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February 20. 2012 11:33PM
Ingrid Byrd holds the trophy she won as the Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award recipient in 2005. (Bruce Preston / Union Leader)
Ingrid Byrd spins yarn in the kitchen of her Candia home on Monday afternoon. She is a retired school teacher, outspoken fiscal conservative and the winner of the Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award in 2005 for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston Union Leader
Ingrid Byrd carefuly cleans the 2005 Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award she recieved for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston / Union Leader
Ingrid Byrd of Candia check on some of the sheep that she raises in her back yard. Byrd is a retired school teacher, outspoken fiscal conservative and also the winner of the 2005 Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston / Union Leader
Only in Print: Candia's Ingrid Byrd taking heat for independent vote
Ingrid Byrd holds the trophy she won as the Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award recipient in 2005. (Bruce Preston / Union Leader)
Ingrid Byrd spins yarn in the kitchen of her Candia home on Monday afternoon. She is a retired school teacher, outspoken fiscal conservative and the winner of the Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award in 2005 for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston Union Leader
Ingrid Byrd carefuly cleans the 2005 Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award she recieved for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston / Union Leader
Ingrid Byrd of Candia check on some of the sheep that she raises in her back yard. Byrd is a retired school teacher, outspoken fiscal conservative and also the winner of the 2005 Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment award for speaking out against a conduct code she said would silence dissenters. Bruce Preston / Union Leader
CANDIA -- AS SHE HAS DONE once every three years for the last 15 years, Ingrid Byrd made her way around town Monday, setting up the signs she has always used asking residents to vote for her for school board. And just as in some of those years past, Byrd has found herself in the midst of a controversy in which she has spoken out and voted against what the rest of her fellow board members have wanted.