Newcomers elected to Lansing school board
Updated at 1:25 p.m. Nov. 3, 2021, with additional information.
It looks like the Lansing Board of Education will soon have four new faces.
Newcomers Mary Wood, Jeff Bollin and Amy Cawvey have been elected to regular at-large terms on the school board. And newcomer Carla Wiegers was elected Tuesday to serve the remainder of an unexpired term on the school board.
Six candidates were vying for the three regular terms on the school board.
Wood received 1,168 votes. Bollin received 1,134 votes, and Cawvey received 1,108, according to unofficial results from the County Clerk's Office.
Among the other candidates in the race, incumbent Beth Stevenson received 1,083 votes. Susie Jorgensen Werth received 1,052 votes, and Roy Foster received 1,044 votes.
Wood said she was pleased by the number of people who voted in the Lansing school board election.
"I thought it was a great turnout for the whole community," she said.
Cawvey said the race for the board seats was heated.
"I'm hoping that some of that can calm down over time," she said.
In talking with voters while campaigning, Cawvey said she heard from many people who felt like their voices were not being heard on the school board.
"That seemed to be the No. 1 concern at least for us," she said.
In the race for the unexpired term, Wiegers received 814 votes. Incumbent Cheryl Runnebaum received 377 votes and Amy Zimmerman received 339 votes. There were 657 write-in votes in this race.
County Clerk Janet Klasinski said a majority of the write-in votes were for April Cromer,
April Cromer mounted a write-in campaign for the unexpired term, but it was not immediately clear how many of the write-in votes were for her.
Wiegers said it will be an honor to serve on the school board.
"Local elections are very personal and we all have a role to play in the community," she said.
The results will remain unofficial until they are certified Nov. 10 by county commissioners who will be acting as the Board of Canvassers.
This article originally appeared on The Leavenworth Times: Newcomers elected to Lansing school board
