Politics & Government

Heller Out in Nazareth Area School Board Primary Election

Incumbent Maurice Heller lost his re-election bid to remain on the Nazareth Area School Board in Tuesday's primary election.

The Nazareth Area School Board will be losing another current member.

One day after director Chris Miller announced his resignation, board member Maurice Heller lost his re-election bid in Tuesday's primary election.

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting in Region III of the Nazareth Area School Board, board member Dominic Villani, who replaced Christian Audenried when he moved to fill a spot on the Nazareth Borough Council, was the leading vote-getter.

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He received 162 votes on the Republican ticket and 225 on the Democratic side. All four candidates cross-filed as Republicans and Democrats for the two open seats.

Former School Board member Linda Stubits was the other winner.

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Stubits received 141 votes on the GOP ticket and 201 as a Democrat.

Both were the only candidates who turned in election questionnaires explaining their candidacy to Nazareth Patch.

Heller was third with 115 votes as a Republican and 156 votes as a Democrat.

The race changed recently after a snafu caused the elimination of a two-year school board seat, thus putting Zackary Audenried—the son of the councilman— into the four-year battle. Before that, he had been running for only the two-year seat.

He received 94 votes as a Republican and 126 votes as a Democrat.


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