All three races for the Bartholomew Consolidated School Board seats on the Nov. 8 ballot are contested. Candidate filing closed at noon Friday.
School board races in the Columbus-based district, held in even-numbered years, have been unopposed since at least 2008, according to election records at the Bartholomew County Voter Registration office.
Two more local residents declared their candidacy for a seat on the BCSC school board this week. Pat Bryant, the District 5 incumbent, announced Monday that he would seek re-election. Bryant is being challenged by Tim Woods for the District 5 spot.
On Thursday, Dennis White added his name to the District 7 BCSC school board ballot. He is being challenged by Jeff Caldwell, the District 7 incumbent.
Voters also will choose who the District 3 BCSC school board member will be this fall, with incumbent Polly Verbanic and challenger James Persinger both seeking the spot.
In the 2012 general election — the last time the BCSC District 3, 5 and 7 seats were on the ballot — Verbanic, Bryant and Caldwell each ran unopposed.
Similarly, when the District 1, 2 4 and 6 seats on the BCSC school board were up for a vote during the 2014 election, current incumbents Jill Shedd, Rich Stenner, Bob Abrams and Kathy Dayhoff-Dwyer did not have challengers.
In Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. in Hope, incumbents Steve Wilson and Brian Rose have filed to run for re-election to their seats as the Hawcreek and Flat Rock school board representatives, respectively. Both incumbents are running unopposed.
Wilson won his spot on the Flat Rock-Hawcreek board in a three-way race in 2012, while Rose also ran unopposed that year.
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Bartholomew County residents can vote for their preferred candidates for the county public school boards on Nov. 8. Voting centers will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and voter IDs will be required. Residents in either Bartholomew Consolidated or Flat Rock-Hawcreek school districts can vote at any of the 18 county vote centers:
- Flintwood Wesleyan Church, 5300 25th St., Columbus
- St. John’s Masonic Lodge, 4131 Rock Ford Road, Columbus
- Grace Lutheran Church, 3201 Central Ave., Columbus
- Healing Waters Church, 2330 Midway St., Columbus
- Donner Center, 739 22nd St., Columbus
- East Columbus Fire Station, 935 Repp Drive, Columbus
- The Commons, 300 Washington St., Columbus
- MainSource Bank, 2310 W. Jonathan Moore Pike, Columbus
- Terrace Lake Church, 4260 W. 200 South, Columbus
- Faith Lutheran Church, 6000 W. State Road 46, Columbus
- REMC Building, 1697 W. Deaver Road, Columbus
- Elizabethtown Fire Station, 10203 E. Legal Tender Road, Elizabethtown
- Shiloh Baptist Church, 11988 E. State Road 46, Columbus
- Hope Moravian Church, 202 Main St., Hope
- Clifford Fire Station, 7850 N. Depot St., Clifford
- German Township Fire Station, 9248 Main St., Taylorsville
- Southwest Fire Station, 8500 S. State Road 58, Columbus
- White Creek Lutheran Church, 16270 S. 300 West, Columbus
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