BSSD holds school board elections

The Regional Educational Attendance Area, or REAA, annual school board elections will occur on October 6.

This includes REAA #2, the Bering Strait School District, which has five board seats up for reelection. People can vote in person at polling places in Brevig Mission, Teller, Wales, White Mountain, St. Michael, Stebbins, Unalakleet, Diomede, Gambell and Savoonga on election day. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.

The Unalakleet City Office is the official absentee voting location and can only be used by voters in Section IV for residents of St. Michael, Stebbins and Unalakleet. Voters can submit absentee ballots there from September 21 until October 5.

Tiffany Montemayor, spokesperson for the Division of Elections, said that absentee ballots were sent out on September 11. But because the deadline to apply for an absentee ballot for REAA elections is September 26, the DOE is continually mailing out ballots.

Current seats up for election are Seat B for Section II (which includes Brevig Mission, Teller, Wales, White Mountain and areas of Nome), Seats F and G for Section IV (St. Michael, Stebbins and Unalakleet), and Seats I and J for Section V (Diomede, Gambell and Savoonga).

Running for Section II, Seat B are Sean Komonaseak of Wales, Elmer Seetot III of Brevig Mission and incumbent Robert Tokienna, Jr. of Wales.

In Section IV, incumbent Annabelle Cunningham of Unalakleet is running unopposed for Seat F. The race for Seat G is between incumbent Robert Dickens of Unalakleet and Richard Elachik, Sr. of St. Michael.

For Section V, Aaron Iworrigan from Gambell is running unopposed for Seat I, as is incumbent Muffy Iya of Savoonga for Seat J.