{"id":1316472,"date":"2019-11-05T20:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T03:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=990529"},"modified":"2019-11-05T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T03:53:03","slug":"larson-holds-lead-in-3-way-race-for-contested-roaring-fork-school-board-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/larson-holds-lead-in-3-way-race-for-contested-roaring-fork-school-board-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Larson holds lead in 3-way race for contested Roaring Fork school board seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/rf-school-board.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/rf-school-board.jpg 912w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/rf-school-board-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/rf-school-board-768x336.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\"><figcaption><strong>From left, District D Roaring Fork Schools board candidates Amy Connerton, Shane Larson and Jasmin Ramirez. <\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Shane Larson appears to have held his seat on the Roaring Fork School District Board of Education in a three-way race for the north and west Glenwood Springs District D seat.<\/p>\n<p>With unofficial results tallied in the Garfield County portion of the school district, as of 7:25 p.m., Larson had 1,301 votes to 1,203 and 757, respectively, for challengers Jasmin Ramirez and Amy Connerton.<\/p>\n<p>Districtwide, including the Basalt-area portions of Eagle and Pitkin counties that are included in the school district, Larson had 1,716 votes in the latest tally, to 1,579 for Ramirez and 1,091 for Connerton.<\/p>\n<p>There was minimal contest for the two other open seats on the local school board governing public schools in Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Torres will take the District B seat formerly held by Matt Hamilton, who moved away and stepped down from the seat in June. Write-in candidate Matt Cova recorded 59 votes in the Garfield County voting, based on the unofficial results, to Torres\u2019 2,611.<\/p>\n<p>Maureen Stepp will take the District C seat on the school board, as current board member Mary Elizabeth Geiger is stepping down. Another write-in candidate for that seat, Molly Peterson, garnered 86 votes to Stepp\u2019s 2,579.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:jstroud@postindependent.com\">jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/larson-holds-lead-in-3-way-race-for-contested-roaring-fork-school-board-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left, District D Roaring Fork Schools board candidates Amy Connerton, Shane Larson and Jasmin Ramirez. Shane Larson appears to have held his seat on the Roaring Fork School District Board of Education in a three-way race for the north and west Glenwood Springs District D seat. With unofficial results tallied in the Garfield County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 14:33:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}