{"id":41679,"date":"2022-03-15T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candidate-forum-for-mancos-town-board-election-is-tonight\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","slug":"candidate-forum-for-mancos-town-board-election-is-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candidate-forum-for-mancos-town-board-election-is-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate forum for Mancos Town Board election is tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2d836c86-6e6d-47f2-b643-3efc4cd74a94&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1262\" alt=\"The town of Mancos announced Monday that more than $47,000 will be awarded among Mancos-based small businesses for the first round of the Mancos Cares Coronavirus Relief Fund.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The town of Mancos announced Monday that more than $47,000 will be awarded among Mancos-based small businesses for the first round of the Mancos Cares Coronavirus Relief Fund.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos Student Council invites students and the public to attend a Mancos Board of Trustee candidate forum tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a municipal election on April 5 for three open town board seats. Terms are up for Fred Brooks, Betsy Harrison and Brent McWhirter.<\/p>\n<p>Four candidates are competing for three open seats.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks and Harrison are running for reelection. New candidates are Nicholas Manning and Richard Tokar.<\/p>\n<p>The format allows the candidates introduce themselves and give a short speech about their plans serving as board trustee, said organizer and student council member Haylie Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>Then it will open up to questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The student council decided to host the forum in an effort to encourage input from younger people, Higgins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it is important for students to get more involved because we are the future of the town,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Council organizes event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679","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=41679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85058,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679\/revisions\/85058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41679"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}