Incumbents win village elections

Laura Fitzgerald
Posted 3/27/19

All four incumbents won in the Village of Montgomery elections on March 19. Steve Brescia won the office of mayor, JoAnn Scheels and Darlene Andolsek won the positions of trustee, and Tina Fassnacht …

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Incumbents win village elections

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All four incumbents won in the Village of Montgomery elections on March 19.

Steve Brescia won the office of mayor, JoAnn Scheels and Darlene Andolsek won the positions of trustee, and Tina Fassnacht won as village justice.

Brescia won 565 votes, while mayoral candidate Maria Beltrametti received 273.                                                                                                                                                                        
The trustee race was won by a thinner margin. Scheels garnered 490 votes and Andolsek won 527, while trustee candidate Donald Berger received 406.

Fassnacht handily beat out her competitors, with 474 votes versus 241 for former Village of Montgomery officer in charge Jack Byrnes and 108 for resident Joe Marrero.                                                                                                                           

Beltrametti said this would be her last bid for election, after running for village office three times previously.                                                                                                
“I’m done with my political career, I don’t want to play this game anymore,” Beltrametti said.                                                                                                                                           
Brescia declined to comment on Wednesday.                                                                          
In the neighboring villages of Walden and Maybrook, all of the incumbents were unopposed.                                                                                                                                               
In Walden, Mayor Sue Rumbold and Trustees Faith Moore and Lynn Thompson were re-elected. In Maybrook, Trustee James Barnett and Trustee Kevin Greany were elected for another term.

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