The Port Ludlow and Chimacum fire districts will never again have to ask voters to approve an Emergency Medical Services levy.
That’s because both districts won overwhelming support of their permanent EMS levies in the primary election Tuesday.
Fire District No. 1 (Chimacum) won support from 81 percent of the voters, 1,688 yes votes to 401 no votes.
Fire District No. 3 (Port Ludlow) gained support from 86 percent of ballots cast, 1,730 yes to 276 no.
In the only public office race on the primary ballot, voters in Fire Protection District No. 5 (Gardiner area) picked Position 1 incumbent commissioner Randy Okerman and challenger Barb Knoepfle.
Okerman received 87 votes, or 46 percent, of the 189 ballots cast in the three-way race.
Knoepfle got 72 votes, or 38 percent.
She will oppose Okerman on the Nov. 6 general election ballot for the four-year position.
Richard Vaughan got 27 votes, 14 percent of the primary vote.
