By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
Township voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select three Township Council members, as well as a raft of state and county elected officials.
Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
At the municipal level, voters will choose from among six candidates, three Republicans and three Democrats, to serve on Township Council for the next four years. Political control of the five-member council, currently dominated by four Democrats, is at stake.
The three Democrats include incumbents Pam Mount and Michael Powers and one newcomer, Jim Kownacki.
Ms. Mount, 63, is seeking her third term on the council. She lives on Cold Soil Road and is the co-owner of Terhune Orchards. She has lived in Lawrence for 32 years.
Mr. Powers, 39, is seeking his second term on the council. The Pin Oak Drive resident has lived in Lawrence for 31 years. He is the attorney for PharmaNet. The West Windsor Township-based company is a global drug development company.
Mr. Kownacki, 56, lives on Fillmore Place. The 10-year Lawrence resident works as an electrician at the Ewing Lawrence Sewerage Authority.
The three Republican candidates are Bob Bostock, Falk Engel and Marie Tagliaferri.
Mr. Bostock, 49, is a Springwood Drive resident. He is a freelance writer and consultant. He was a speech writer and senior policy adviser to Christine Todd Whitman while she was governor of New Jersey and then when she headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Engel, 51, lives on Barnett Road. He is a lifelong resident and an attorney who specializes in constitutional law.
Ms. Tagliaferri, 58, is a 49-year resident of Lawrence. The Featherbed Court resident retired in 2004 after 33 years as a medical technician at the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
At the Mercer County Board of Freeholders, Democratic incumbents Anthony Carabelli of Trenton and Keith Hamilton of Hamilton are seeking re-election. They are being challenged by Republican candidates Shirley A. Guerieri and Robert Calabro, both of Trenton. The term is for three years.
Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes, the Democratic incumbent and a Princeton Township resident, is being challenged by Republican candidate Janice Mitchell Mintz of Pennington. The term is for four years.
In the 15th Legislative District, the race is between incumbent state Sen. Shirley Turner, of Lawrence, a Democrat, and Republican candidate Bob Martin, of Hopewell Township.
Also in the 15th Legislative District, Democratic incumbent Assembly members Reed Gusciora, of Princeton Borough, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, of Ewing Township, are facing off against Republicans Sylvester “Bobby” Bryant, of Trenton, and Norbert E. Donelly, of Lawrence, and Green Party candidates Ken Wolski and Nick Mellis, both of Lawrence. The term is for two years.
Voters who live in General Election Districts 1, 4, 7, 15 and 20 will cast their votes at the Lawrenceville Fire Company on Phillips Avenue.
Voters who live in districts 3, 6, 8 and 11 will go to the Lawrence Road Fire Company to vote.
Voters who live in districts 12, 13, 14 and 19 will go to the Lawrence Senior Center on Darrah Lane to cast their ballots.
District 16 voters can cast their ballots at the Lawrence Square Village clubhouse, off Quakerbridge Road.
Voters who live in districts 17, 18 and 21 will vote at the Municipal Building, off Route 206.
The Slackwood Fire Company on Slack Avenue is the polling place for voters in districts 2, 9 and 10.
The Project Freedom clubhouse, off Princeton Avenue near the Brunswick Circle, is the location for voters in District 5.
