The following candidates for the May 1 Yantis school board election  have submitted information for publication.

Election Day is Saturday, May 1.

Early voting is being held April 19 to 27 at the Wood County annex building in Quitman.

Stacey Batchelor is running for trustee on the Yantis ISD School Board. 

She has been married to her husband Paul for 16 years and they have four children between the two of them. Their two youngest attend school in Yantis ISD. Batchelor works for At Home Healthcare in Sulphur Springs as an adult care therapy coordinator.

She is a proud Yantis alumni and has served two years on the Yantis Baseball Board, five years on the Yantis Little Dribblers board and two years with Yantis PTO.

She has lived in Yantis for 35 years.

Carrie Hurley is running for a position on the Yantis ISD school board.

After graduating from Yantis High School in 1997, she pursued her dream of becoming a teacher. Hurley graduated from Texas A&M Commerce with a bachelors in interdisciplinary studies, majoring in early childhood development. She enjoyed teaching fourth grade language arts and Texas history at A.E. Butler in Sulphur Springs from 2000-04. While her daughters were still young, she felt blessed with the opportunity to plant seeds of faith in her role as children’s director at Lake Pointe Sulphur Springs Campus. 

In 2011, she embarked upon a new adventure and created Thee Treehouse, a private tutoring facility in Yantis which provided educational enrichment programs to children in Wood County, as well as surrounding counties. 

She is a proud mother to three beautiful daughters: Kinley, a junior at YISD, Presley, an eighth grader at YISD and Claudia who attends Lake Fork Baptist Wee School. 

Yantis ISD incumbent Tyra Gilbreath Kenemore is seeking to be re-elected. She is married to Tommy Kenemore. They have two boys, Keith and Traityn Kenemore. They both attend Yantis ISD. They are members at the Seymore Bible Fellowship Church. 

She has been in Yantis all her life and graduated from Yantis ISD. She went to Northeast Texas Community College and graduated with a farm and ranch associate degree. She also graduated from the East Texas Police Academy at Kilgore College.

Kennemore works at the Hopkins County district clerk office. She has served on the Yantis ISD school board since 2018.

Ashley Vivian was born and raised in Quitman and has lived in Yantis for 15 years. She has been married to J.D. Vivion for 16 years, and they have have two sons, Seth, a senior, and Justice, a seventh grader.

Vivian was on the Yantis Little Dribblers board for eight years, seven of those serving as president. She coached boys in youth basketball for several years and has worked for Fouke Water Supply for 12 years.