The village of Piketon, Ohio, which borders the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site, last week re-elected longtime Mayor Billy Spencer to a new term.
Spencer beat out council member David Isaac Dixon 377-to-244 in the Nov. 7 election, according to results from the Ohio Board of Elections. The victory will provide Spencer, who worked for 30 years at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant site, with a sixth term as mayor, according to the Pike County News Watchman newspaper.
Spencer, who has been active on various Portsmouth Site issues, has been mayor since 2004. Dixon, who joined the village council in 2022, is a Piketon High School graduate who returned to his hometown after earning a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University.
