Catoosa primary results show Larry Black and Gary Sisk will face each other in a runoff election for sheriff.
With all precincts reporting, Black, the former Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force commander, received 43.5 percent of the votes, while Sisk, the Catoosa County Chief Deputy, took 22 percent of the votes.
In other races, all the incumbent county commissioners won — Keith Greene, Jeff Long and James Cutler.
Magistrate Judge Johnny Gass won with 50.9 percent of the votes, while one of his challengers. Brad Palmer, received 30 percent.
A 1 percent transportation tax referendum was voted down with 57 percent of voters going against it. But Catoosa results don’t decide if the sales tax goes into effect.
But votes in the 15-county Northwest Georgia district that includes Catoosa shows the tax is losing with 66 percent of votes against it with 25 percent of precincts reporting.
Joy Lukachick is a crime reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Since 2009, she's covered breaking news, high-profile trials, stories of lost lives and of regained hope and done investigative work. Raised near the Bayou, Joy’s hometown is along the outskirts of Baton Rouge, La. She has a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Joy was a staff writer for the Daily Reveille. When Joy isn't chasing down ...
