Cape county school boards

Candidates in Delta, Oak Ridge picked for boards

It may not have been the race that grabbed the most headlines, but the Delta School Board race ended up being perhaps the most evenly matched race in the area Tuesday night. Seven candidates were running for three spots. Kenneth R. Cook got the most votes with 145. Troy Smith and Jerri Menz were also elected with 110 and 108 votes, respectively. But just 10 votes separated second place from sixth place. Willard Keys Jr. was just four votes shy, followed by James Bowers with 99 votes and Roger Seabaugh with 98. In another hotly contested Cape Girardeau County school district race, Jacqueline Ludwig, Linda Schoen and Thomas Schreiner were elected fairly easily to the Oak Ridge School Board ahead of six other candidates. Schreiner led the way with 159 votes, followed by Ludwig with 155 and Schoen with 130. The next closest was Robin Tolbert with 95.