{"id":1007240,"date":"2021-05-02T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1007240"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:11:19","slug":"election-day-for-city-and-school-races-is-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1007240","title":{"rendered":"Local elections held Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The results are in for local elections around East Texas. None of the Tyler contests were close. In city council races, Stuart Hene earned his first term, while incumbents Shirley McKellar and Bob Westbrook retained their seats.  Incumbent Tyler ISD board members Yvonne Atkins and Aaron Martinez will also be returning to office. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/\">here<\/a>.  In Longview, Nona Snoddy handily won another term on the city council, while Temple Carpenter overwhelmed two opponents to win the other contested council seat. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longviewtexas.gov\/civicalerts.aspx?AID=3144\">here<\/a> for details on those two races. Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greggcountyvotes.com\/\">here<\/a> for further information on Gregg County election activity.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The results are in for local elections around East Texas. None of the Tyler contests were close. In city council races, Stuart Hene earned his first term, while incumbents Shirley McKellar and Bob Westbrook retained their seats. Incumbent Tyler ISD board members Yvonne Atkins and Aaron Martinez will also be returning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1007240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local elections held Saturday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1007247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/vote.png","fifu_image_alt":"Election Day for city and school races is Saturday","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 22:15:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/vote.png","fifu_image_alt":"Election Day for city and school races is Saturday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008478,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007240\/revisions\/1008478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}