W.G. “Butch” Lamb in Ward No. 1 and Clayton Meadows in Ward No. 3 will both keep their posts since neither drew an opponent.
But four school board candidates will have races after the candidate filing period concluded at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The races will be in Gans School District, in the Vian School District and in the Gore School District.
The candidates who had filed for school board posts are:
•Belfonte School Office No. 2 — Eugene Mooney of rural Muldrow (unopposed and takes office)
•Brushy School Office No. 2 — David Lee Philpot of rural Sallisaw (unopposed incumbent, retains office)
•Central School Office No. 5 — Roger D. Crawford of rural Sallisaw (unopposed and takes office)
•Gans School Office No. 5 — Jeremy Taylor of rural Muldrow and Ron Goff of rural Sallisaw
•Gore School Office No. 3 (unexpired three-year term) — Michael D. Friend of rural Gore, Arthur Cotton Carter of rural Gore, Jeremy Lane of Gore and Rhonda Eagle of rural Gore
•Gore School Office No. 4 (unexpired four-year term) — James Terrell Cameron Jr. of rural Gore
•Gore School Office No. 5 — Richard Smith of rural Gore, Bill Raskey of Gore (incumbent) and Charles “Bud” Baker of Gore
•Liberty School Office No. 2 — George E. Lawson Jr. of rural Muldrow (unopposed and takes office)
•Marble City School Office No. 1 — Pauline Pettit of Marble City (unopposed and takes office)
•Moffett School Office No. 2 — Sylvester Carolina of Moffett (unopposed and takes office)
•Muldrow School Office No. 5 — Chad Sutton of rural Muldrow (unopposed and takes office)
•Roland School Office No. 5 — Roger Brunk of rural Roland (unopposed and takes office)
•Sallisaw School Office No. 5 — William Orendorff of Sallisaw (unopposed incumbent, retains office)
•Vian School Office N o. 5 — C. Patrick Sullivan of Vian, incumbent, and John L. Swimmer of rural Vian
The board of education posts will be decided at the annual school election on Feb. 9. Kathy Webb, Sequoyah County Election Board secretary, said if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast in the election, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes will meet in a runoff election April 6.
She added that a protest period was held open through 5 p.m. Friday, for any protests filed against the candidates.
