School Board extends offer to VanWorth-Rogers

   Libby School District Board members on Wednesday agreed to offer a contract to Libby High School Principal candidate Ruth Ann VanWorth-Rogers, the former Bakersfield, Calif., administrator.

   By a 5-2 tally, board members agreed to extend the contract offer to VanWorth-Rogers, who was interviewed a second time last Thursday, along with candidates James Germany and Thomas Gallagher.

   Board members Les Nelson, Amy Fantozzi, Lori Benson, Melissa LaGoy and Board President Tracy Comeau favored VanWorth-Rogers. Board members Ellen Johnston and Bruce Sickler favored Germany.

   VanWorth-Rogers, who now makes her home in the Silver Butte area south of Libby, was both an elementary and middle school principal in the Bakersfield district, which boasts a student enrollment of nearly 30,000 students and annual budget of about $200 million.

   She is expected to accept the contract offer on which the board will vote during its regular agenda meeting April 8. Her expected salary with stipulations for experience could reach $86,596.

   The Western News will have a full story in Friday’s edition.