Pink Hill, North Carolina, took place last night, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. While the mayoral race proceeded smoothly, the commissioners race is too close to call, with only two votes separating the two candidates.
Neuse News Publisher BJ Murphy interviews 2023 Municipal Election candidate Mayor Yvonne Deatherage.
As of last week, William Gray is no longer Pink Hill’s Town Attorney. Gray, a lawyer from Deep Run, was appointed by Mayor Yvonne Deatherage in April, and voted on by Commissioners Penny Murphy and James Quinn with Pete Fantini as a dissenting vote.
The Lenoir County Board of Elections held an official hearing at a meeting on Thursday to address Mayor Yvonne Deatherage’s petition against mayoral candidate Mike Horne who is her opponent in the upcoming 2023 municipal election.
The Pink Hill mayoral election has encountered another hurdle as an election protest has been filed, again challenging the residency of mayoral candidate Michael Horne. The protest comes after a previous challenge to Horne's eligibility was dismissed by the Lenoir County Board of Elections.
The Lenoir County Board of Elections convened its regular meeting on September 7, 2023, at the Elections Office, as part of their monthly schedule of meetings on the first Thursday of each month at 5 pm. The board members include Courtney M. Patterson (Chairman), Ella Clark (Secretary), Tommy Pharo, Marietta Jenkins, and Lucinda Minges.
On August 17th, current Pink Hill Mayor Yvonne Deatherage, who was appointed by the town commissioners to replace Mike Hill, filed a formal complaint with the Lenoir County Board of Elections challenging the mayoral candidacy of Michael Horne. The Board of Elections is scheduled to meet on Thursday, September 7 at 5:00 pm at the Elections Office.
In Pink Hill, a vote may not always count. Like 56% of the voters in North Carolina who wanted voter ID in 2018, the majority of Pink Hill voters who said yes to the Mixed Beverage Referendum had their power taken away.
The town of Pink Hill held a Mixed Beverage Referendum during the November 2022 election, which passed with 65 votes for and 42 against. During Tuesday’s Pink Hill Commissioners meeting, Mayor Yvonne Deatherage announced the entire Mixed Beverage Referendum vote was invalid because Pink Hill had not met the requirements to hold the vote.
In an email letter obtained by Neuse News to Mayor Deatherage from North Carolina ABC Commission Assistant General Counsel Renee C. Metz, she stated, “it appears the Mixed Beverages election held in November 2022 was not authorized by statute.”
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Neuse News Publisher BJ Murphy has "A Conversation with... Pink Hill Mayor Yvonne Deatherage". They discuss the recent challenges in Pink Hill and how she hopes to move forward.
Following a contentious meeting in October that resulted in Mayor Mike Hill resigning, along with the clerk and the assistant clerk of Pink Hill, a meeting was held on Tuesday night to select a mayor to finish out the term Hill was serving.
Pink Hill’s first Beautiful Queen, ten-year-old Ella Grace White is working to help incarcerated women in two North Carolina prisons by collecting soap bars to include in hygiene Christmas Red Boxes that will be sent to them.
