BY KATHY CHANG
Staff Writer
HELMETTA — Two incumbent Independents retained the two, three-year seats on the Helmetta Borough Council in the election on Nov. 8.
Joseph Reid recorded the most votes with 461 and Ronald Dzingleski received 438 votes. Both candidates will be serving their first elected terms.
Reid and Dzingleski had been appointed to fill vacancy seats earlier this year.
Their Republican challengers, Michael Duffy and James Misner, received 427 votes and 396 votes, respectively, in their losing bids for a first term on council.
Councilwoman Noreen F. Carolan will serve the one-year unexpired seat that is also open. She was appointed in April to serve the rest of former Councilman Brian Hackett’s term. No other nomination was made to fill the seat.