Susan Conniry continued to widen her lead over incumbent John Lynn for the Ocean Shores City Council Position 1 seat, while Lisa Griebel retained her Position 3 seat.

Also in Ocean Shores, former finance director Steven Ensley won in his first bid for council and former councilman Bob Crumpacker won the Position 7 seat. With the third batch of results released Thursday afternoon by the Grays Harbor County Auditor from the Nov. 7 general election, it was clear that any remaining ballots to be counted would not change the outcomes.

In the closely contested Position 1 race, Conniry as of Thursday afternoon had 1,124 votes (52.18 percent), with Lynn garnering 1,030 votes (47.82 percent) in his bid for a third term on the seven-member City Council. Precinct vote totals show Conniry outpolled Lynn in six of Ocean Shores’ seven precincts.

For Position 3, appointed council member Griebel (1,078 votes/53.37 percent) was leading Canterbury Inn manager Shannon Rubin (942 votes/46.63 percent).

For the Position 5 contest, Ensley (1,130 votes/56.3 percent) was leading former councilman Randy Scott (877 votes/43.7 percent).

For Position 7, former council member Crumpacker (1,156 votes/57.28 percent) was leading political newcomer Carlos Roldan (862 votes/42.7 percent).

The Grays Harbor County Auditor’s Office has said a final ballot total update will be at 4 p.m. on Nov. 14. County-wide, voter turnout was 34.85 percent for the general election.

In the North Beach School District, all four candidates were running unopposed: Jeff Wilson for Director District 1 (two-year term); Linda Poplin for District 2, Rachel Carl for District 3, and Phil Hiam for District 5.

For North Beach area fire districts, two candidates were running for the Fire District No. 8 Position 1: Stephanie Allestad of Pacific Beach had a secure lead with 116 votes (58.2 percent) over Clinton Davis (83 votes/41.7 percent) of Moclips. For Fire District No. 7, Joseph Fernandez (80 votes/42 percent) was trailing Jim Richards (110 votes/57.8 percent) for Commissioner Position 3 (a four-year unexpired term), while Darrell Haglund had no opposition for Position 2 (6-year term).

Voters in Fire District 8 also were overwhelmingly approving an Emergency Medical Care and Ambulance Service Levy with 155 votes in favor (77.11 percent) to 46 opposed (22.8 percent).

In Taholah, all four candidates for the Taholah School Board were running unopposed: Merian C. Juneau for Position 2, Kathleen Law for Position 3, Tony M. Kramer for Position 4, and Gina James for Position 5.

For the Quinault School District, both Anita Blackburn and David Christiansen also were unopposed for the two school director positions.