Incumbent Todd Gestrin led challenger Nichole Piland in a near-dead heat, separated by six votes, in the race for Lebanon Community School District’s Zone 5 seat as of noon Wednesday.
Gestrin had 1,314 votes (49.7%) and Piland had 1,308 (49.47%) with 22 write-in votes for others.
Tom Oliver, unchallenged in Zone 2, and Michael Martin, unchallenged for the Zone 3 seats, both had received over 98% of the votes cast for those voting areas.
That…