{"id":16354,"date":"2025-09-26T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/league-of-women-voters-to-host-school-board-candidate-forum-in-october\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:07","slug":"league-of-women-voters-to-host-school-board-candidate-forum-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/league-of-women-voters-to-host-school-board-candidate-forum-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Women Voters to host school board candidate forum in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 administration building.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The League of Women Voters will host a forum for the Montezuma-Cortez school board candidates Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-8 p.m. at the Montezuma County Annex, 107 N. Chestnut St., to allow parents, guardians and community members to meet the school board candidates and hear why they are running.<\/p>\n

Elected members will join Mike Lynch (District G). Paul Beckler (District B) is not seeking reelection, and board President Sheri Noyes (District F) will be term-limited in November.<\/p>\n

The candidates for District A are Lara Maria Blair and Tiffany Cheney. Barbara Mate is the only candidate for District B, and Leland Collins, a current board member, and Dr. Joshua Shumway are vying for the seat in District D.<\/p>\n

Three candidates are running for one seat in each of the remaining two districts. District E candidates are Justine Bayles, Zane Kuenzler and Ed Rice, a current board member. District F\u2019s candidates are Ricky Carver, Laura DeWitt and Erik Quiroz.<\/p>\n

The event will feature an introduction to the candidates followed by a question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n

The public is encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n

The Journal <\/em>recently published a Q&A with candidates. It is at bit.ly\/RE1race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was updated on 9\/30\/25 to show that the forum is being hosted by the League of Women Voters and to reflect that there 11 candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 candidates running for the school board <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15994,"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-16354","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\/16354","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=16354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77189,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions\/77189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16354"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}