Qualifying ended Aug. 23 with 10 candidates for seven posts on the Marietta Board of Education.

Unopposed for Ward 1 is incumbent Alan Levine, an attorney.

For Ward 2, candidates are incumbent Jason Waters and Arthur Vaughn, an educator.

The only Ward 3 candidate is incumbent Randy Weiner, a small business owner.

Ward 4 candidates are incumbent Allison M. Gruehn, a bookkeeper and Camile B. Jones, an educator.

For Ward 5, candidates are incumbent Jeriene Bonner-Grimes, a business owner and Angela Orange, a nonprofit administrator.

The Ward 6 candidate is incumbent Kerry Minervini, a realtor.

Incumbent Irene Holly Berens, an office manager, is the Ward 7 candidate.

The general election will be Nov. 7.

Those elected will serve four-year terms from Jan. 1, 2018 to Jan. 1, 2022.

Information: CobbElections.org.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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