A former Nowata City Clerk has been elected to the Nowata School Board. Tammy Maddux defeated Kendra Watson 148 votes to 125, which is 53.6% of the vote. Maddux says she has a number of things she'd like to accomplish as a board member.

Maddux says she wanted to serve on the NPS board but wanted to wait until after her children had graduated. She ran for an open school board seat in last year's election but lost to Dee Armstrong. Maddux served in her first school board meeting on Monday.