{"id":120527,"date":"2026-02-26T05:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/school-districts-feature-contested-races\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:16:39","modified_gmt":"2029-01-11T05:16:39","slug":"school-districts-feature-contested-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/02\/26\/school-districts-feature-contested-races\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"School Districts Feature Contested Races"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several school districts in the area will have contested races for school board positions this spring.<br \/>\n\t  There are three candidates for two positions in Culbertson. The candidates are incumbent Wendy Becker, incumbent Christopher Petersen  and Erin Rhodes.<br \/>\n\t  In Brockton, Keith Belgarde is running  unopposed for a board seat.<br \/>\n\t Current chair Dana Berwick and trustee Neil Iversen are running unopposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120845,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120527\/revisions\/120845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120527"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=120527"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=120527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}