UPDATE: The City Council Candidate Who Wasn't Runs for School Board

Nancy "Sunny" Bostrom delivered nomination papers for Piedmont school board just before the deadline Wednesday. Though five of the signatures on the petition were invalid, the Alameda County Registrar verified 20 did belong to Piedmont voters, so Bostrom qualifies for the Feb. 7 election, joining the other four candidates for three open spots.  

Bostrom had previously filed to run for City Council in February but, according to Piedmont's City Clerk and elections official John Tulloch, only 19 of the 23 signatures on that petition were legit. The registrar found that three of the signators' addresses did not match the addresses where they were registered to vote and one was in fact registered in Oakland.

The candidate, a resident of Piedmont for more than 50 years, was on the ballot for City Council in 2010. She garnered 188 votes (2.3 percent) in that race roughly a year after her mother's body was found sitting in her living room (police announced in May prior to the election that they would not bring any charges in that case).

Bostrom has continued to be active in city politics, speaking before City Council in March in favor of the lease of 801 Magnolia Avenue for the new Piedmont Center for the Arts and against the proposal to develop Blair Park.