Meet This Fall's Seven TCAPS Board Candidates
By Craig Manning | Oct. 7, 2026
Depending on how local residents vote this November, Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) could soon have a majority of fresh faces on its board.
Four seats on the seven-person body are up for grabs, and a fifth recently changed hands following the resignation of former board president Scott Newman-Bale. Additionally, the board’s current president and longest-serving member – Erica Moon Mohr, who won her first term in November 2018 – is not seeking re-election.
Seven candidates are vying for the open seats, including three incumbents (Sara Bageris, Scott Hardy, and Beth Pack) and four newcomers (Diane Arnold, Charmaine Lipscomb, Peter Mooney, and Dee Zuidersma). Both Arnold and Lipscomb …
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