School Candidates Step Up

In preparation for district-wide school board elections, candidates’ nominating petitions are due at the various district clerks’ offices no later than 5 p.m. on April 17. The elections will be held on May 16, a Tuesday.

In East Hampton, two board members, Jacqueline Lowey and John J. Ryan Sr., will complete their terms on June 30. Ms. Lowey has announced she will seek re-election. In an email to The Star, she wrote that “I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished these past six years and would like one final term to continue working for the families of East Hampton.”

In Bridgehampton, the terms of two board members, Jeff Mansfield and Kathleen McCleland, also end in June. Neither has said yet whether they will run again.

In Springs, the vice president of the school board, Timothy Frazier, will seek re-election. Elizabeth Mendelman, a board member, has not declared her intentions.

The terms of Diana Kolhoff, president of the board in Sag Harbor, and the board members Theresa Samot and Sandi Kruel, are up in June as well. None have announced their plans for the future.