A supervisor’s race in Banks Township and borough council competition in East Side and Weatherly boroughs highlights the general election municipal balloting on Nov. 2.

Otherwise, there are no contested races in either Beaver Meadows Borough or Lausanne, Lehigh or Packer townships.

Banks Township

The race in Banks is between Democrat Rick Porpiglia and Republican Richard P. Hornick Sr. for the six-year term on the board of supervisors.

Meanwhile, there are four other people who appear on the township’s ballot and all of them are unopposed.

All Democrats, they include: Marian Lockwood, running for the four-year term as tax collector; David J. Bodnar Jr., seeking the six-year term on the board of auditors; Bruce Knepper, who is running for the six-year term as constable; and David J. Bodnar Sr., aspiring to the four-year term as judge of elections.

No one is running for four-year terms as inspectors of elections. One Democrat and one Republican are scheduled to be elected to those posts.

East Side Borough

In East Side Borough, seven candidates are seeking four four-year terms on the borough council. Voters will get to choose between Democrats Sharon Mrozinski, Elizabeth Berger and John Marotta and Republicans Joseph G. Lachette Jr., Michael Best, Louis A. Esa and Helen Jones.

Republican Lisa Jones is the only other candidate on the town’s municipal ballot. She is running for the four-year term as tax collector.

Other East Side positions that are slated to be decided in which there are no candidates include mayor, four-year term; constable, six-year term; judge of elections, four-year term; and inspectors of elections, both Democrat and Republican, four-year terms.

Weatherly Borough

Five people are seeking four four-year terms on the Weatherly Borough Council. They include Democrats Theresa D’Andrea, Leslie Moyer, Jeffery Miller and Vincent A. Cuddeford II. D’Andrea, Miller and Cuddeford will also appear on the GOP ballot, as will Norman B. Richie.

Unopposed candidates on the Weatherly ballots this time around include: Deborah A. Kohler, running on both tickets for the four-year term as tax collector; Richard C. Giordano Sr., who also appears on both tickets as a candidate for the six-year term as constable; Barbara J. Cunnius, Democrat, running for the four-year term as judge of elections in the East District; D’Andrea and Virginia L. Houser, who are seeking Democratic and Republican inspector of elections positions, respectively, which are four-year terms in the East District; and Republican Ruth Sabol, who is seeking the four-year term as inspector of elections in the West District.

No one is running for the four-year terms of judge of elections in the West District, nor the Democratic inspector of elections position in the West District, which is a four-year term.

Beaver Meadows Borough

There are no challenged contests in Beaver Meadows this time around, as five candidates seeking elected positions are all unopposed.

They include Republican Thad Williams, running for the four-year term as mayor; Republican Mary Ellen Hines, seeking the four-year term as tax collector; Republican John Tranguch Jr., candidate for the four-year term as judge of elections; and Shirley A. Kessell and Judith Tranguch, both Republican candidates, for the four-year terms as inspectors of elections.

No one is running in the borough for three four-year terms on the borough council, nor the six-year term as constable, that are scheduled to be decided by the voters.

Lausanne Township

There is a lone candidate who will appear on the municipal ballot in Lausanne Township. She is Carol Tulay, a Democrat who is unopposed for the four-year term as tax collector.

Otherwise, there are no candidates in the township for seven positions that are scheduled to be filled by the township’s voters. They include: supervisor, six-year term; auditors, six-year and four-year terms; constable, six-year term; judge of elections, four-year terms; and inspectors of elections, both Democrat and Republican, four-year terms.

Lehigh Township

Two Republicans who appear on the Lehigh Township municipal ballot are unopposed. They include Larry D. Skinner, who is seeking the six-year term as supervisor; and Teresa M. Barna, who is running for the four-year term as tax collector.

There are six other positions in the township that are slated to be elected this year, however, there are no candidates for the posts, which include: auditors, six-year and two-year terms; constable, six-year term; judge of elections, four-year term; and inspectors of elections, both Democrat and Republican, four-year terms.

Packer Township

There are five candidates who appear on the municipal ballot in Packer Township. All unopposed Republicans, they are Sue Ann Gerhard, who is seeking the six-year term on the board of supervisors; Valerie Kane, who is running for the four-year term as tax collector; George J. Bozar III, who is seeking the six-year term as constable; Alicia Nyer, who is running for the four-year term as judge of elections; and Kristin Wilkinson, running for the four-year term as inspector of elections.

There are no candidates in Packer for two auditor’s positions, six-year and two-year terms; nor the four-year term as Democratic inspector of elections.

Magisterial district

In Northern Carbon County, Magisterial District Judge Joseph D. Homanko Sr. is seeking re-election to a six-year term in District 56-3-04 and is unopposed, having won both the Democratic and Republican nominations in May.

The district consists of Beaver Meadows East Side and Weatherly boroughs and Banks, Kidder, Lausanne, Lehigh and Packer townships.

Other choices

Voters in the Northern part of the county will fill positions and/or make choices in several other election matters, including: retention votes of “yes” or “no” for President Judge Roger N. Nanovic and Judge Joseph J. Matika for 10-year terms on the Carbon County Court of Common Pleas; challenged races for 10-year terms as Justice of the Supreme Court and judges of the Superior and Commonwealth courts (two terms) of Pennsylvania; and challenged county races for four-year terms as treasurer and clerk of courts.

There are no contests for the county register of wills/clerk of the orphans’ court race, nor the balloting for positions on the Weatherly (voters in Lausanne, Lehigh, Packer, East Side and Weatherly; also included Kidder Township’s Northern District) and Hazleton (Banks and Beaver Meadows) school districts boards of education, as candidates who appear the ballots for those races are all unopposed.

Jean Papay is unopposed for the register’s post, a four-year term, having won both the Democratic and Republican nominations in May, while four candidates are cross-filed for the four four-year terms on the Weatherly Area School Board are also cross-filed. They include Barbara Sipler, Shay McGee, Kenneth Jacoby III and Nancy Mulvaney.