Kevin Craft Mayor Conetoe Has Resigned & Butch Lynch Mayor Pro-tem Will Be The Mayor Until

Kevin Craft Mayor Conetoe has resigned his post effective February 1st. Kevin was elected during the November Election along with new members Delane Bryant and Gerry Butch Lynch. The Conetoe Town Commission was a makeup of the Republican Mayor and 2 Republican Commissioners along with 2 Democratic Commissioners a White female a Black male. Kraft said in the December meeting when he and the council members were sworn in that he was going to do some good things for the town. However the town has been operating without a town clerk for months. Kraft nor the other 2 Republicans attended the January meeting. Kraft was said to have had COVID and the other 2 just didn’t show up for whatever reason. The 1st order of business should have been to advertise and to hire a town clerk so that the clerk could handle the town business such as paying bills, overseeing the staff and other duties of the clerk. On Tuesday February 8 during the regular monthly meeting the citizens will learn how the town will move forward.