{"id":43480,"date":"2021-12-02T02:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-montezuma-cortez-dolores-school-board-members-sworn-in\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:53","slug":"new-montezuma-cortez-dolores-school-board-members-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-montezuma-cortez-dolores-school-board-members-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New Montezuma-Cortez, Dolores 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=456c537b-5711-598c-8921-76624756e7c5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1299\" alt=\"New Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 board members were sworn in Tuesday evening.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">New Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 board members were sworn in Tuesday evening.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Press Release<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>New school board members were elected in the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 and Dolores School District RE-4A.<\/p>\n<p>On the Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education, three new directors were sworn in Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Rice, Jeanette Hart and Layne Frazier joined board members Sheri Noyes, Stacey Hall and Cody Wells as directors in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Rice began a four-year term representing District E, after winning against incumbent Tammy Hooten with 2,222 votes in the Nov. 2 election. Hooten received 1,302 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The seats for District B and G were uncontested. Hart began a four-year term as director for District B, while Frazier will serve for two years on District G.<\/p>\n<p>Former board members Jack Schuenemeyer and Chris Flaherty represented Districts B and G, respectively, before vacating their positions on Sept. 23. Their terms were set to expire in November.<\/p>\n<p>Sherri Wright, former board president and new vice president, was the only board member to not face reelection. She has two years left in her term serving District C.<\/p>\n<p>Board members Sheri Noyes, representing District F, and Stacey Hall, representing District D, began new four-year terms Tuesday. District A Director Cody Wells began a two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Noyes assumed the role of board president, while Hart was elected treasurer and Hall, secretary.<\/p>\n<p>In Dolores, new member Lori Raney was sworn in Wednesday morning, alongside Casey McClellan, who was reelected to the school board.<\/p>\n<p>They won the most votes for the two open seats \u2013 724 and 714 \u2013 out of four candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Barritt won 675 votes, and Jerry Whited won 670 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The elected positions remained the same, with board member Maegan Crowley acting as president; McClellan, vice president; Clay Tallmadge, secretary; and Lenetta Shull, treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Raney replaced former board member Kay Phelps and will serve on the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, Superintendent Reece Blincoe said.<\/p>\n<p>New Mancos school board members Emily Hutcheson-Brown and Victor Figueroa were sworn in Nov.15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>members assume their roles about a month after Nov. 2 election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[103,155,28,167,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","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\/43480","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=43480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85718,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43480\/revisions\/85718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43480"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}