Four candidates are running for three three-year terms on the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education in the Nov. 7 election.
The terms of board members Al Miller, Denise Lowe and James Moretti will expire in December. Moretti is not running to retain his seat.
The candidates seeking the three three-year seats are Miller, Lowe, Angel Sanchez and Ira Thor.
Thor was unsuccessful in his bid to win a seat on the board in 2016. Sanchez was recently appointed to the board to fill the seat left vacant when Jeanne DePompo resigned.
There is one year remaining in the term DePompo won and to which Sanchez was appointed. No residents filed a nominating petition to run for the one-year term so that position will be empty on the ballot. A write-in candidate could win that one-year term on Nov. 7.
In Jackson, three candidates are running for two three-year terms on the Jackson School District Board of Education. The candidates are Sharon Dey, Tara Rivera and Elenor Hannum.
Board member Michael Hanlon is not seeking re-election. The second available term was previously held by Barbara Fiero, who recently resigned from the board and moved out of Jackson.
On Aug. 15, Dey, who is a former board member, was appointed to Fiero’s open seat to serve through the end of December.
In Farmingdale, the term of Farmingdale Board of Education member Elizabeth Rhein will expire in December. Rhein is not seeking to retain her seat.
No Farmingdale residents filed a nominating petition to run for the one available three-year term. A winner could be determined by write-in votes on Nov. 7.
On the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education, neither of the two seats representing Howell or the single seat representing Farmingdale is on the ballot this year, so residents of those two communities will not participate in the FRHSD election.
The three-year terms for the high school board’s representatives from Colts Neck, Freehold Township and Marlboro will be on the ballot.
School board members in New Jersey serve without compensation.
