{"id":15412,"date":"2025-12-04T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-new-montezuma-cortez-school-board-members-sworn-in\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:02","slug":"five-new-montezuma-cortez-school-board-members-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-new-montezuma-cortez-school-board-members-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new Montezuma-Cortez school board members sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f802e94a-516d-5882-913d-d7e288294908&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"878\" height=\"585\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board after Tuesday\u2019s swearing-in ceremony. From left: Barbara Mate, Lara Maria Blair, Vice President Laura DeWitt, President Joshua Shumway, Justine Bayles, Secretary Mike Lynch and Treasurer Jason Hall. (Montezuma-Cortez School District)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board after Tuesday\u2019s swearing-in ceremony. From left: Barbara Mate, Lara Maria Blair, Vice President Laura DeWitt, President Joshua Shumway, Justine Bayles, Secretary Mike Lynch and Treasurer Jason Hall. (Montezuma-Cortez School District)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Five new members joined the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board Tuesday during a special meeting where officers were selected.<\/p>\n<p>The new members, elected in the Nov.4 election and certified by the Montezuma County Clerk and Recorder, are Lara Maria Blair of District A,  Barbara Mate of District B, Joshua Shumway of District D, Justine Bayles of District E and Laura DeWitt of District F.<\/p>\n<p>They join returning members Mike Lynch and Jason Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Shumway was elected president, DeWitt vice president, Lynch secretary and Hall treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s first regular meeting is Dec. 16 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board after Tuesday\u2019s swearing-in ceremony. From left: Barbara Mate, Lara Maria Blair, Vice President Laura DeWitt, President Joshua Shumway, Justine Bayles, Secretary Mike Lynch and Treasurer Jason Hall. (Montezuma-Cortez School District) Five new members joined the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board Tuesday during a special meeting where officers were selected. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,266,28,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-election","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19644,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions\/19644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}