Kenealy was hired by Hamburg last May after the school board voted not to renew its contract with Jay Lutt, who was a shared superintendent with Farragut. Members of the Hamburg school board will meet Tuesday at 10 a.m. to accept Kenealy’s resignation and release him from his 2015-16 contract. The board will also discuss finding a replacement superintendent and principal for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade at that special meeting.

The Odebolt-Arthur & B-C-I-G schools in Ida Grove recently conducted a superintendent search as well, with one of the three unsuccessful candidates being Tom Messinger, who is one of two finalists to be superintendent of the Red Oak Community School District. He also was a named finalist last month in a superintendent search in Osage.

Messinger is the principal of Burlington High School, where he has been for the past 11 years. He grew up in Casey on the Adair-Guthrie county line. The other Red Oak finalist is Debra Rodenburg, who is the director of elementary curriculum and Title I for the Papillion-La Vista School District in Papillion, Neb. She was an elementary teacher in Nebraska for 10 years as well as a former principal of West Elementary School in Glenwood.

Red Oak plans to conduct interviews early this week, with a “probable vote” listed on the agenda following a dinner and interview with Rodenburg during a special meeting of the school board on Wednesday evening. In addition to Hamburg and Red Oak, Shenandoah also recently hired Kerri Nelson as its new superintendent after firing its previous superintendent during a fraud inquiry that was initially disputed and then dropped.