Sharp to be next chairman, Jones keeps seat on school board

In what appears to have been straight party-line voting in Tuesday’s general election, Putnam County went solidly for Republican candidates by a 3-1 margin. The total turnout – 10,242 ballots cast – among the three voting methods (advance, absentee and in-person) came to 64.58 percent of the county’s 15,859 eligible voters. Translation: despite all the TV attack ads ...