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Local school board races Tuesday resulted in wins for some familiar faces and some new ones.
Tom Westerhof won re-relection for the Warsaw School Board District 1 seat. He received 919 votes, or 69.99%. Heather Helton received 394 votes, or 30.01%.
“I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to continue serving Warsaw Community Schools and our community as the District 1 representative on the school board. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made over the past four years and look forward to building on that and continuing the good work we’ve started,” Westerhof said.
For Warsaw School Board District 7, Ryan M. Parker received 1,017 votes, or 74.07%. Ben Rice, who dropped out of the race Aug. 23, received 356 votes, or 25.93%.
For the remaining seats up for election for the Warsaw School Board, Heather Reichenbach received 1,308 votes, or 100% of the votes for the District 2 seat. Denny Duncan received 1,478 votes, or 100% of the vote, for the District 5 seat.
Tippecanoe Valley School Board saw three people seek the District 3 seat. Shelly E. Engle received 911 votes, or 61.51%. Joe Secrist received 344 votes, or 23.23%. Jamie Murphy received 226 votes, for 15.26%.
In other races for seats on the Tippecanoe Valley School Board, Tom Bauters ran for the District 4 seat. He received 1,260 votes. Jeffrey Brown met the deadline to be a write-in candidate for the District 5 seat and received 47 votes.
Jason Ughetti and Kim Nguyen both filed for the Wawasee Community School Board District 2 seat. Nguyen received 2,453 votes, for 53.33%. Ughetti received 2,147 votes, for 46.67%.
For the uncontested Wawasee Community School Board seats, Neil Likens received 3,424 votes for the District 1 seat and Beth Beer received 4,030 for the District 3 seat.
For the Triton School Board, Teresa Barnhart received 220 votes in Kosciusko County and 716 votes in Marshall County for the District 1 seat. Steven Stichter received 235 votes for the District 2 seat in Kosciusko County and 705 votes in Marshall County. Austin Davis received 219 votes in Kosciusko County and 735 votes in Marshall County for the District 4 seat.
For the Wa-Nee School Board, no candidate filed for the Harrison Township seat. Curt Flickinger received 254 votes for the Locke Township seat and Trevor Hershberger received 265 votes in Kosciusko County, both 100% of the vote. Elkhart County results were not available as of press time Tuesday.
For the Whitko School Board, Deb Thomas received 943 votes for the District 4 seat and Scott Werstler received 920 votes in Kosciusko County, both 100% of the vote in the races.
