Published October 28. 2025 02:45PM<\/p>\n
The two Times News area municipalities from Northampton County \u2014 Lehigh Township and Walnutport \u2014 will participate in county at-large voting for county executive and council positions in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
Lehigh Township voters have a challenged race for the six-year term on the board of supervisors. The township voters will also take part in the balloting for the four-year contested term representing Region 1 on the Northampton Area School District Board of Education.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, there are no contests in either municipality, or for seats on the Northern Lehigh School District Board of Education, of which Walnutport voters are represented.<\/p>\n
Here is a look at what voters will see on the ballots of the respective municipalities:<\/p>\n
Northampton County<\/p>\n
The four-year term as county executive is up for grabs, and Lehigh Township and Walnutport voters participate in the at-large voting.<\/p>\n
The race is between Democrat Tara Zrinski and Republican Tom Giovanni.<\/p>\n
In the at-large county council race, five people will be elected to four-year terms. Those candidates include Democrats David Holland, Theresa Fadem, Lorio Vargo Heffner, Jason Boulette and Nadeem Qayyum; and Republicans Sam Elias, John P. Goffredo, John Brown, Daniel Campo and Juan E. Martinez.<\/p>\n
Lehigh Township<\/p>\n
The supervisors race is between Democrat James T. Barnes and Republican Janet Sheats.<\/p>\n
Unopposed candidates in the township include Republican Suzanne Hawke, who is running for the four-year term as tax collector; Republican Kristin Lorah-Soldridge, seeking the four-year term as judge of elections in the Danielsville District; Republican Jeannine Gerrity, seeking the four-year term as judge of elections in the Pennsville District; Democrat Patricia Amey, running for the four-year term as judge of elections in the Treichlers District; Republican Cathy Riley, seeking the four-year term as judge of elections in the Northwestern District; Democrat Cindy Rifenburg and Republican Randy Mertz, who are running for the four-year terms as inspectors of elections in the Danielsville District; and Republican Deborah Heckenberger, running for the four-year term as inspector of elections in the Pennsville District.<\/p>\n
No one is running for the four-year terms as inspectors of elections in the Danielsville, Treichlers or Northwestern districts.<\/p>\n
Walnutport Borough<\/p>\n
There are no contests in the borough this time around.<\/p>\n
Unopposed candidates include Democrat Wayne Weidner, who is running for the four-year term as mayor; Republican Kristine Wentling, aspiring to the four-year term as tax collector; and Democrat Jennifer Wentz and Republicans David Wentling, Nancy Treskot and Patrice Hunsicker, who are seeking the four four-year terms on the council.<\/p>\n
No one is running for the four-year terms as judge of elections or inspector of elections in the borough.<\/p>\n
Lehigh Township<\/p>\n
The township voters will have a decision for the four-year term representing Region 1 of the Northampton school board. The candidates are Democrat Douglas Vaughn and Republican Zachary Kramer.<\/p>\n
Northern Lehigh School Board<\/p>\n
Walnutport voters will participate in the balloting for four four-year terms on the Northern Lehigh School District Board of Education, although there is no contest in that race.<\/p>\n
Unopposed are Angela Williams, Gary Fedorcha and Crystal Bilby, while the fourth candidate, Timothy D. Weaber, is a Republican candidate.<\/p>\n
No one is running in the district for a two-year term on the board.<\/p>\n
Slatington Borough and Washington Township voters in Lehigh County also comprise the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 28. 2025 02:45PM The two Times News area municipalities from Northampton County \u2014 Lehigh Township and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-17945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}