The three applicants, all Wrightstown residents (Region 9 is all of Wrightstown and a small part of Newtown Township) were each interviewed for 20 minutes, with all eight board members asking a different question covering various topics. “I do not appreciate that,” said Salamon in a remark directed at Khan, who did not respond. Since the Facebook issue came up, Salamon, in the interest of “leveling the playing field,” mentioned an email he said was written and sent out by Khan last year that touched on “extreme far right political agendas in our school district. Whatever they are talking about on Facebook, I did not author it.” “I don’t do social media, except for LinkedIn. “My wife and I have had a Facebook account for about 15 years, but I haven’t used it in, I’d say, 10 years,” Nowmos said after the meeting. He denied making them, both during his interview and after the meeting in comments to the media. School board member Palli - saying she was seeing Nowmos’ face “all over Facebook” - and some residents brought up his alleged posts, saying they appeared to show bias and were concerning.
Also publicly interviewed and considered for the vacancy at the Tuesday night meeting was Christina Chandler. His appointment by a 5-3 vote was along party lines, with Republican board members Ed Salamon, Robert Hickey, Mike Roosevelt, Joseph Hidalgo and Michael Thorwart voting for Nowmos.ĭemocratic members Ed Tate, Mariann McKee and Yota Palli favored fellow Democrat Nicole Khan, who lost to Marcell by only seven votes in the 2021 election.
He said he will probably file to run in this year’s election in the hopes of keeping the seat beyond December but has not done so yet. 9 resignation of Kristin Marcell, now the state representative in Legislative District 178.Ī Wrightstown resident since 2010 and a Republican, Nowmos will serve through the early December reorganization meeting by virtue of the appointment.
Nowmos, a board member in Bensalem from 2008-2010, fills the Council Rock Region 9 vacancy created by the Feb. 28 meeting, despite a controversy about some Facebook posts he allegedly made that critics say disparaged transgender people and some others. Wrightstown resident Stephen Nowmos was appointed to the Council Rock School Board during a special Tuesday Feb.
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