Both the Harlem Public Schools and Turner Public School have new superintendents for the upcoming school year. The new head for Harlem schools, Shawn Smith, served as the superintendent for school systems in Oregon and Montana. Russ McKenna, at Turner, is a returning superintendent to the system there.

Shawn Smith, Harlem Schools

Shawn Smith has a varied background in law, business and education. She is a native Alaskan, born there where her father was a bush pilot. Early on the family moved to the west coast of Africa, to Monrovia, Liberia. She said, “I was the only white person many of...