{"id":109187,"date":"2019-09-25T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109187"},"modified":"2019-09-25T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T13:11:15","slug":"scott-blanchard-running-for-lenox-town-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=109187","title":{"rendered":"Scott Blanchard Running for Lenox Town Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Democratic Party, Independence Party and Working\nFamilies Party have endorsed Scott Blanchard as their candidate for Lenox Town\nCouncil. Blanchard, a lifelong resident of Canastota and Canastota Central\nSchool District graduate, is currently employed as a 10th grade English teacher\nfor the Utica City School District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI grew up in this community, and I want to keep giving back\nto it,\u201d Blanchard said. \u201cI want to build on the time I\u2019ve spent on the\nCanastota Recreation Commission by serving on the town council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur government can work harder for the people in town \u2013 and\nI\u2019ll make sure it does. After a decade or more of the same faces every year, I\nthink people around here are ready for a change. We need more transparency in\nour local government, we need representatives to be open to fresh ideas, and we\nneed people to hold our representatives accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important to have new blood in the town board\nto make sure that happens, so I decided to step up to the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blanchard graduated from Canastota High School in 2012,\nearned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English from SUNY Geneseo in 2016, and earned a\nmaster\u2019s degree in literacy education in 2018. He is certified to teach English\nin grades 7-12 and has been teaching since 2016. He has also served on the\nCanastota Recreation Commission for more than a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Party, Independence Party and Working Families Party have endorsed Scott Blanchard as their candidate for Lenox Town Council. Blanchard, a lifelong resident of Canastota and Canastota Central School District graduate, is currently employed as a 10th grade English teacher for the Utica City School District. \u201cI grew up in this community, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1.jpg?fit=735%2C1181&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-sp5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}