The Beat: Columbia School Board candidates vie for two seats

Monday, April 6, 2009 | 3:03 p.m. CDT

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BY Sean Powers

COLUMBIA — On Tuesday, Columbia voters will decide on two of the newest school board members out of a batch of nine candidates. Reporter Ben Magnuson and editor Liz Brixey talk about the significance of having so many candidates in the race.

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  • As two school board members, Michelle Gadbois and Steve Calloway, leave, two new members, Michelle Pruitt and Christine King, are sworn in Monday at the District’s Administration Building. Gadbois discusses her feelings about leaving the district as Pruitt and King discuss their excitement for joining the board.
  • Michelle Pruitt, left, newly elected member of the Columbia Board of Education, is sworn into office by Lynn Barnett, assistant superintendent and secretary of the board, during the board meeting at the Public School Administration building Monday.
  • Top row, left to right: Marc Bledsoe, Jeannine Craig, Greg Flippin, Dan Holt
    Bottom row, left to right: Christine King, Sam Phillips, Michelle Pruitt, Adam Sorg
    Not pictured: Bill Merideth
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