With nine board members to be elected to the Henry Hudson Regional K-12 Board of Education in November, both Highlands and Atlantic Highlands voters will each have contests in only two of the three term limits that are to be decided.
Since this is the start of a new board of education, five seats from Highlands and four from Atlantic Highlands will be decided. Terms are staggered so it will never be necessary to vote for all new members from either borough any year.
In the November election, Highlands will have two persons running for the full three-year term, and only one will be elected. Running for that term are Irene F. Campell and Suzanne Thomas.
Highlands will choose two residents to run for the two-year terms to be decided, and only two residents, Rebecca Wells, and Diane Knox, have applied for those seats. Barring a surprise win by any write-in candidate, both Wells and Knox will be elected to the board in November.
Four candidates have filed for the two one-year terms to be decided in November. Vying for the one-year terms are Donald M. Krueger, Allison Burel, Regina Melnyk and Kevin Ege.
In Atlantic Highlands, two three-year terms on the board will be decided in November, and since only two persons have filed, Cory Wingerter and Claire Kozic, both would be elected to the terms barring any write-in candidates.
There will be contests for the one two-year seat and the one one-year set for Atlantic Highlands residents, since several persons filed for election. For each of the term lengths.
Vying for the one two-year seat on the board are Noreen A. Higgins, Bonnie Knechtel and Justin Thomas.
Vying for the single one-year term for an Atlantic Highlands resident are Allison Jacobs, Chelsea Witkowski, and Richard Colangelo.
