...A committee of educators, students and parents at JDHS also favored Sorenson over the other two finalists, Elizabeth Burrell Balcerek of Buckland and Richard D. Hebhardt of Naknek. Sorenson "is committed to both the students and staff at JDHS...

...Elementary. Richard Hebhardt, superintendent of the Bristol Bay Borough School District based in Naknek. And Elizabeth Burrell Balcerek, principal since August 2004 of the Buckland, Alaska, school for kindergartners through 12th-graders...

...created some common things we all believed in and we started standing for that," Sorenson said. Candidate Elizabeth Burrell Balcerek is principal at the 170-student school in Buckland, about 75 miles southeast of Kotzebue. Before that in...