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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Four New Members Elected to D159 Board of Education

Stacy Cesta, Danielle Didrickson, Anna Briscoe and Jim Andresen were all elected to the Mokena School District 159 Board of Education on Tuesday, April 9.

Four new members will take seats on the Mokena School District 159 Board of Education in the coming months, after voters elected Stacy Cesta, Danielle Didrickson, Anna Briscoe and Jim Andresen to seats on the board. “It's exciting to hear the numbers,” Didrickson said. “It's very excited to see the numbers that we're seeing and hope that officially those numbers are truly the numbers that come in at the end of the day” The quartet ran as a ticket, watching the results trickle in during election night together. “It's great, it's exciting, my wife encouraged me to get out there and do something to support the community,” Andresen said. “It's all kind of just sinking in, and between the absentee and early ballots, it's just so exciting. As …

Friday, February 22, 2013

Tension Sparks Among D159 School Board Candidates Due to Campaign Literature

School board candidates Stacy Cesta and Anna Briscoe say they have been targeted by incumbent Mark Franceschini and his running mate Bob Swale.

Mokena School District 159 Board of Education candidate Stacy Cesta addressed concerns that fellow candidates distributed literature attacking her campaign platform during the public comment portion of the school board’s Feb. 20 meeting. “It saddens me that there’s already negative stuff,” Cesta told the board. Cesta was referring to a campaign brochure for candidate team Mark Franceschini, an incumbent, and Bob Swale, who are running for two of the four school board seats opening up in April. The literature was distributed as part of Franceschini and Swale's door-to-door canvassing efforts and states that a vote for Cesta or for candidate Anna Briscoe is a vote for “‘Yes’ on increase taxes.” Of candidate Jim Andresen, the brochure says “…

In this Article:

Election 2011: Voters Say 'No' to 159 Referendum for a Third Time; School Board Elections Very Close and Ann C. Piasecki (in New Lenox Patch)

Frank H.

5:13 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013

If you are a Mokena resident, I'm surprised you didn't see the flyer talking about us needing to pay more taxes to save the extracurricular activities. And right there is kral's picture. And why shouldn't we be against that political hack. He's the one who increased my house's assessment, which means more taxes, and then he favors increasing taxes to save school activities on top of that. And …   more ›

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