CONWAY — In what many consider an upset, Carroll County commissioner candidate Harold Parker defeated former County Commissioner Amanda Bevard in Tuesday’s Republican primary race for the District 3.
In District 3, incumbent Republican Bill Nelson (R-Brookfield) decided not to run.
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