SHARPSVILLE School board votes to appoint Sharon teacher to vacant seat

SHARPSVILLE, Pa. -- Kimberly Barringer is once again a member of the Sharpsville Area School Board.
The school board selected Barringer, a teacher in the Sharon School District, from a field of five candidates to fill a two-year seat on the board created by the resignation of Donna Murray. Murray stepped down when she took a job with the Mercer County Common Pleas Court.
Barringer, of Blue Jay Drive in South Pymatuning Township, had served as an appointee on the board from 2002 through 2003, but she was defeated in the 2003 primary as she ran for her own four-year seat.
The board initially had six candidates, but Joyce Grandy, a 12-year board veteran who chose not to seek re-election last year but applied for the appointment, withdrew her name before Tuesday's board meeting, said Dr. Derry Stufft, schools superintendent. The board gave Barringer and the other four candidates -- Thomas Kress, Linda Emmerich, Gregory Beshero and Pauline Radasevich -- 20 minutes to respond to a series of questions read by Stufft.
The board then opened the nominating process. Emmerich got the first nomination but failed to garner the required majority of five votes to win the seat, Stufft said. Barringer got the second nomination and secured the appointment in a 6-2 vote.
School directors Len Grandy, Burt DeVries, Susan Pokorney, Charles Rice, David DeForest and Terry Karsonovich voted for her. Gerard Hanley and Deneen Joseph cast the dissenting votes, Stufft said.