{"id":125230,"date":"2026-05-14T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/area-school-board-candidates-win-elections\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:18:29","modified_gmt":"2028-10-30T05:18:29","slug":"area-school-board-candidates-win-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/14\/area-school-board-candidates-win-elections\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Area School Board  Candidates Win Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contested school board elections were conducted in Wolf Point, Culbertson,  Poplar and Frazer on Tuesday,  May 5.<br \/>\n\t  In the election for two positions in Culbertson, the winners were Chris Petersen with 180 votes and Chris Newbill with 137 votes. Other  candidates were Wendy Becker with 113 votes and Erin Rhodes with 49 votes.<br \/>\n\t  Petersen said he sought the position  because \u201cI am running so I<\/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\/125230"}],"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=125230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125550,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125230\/revisions\/125550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125230"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125230"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}