2 candidates with teaching backgrounds win Bangor School Committee seats

2 candidates with teaching backgrounds win Bangor School Committee seats

Two parents with teaching backgrounds won seats on Bangor’s School Committee in Tuesday’s election. Mallory Cook was the most popular candidate with 3,817 votes, and Benjamin Speed earned a committee seat with 3,526 votes. Both winning candidates were endorsed by the progressive Brewer-based nonprofit Food AND Medicine. Laura Otis garnered the third-most votes with 2,036, and Frank Casella received 1,972. None of the four candidates had held ele…