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NewGainesCountyPrecinct3CommissionerJoshEldertakes hisplaceacrossfromPrecinct2CommissionerDavidMurphree as the newly configured Court convenes last Wednesday. (Sentinel Photo/Sam Holbrooks) -
Judge Cindy Therwanger takes the county's gavel for the first time last Wednesday at the Gaines County Courthouse. (Sentinel Photo/Sam Holbrooks) -
As soon as Court is adjourned, new County Judge Cindy Therwanger attends to some unfinished business with County Auditor Esmerelda Felan. (Sentinel Photo/Sam Holbrooks)
The “peaceful transition of power” dictated by the Constitution was on display at the Gaines County Courthouse on Wednesday as newly sworn-in Cindy Therwhanger took up the County Judge’s gavel for the first time to begin her four-year term in the office.
Seated just to Therwhanger’s left was Benette McDonald, with whom, just a few short months earlier, she had been locked into an historic…
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