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School board races needed at north Platte and West Platte

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
January 24, 2020
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Two local school districts will not need school board elections, but competitive races will take place at West Platte and North Platte.

Here is a summary of the various situations now that the candidate filing deadline has passed.

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Three candidates, two of them incumbents, filed for three open spots on the Platte County R-3 Board of Education. The ‘three candidates for three positions’ means the district will not need to hold a school board election.

Incumbents Sharon Sherwood and Buffy Smith filed for re-election. Newcomer Bobby Vann also filed. Gwendolyn Cooke, currently on the board, did not file for re-election.

Vicki Diggs, school board secretary, said:

“Since only three candidates have filed for three positions, there will be no election required, and accordingly, the board members who will be sworn in on April 16 at 5:30 p.m. will be Sharon Sherwood, Buffy Smith, and Bobby Vann.”

At Park Hill, the three incumbents–Janice Bolin, Bart Klein and Scott Monsees–were the only candidates to file for the three open spots, meaning Park Hill–like R-3–will not need to hold a school board election this year.

Five candidates filed for three open spots at West Platte R-2. They are Dr. Matthew A. Parker, Antonio John Cutolo-Ring (incumbent), Shane E. Bartee (incumbent), Ronald R. Rowe (incumbent), Dr. Phillip Pattison.

An election will be needed at the North Platte R-1 Board of Education, where there are four candidates for three open spots. Seats up for election this year are currently held by Bennett French, Kevin Vernon, and Stephanie Snook. Filing for the openings were incumbent Bennett French and newcomers Jeffrey Scott Hinton, Jennifer Hernandez and James Kubly.

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Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley is owner/editor/publisher of the Platte County Landmark. Foley has been on the news beat in Platte County with The Landmark for 38 years, specializing in local government issues and accountability journalism. He has penned multiple award-winning investigative pieces. He provides weekly observations and editorial commentary in his Between the Lines column and serves as host of Landmark Live, a light-hearted videocast featuring newsmakers and events in the Northland. During his time at the helm of The Landmark, the newspaper has been awarded on multiple occasions for General Excellence in the Missouri Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. In 2016, Foley won the Tom and Pat Gish Award, a national honor given by the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky for displaying courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. A big fan of the Chiefs and Royals, Foley resides in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

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