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There’s only room for three of them, but seven Glenwood-area residents want to serve on the Glenwood Board of Education.

The Mills County Auditor’s Office confirmed Friday that the seven candidates have filed the necessary paperwork to have their names on the ballot for the Sept. 8 election. School board seats currently occupied by Bill Agan, David Warren and Frank Overhue are up for election this year. All seats on the board are now elected at-large.

A Monday afternoon walk-through tour of the new high school building left Glenwood Community School District officials still feeling confident that the facility will be up and running on Aug. 26, the first day of the 2009-2010 school year.

Four members of the Glenwood Board of Education were joined by about two dozen citizens from the community as they toured the school with GCSD Superintendent Dr. Stan Sibley, contractors and architects.

Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge made a brief appearance in Glenwood Friday during an on-going tour designed to promote tourism in the state.

Judge visited the Glenwood Indian Earth Lodge and also toured the Native American artifact room at the Mills County Historical Museum in Glenwood Lake Park.

The Glenwood School Board voted 4-1 last Monday at its monthly meeting to give across-the-board raises to the district’s classified non-union employees, non-certified union employees, administrators and Superintendent Dr. Stan Sibley.