Ballots set for April 20
school board elections
The following is a list of candidates who have filed for election to local Boards of Education. The election is April 20, and voters also will have the opportunity then to pass on the budget of their local school board.
The hour that the polls open varies from school district to school district, but they all close at 9 p.m.
Fair Haven
One newcomer and two incumbents are running unopposed for three, three-year terms.
Michael Goione, of 47 Clay St., is a newcomer. The incumbents are Nancy Walrath, of 48 Buttonwood Drive, and Claudia Brasch, of 292 Hance Road.
Little Silver
Three candidates will be vying for two seats on the Little Silver Board of Education in this year’s election. Both seats are for three-year terms.
Two of the candidates are incumbents. They are Amanda Galante, 28 Pine Drive, and Michael Megill, of 2 Lippincott Road. Megill recently was appointed to the board to fill a vacancy.
The third candidate in the race is Seth Rosen, 515 Seven Bridges Road.
Oceanport
Two incumbents and two newcomers are running for the four open seats on the borough Board of Education. Because Lucille Chaump stepped down from the board after winning election to the Borough Council, a special election to fill the remaining year of her term will be held along with the three, three-year seats up for election on April 20.
Dr. William Kaloss, of 155 Smith St., is running unopposed for the one-year term.
The incumbents running for the three-year term are Steven Briskey, of 51 Steeplechase Court, and Bill McVitty, of 1343 Eatontown Blvd.
The newcomer is Melissa Parker-Combs, of 61 Algonquin Ave.
Red Bank
Two incumbents and one newcomer are running unopposed for three open seats.
Newcomer Diana Salvador, of Bodman Place, is running for a seat, as are incumbents Thomas Schroll, of East Bergen Place, and Barbara Horl, of Buena Place.
Red Bank Regional
Three Red Bank incumbents are running unopposed for three, three-year terms, and two Little Silver residents are vying for a one-year unexpired term.
The Red Bank incumbents are Emily Doherty, of South Street; Leslie Taylor, of Prospect Avenue; and Ronald West, of Dr. James Parker Blvd.
The Little Silver residents are Diane Sheng, of Seven Bridges Road, and Peter Roskowinski, of Maple Avenue.Rumson-Fair Haven
Regional High School
Three incumbents are running unopposed for three, three-year terms.
The Rumson incumbents are Donald MacNeal, of Nicol Terrace, and Cathryn Bergin, of Lafayette Street.
The Fair Haven incumbent is John Hendrick, of Gentry Drive.
Rumson
Three incumbents will run unopposed for three, three-year terms.
The incumbents are Maureen K. MacNeal, of Nicol Terrace; Annie Marie Robins, of Monmouth Avenue; and Gary A. Casazza, of Heathcliff Road.
Shrewsbury
Five persons have filed to seek election to three, three-year seats on the Shrewsbury Board of Election.
The candidates include all three incumbents. They are Laurence Thoma, of 69 Meadow Drive; James Halpern, of 103 Samara Drive; and Nilda Collazo, of 84 Garden Road.
The two other candidates are Douglas Moore, of 61 Willow Court, and Peter Meyer, of 53 Beech Tree Lane.
Tinton Falls
Of the five candidates vying for three, three-year seats on the borough’s Board of Education, a few are familiar faces.
Two are incumbents, one is a former board member, and two are newcomers to the race.
The seats that are up for grabs are those now occupied by last year’s board president, Paul Ford, and this year’s president, William Donnelly, and vice president, Peter Karavites. Ford, who has served on the board for the past two terms, or six years, has opted not to run again.
Karavites, of 784 Sycamore Ave., and Donnelly, of 52 Jonathan Drive, will run for third terms on the same ticket with newcomer Kenneth Hager, 22 Orla Court.
Karavites, a former Monmouth County School Board member, is a technical training expert with AT&T, Basking Ridge. Donnelly runs his own technology consulting firm, Donnelly Consulting.
In addition to Donnelly, Karavites and Hager, Richard Calvert, no stranger to the political arena, will make another run for a seat on the board. Having run for a seat for the past two years, Calvert, of 13 Mayberry Drive, was a board member from 1994 to 1997. He presides over his own Middletown-based wholesale florist shop, Calvert’s Wholesale Florist.
Calvert will be running on a ticket separate from the other candidates, as will newcomer Sandra Lopez, 72 Neville St.
— Christine Varno, Sherry Conohan, Nicole Geraghty and Elaine Van DeVelde