10 candidates to vie for 4 school board seats in November
by Sara Swanson
The election for Manchester Community School board of education will indeed be a contested election in November, two actually. The school board positions have been split into two races, one race for three 4 year-term seats and one race for one two-year term seat. Although no one had filed a week before the deadline, it turns out many candidates were waiting until the last week to file with six candidates now running for the three 4-year seats and four candidates now running for the 2-year seat.
Two incumbents are running to retain their seats, current school board president, Sandra Wiitala and Christine Deacons. Wiitala was elected in 2022 and began serving on the board in 2023. Deacons was appointed last August to replace Sarah Roth who resigned after being hired by the district which created a conflict of interest. The two candidates not running for re-election are Rebecca Harvey who has been serving on the board since 2015 and Michael Tindall who has been serving on the board since 2019.
Candidates for the 4-year term seats include Wiitala, Deacons, Christopher M. Caron, Michelle Champagne, James Tobias, and Joseph Walsh. Candidates for the 2-year term seat include Heather Ramsey, Celia Creger, Chelsea Kapuniai, and Logan Caszatt.
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