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BENSON – The Benson Board of Commissioners have selected fellow commissioner Dr. Max Raynor to be the successor to the late Mayor Jerry Medlin.
The Board made the unanimous decision during a special called meeting Monday night citing Dr. Raynor’s experience as commissioner and familiarity with ongoing town projects that the Board has overseen during Mayor Medlin’s tenure.
Dr. Raynor has been a Benson Commissioner since 2012. He is an optometrist and opened his first practice — Professional Eye Care — in Roseboro in 1986, followed by a second practice in Benson in 1988, and most recently another expansion in Clinton in 2003. He also served as the 2007 president of the North Carolina State Optometric Society and remains an active member…