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The Shelton School District next month will accept applications to replace Marty Best, who represent District 2 on the Shelton School Board.

Best, the board’s vice chairman, died Nov. 20. He was 67.

Best was appointed to the five-member board in September 2021 to replace Lynn Eaton, who resigned that June after moving out of the director district. Best won a new term in the November 2021 general election, garnering 93.55% of the vote as the only candidate on the ballot.

The district will accept applications during January. The candidates must live in its Director District 2 boundaries, wh...