Ten File For Four Open Seats On Berkeley Board Of Education

There will be plenty of competition this fall with 10 candidates running for the four open seats on the Berkeley Board of Education in the November election.

The this year that almost half the seats are up. The abrupt resignation of former board member on May 25 brought the number of appointed seats up to four.

Eight people have filed for the three, three-year terms that are available, according to the Ocean County Clerk's Office.

Current board members David M. Ytreboe, John MacMoyle and Louis J. Tuminaro are not elected members, but were appointed earlier this year to fill several vacancies.

Ytreboe, Manhattan Avenue, and Tuminaro, Deal Avenue, were appointed after former board members John Bacchione and Thomas Grosse won seats on the Township Council. Tuminaro lost two previous bids for a board seat.

MacMoyle, Northern Boulevard, was appointed shortly after to fill the remainder of former longtime board president was appointed to a seat on the Township Council.

The three current members are running are being challenged by Patrick Mooney, Pheasant Drive, George A. Kaminski, Ravenwood Drive, Lieto Bento, Browning Avenue, Donnie Clyburn, Second Avenue, and Keith Fisher, Pheasant Drive.

There's also a race for the one-year unexpired term created by Parks' resignation.

Gerard C. Reuter, Scott Drive, and Lauren Ciccone-Zawada, Mill Creek Road, are both vying for the one-year seat.