'Never had this scenario': No candidates running for open Lew-Port School Board seats

School board seat qualifying begins in July

Candidate qualifying will begin this summer for a seat on the county school board, one of the races coming to the county-wide general election ballot in November.

'Never had this scenario': No candidates running for open Lew-Port School Board seats

The Lewiston-Porter Central School District finds itself in a rare predicament ahead of next weeks school board election: two open board seats, but nobody running to fill them."Its not that prevalent, but it does happen from time to time," Chief Communications & Marketing Officer for the New York State School Boards Association David Albert said. "This year, maybe just a ballpark estimate, there might just be about a dozen school districts or so…