Sullivan West Board candidates

By SARAH GOLDMAN

NARROWSBURG, NY — School board elections are on June 3. Running for the Sullivan West School Board seat currently held by Jeffery Nober are Nober and Regina Wagner. Running for K.C. Garn’s seat on the board is Angela Daley, Nancy Nicoletti and Tony Wayne. Richard Sandler is running unopposed for his seat on the board.

Jeffery Nober

Jeffery Nober served as a board member for the past nine years in the former Narrowsburg Central School District and in the Sullivan West Central School District.

Nober is a graduate of Narrowsburg Central School, SUNY Oswego and SUNY New Paltz. He taught technology for seven years at Goshen High School and for the past 19 years has worked at Gasko & Meyer, Inc., a family-owned-and-operated business.

Nober said that as the school board president, he has helped produce successful budgets, negotiated past teacher contracts, developed a building project and referendum, solved personnel issues and worked on everyday school issues.

He and his wife Mary Jane live in the Narrowsburg- Lake Huntington area. They have three children, Bruce, Heather, and John. Nober has volunteered for various community activities and has served as a member of the Town of Cochecton Youth Board and the Town of Cochecton Planning Board. He has also coached both Little League and AYSO Soccer.

Regina Wagner

Regina Wagner, a graduate of SUNY Oneonta and Mary Wood University, is the recipient of the 2003 Red Cross Quality of Human Life award for her fundraising work with the Red Cross. She has also received the 2003 Educator of the Year award from the Sullivan County School Board Association for her work in Sullivan County. She is a founding member for the Sullivan West Committee for Tolerance and has worked as the President of the Sullivan County School Counselors Association. Wagner has also taught religious education at Saint Francis Church in Youngsville.

Wagner said, “Our district can provide an affordable, quality education for all its students. This will happen if the Board of Education is willing to join with the community by listening to the people they represent and acting with respect and integrity. It’s all about working together.”

Wagner works as the Coordinator of Guidance Service at Career and Technical Education for both of the Sullivan County BOCES campuses. She lives in Jeffersonville with her husband Steven and their two children.

Angela Daley

Angela Daley is the mother of three Sullivan West students and has worked actively for the past 15 years for the betterment of the education of the district’s kids.

“To see the much needed renovations finally happening in our buildings and the reality of our new high school almost completed in Lake Huntington is nothing short of miraculous,” Daley says.

But Daley says that will not be the end of the merger project, for much work still remains to keep the best and brightest teachers and administrators in the district. “We want to offer the best programs, making Sullivan West the jewel of Sullivan County and New York State.”

According to the polling books, between 55 and 85 percent of our parents have not been voting in school elections.

“If you haven’t voted for whatever reason, please make this the year that your vote counts. Please come out and vote for me, but more importantly, vote yes on our school budget for our kids,” Daley said.

Nancy Nicoletti

Nancy Nicoletti is a graduate of Jeffersonville-Youngsville Central School, Sullivan County Community College and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

She is running for the Sullivan West School Board of Education seat vacated by K.C. Garn. Nicoletti has served as a member of the J.Y.C.S. Board.

Nicoletti said that she wants to be involved in developing the policies and curriculum that will enhance the success of all students within the confines of fiscal responsibility of the district.

Nicoletti has been a District Planning Team member, C.S.E. Parent Advocate, P.T.A. member, 4-H assistant, Scout mom, and worked for Big Brothers & Big Sisters. She is also the Cochecton Youth Board representative to Sullivan County. Nicoletti lives in Cochecton with her husband and their two children.

Tony Wayne

Tony Wayne is a lifelong resident of the Town of Fremont, where he lives on the family farm with his wife Sandy and his three children.

Wayne is a Vietnam veteran and a Purple Heart winner, who graduated from Delaware Valley in 1966. He has long been active in school district affairs, both in the former district and the new Sullivan West Central School District.

Wayne has served as a volunteer firefighter for 17 years in the Hankins-Fremont Center Fire District and currently chairs the Delaware Valley Fire Prevention Team.

Wayne is widely credited with uncovering the extensive and essentially unresolved environmental problems at the Lake Huntington high school site.

He is president of the Committee For School Reform and an advocate of a school owned and operated bus fleet.

Wayne is asking voters to vote “no” on contract busing and promises that if elected he will continue to hold district administrators accountable to parents and taxpayers.

Richard Sandler

Richard Sandler is running for re-election to the Sullivan West board.

Sandler has been on the Sullivan West Board since the district was established four years ago. Before that, he was a member of the Delaware Valley Board of Education for two years.

He lives in Callicoon with his wife, Linda, and their three children. Sandler said he would like to continue his work on the board, trying to balance the needs of the students and the taxpayers.