By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer
New Hanover is the only local municipality that will see a contested primary race for Township Committee on June 2. Local candidates in North Hanover, Bordentown Township and Florence are running unopposed in their respective political party’s primaries.
The deadline for candidates to file for the primary was Monday.
In Bordentown Township, where two three-year seats will be available in the fall, incumbent Committeeman Mark Roselli and former deputy mayor Robert Delaney have filed as Republicans in the uncontested GOP primary. The Democratic contenders in their party’s uncontested primary are Deputy Mayor Jim Cann and Stephen Monson, who has run before but never been on the committee.
In the township, residents in November elect committee members, who then appoint a mayor from among themselves.
Chesterfield Mayor Michael Hlubik, a Republican, was the only person to file in the GOP primary for the one open seat on the Township Committee. No Democrats filed to run in their party’s primary. Members of the three-person committee serve terms of three years.
No Republicans filed in Fieldsboro, where Democrat Mayor Edward “Buddy” Tyler will be the sole mayoral candidate in his party’s primary. The borough’s mayor serves a four-year term.
Democrats Amy Telford and Andrew Weber will run unopposed in the Democratic primary for two open three-year seats on the Borough Council, which has six members.
Florence has three four-year terms available on the Township Council. Incumbent Frank K. Baldorossi Jr., Kimberly Smith, and Laura J. Taylor are running unopposed in the Democratic primary.The Republicans running unopposed in the GOP primary are Craig H. Wilkie, David B. Woolston, and incumbent Jerry Sandusky.
In Mansfield, Republicans Robert Higgins, an incumbent, and Alfred Clark, a newcomer, will run unopposed for their party’s nomination to run for two open seats on the Township Committee. The five members of the committee serve three-year terms and choose the mayor and deputy mayor from within their ranks. No local candidates filed to run in the Democratic primary.
Four Republicans and one Democrat filed to run for two three-year seats in their respective political party’s primaries for the New Hanover Township Committee. The Republicans are Rick Koshak, Aurus Malloy, Patrick Murphy and Andrea L. Schenker, while Salvatore Schiano Jr. filed as the only Democratic contender. New Hanover has a five-person committee.
North Hanover will have two three-year seats up for grabs. Two Democrats, newcomer Timothy Palmer and former candidate Kim South, are running unopposed in the Democratic primary and will face off in November against Republican incumbents Mike Moscatiello and William Tilton, who also face no opposition in their party’s June primary. Like New Hanover, North Hanover’s mayor is chosen from within the five-person Township Committee.
Bordentown City has a commission-style government and will hold its nonpartisan election May 12. Eight people filed to run for the three open spots before the March 19 deadline.
Under the city’s nonpartisan commission form of government, the three positions are all up for re-election every four years. According to city tradition, commission members choose the mayor from among themselves, and the position normally goes to the candidate who received the most votes.
Springfield has no municipal positions open in this year’s election.
Independent candidates have until the day of the primary to file to run in the general election.

