BATON ROUGE - Voters elected a new representative to the school board Saturday.

Dawn Collins, a democrat, was elected to fill the seat left vacant when former school board member Tarvald Smith was elected to the Baton Rouge City Court last year.

Collins will serve for two years, the remaining time on Smith's seat, until a regular school board election in November 2018

There are nine members of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board.

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