{"id":18968,"date":"2025-10-29T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18968\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:21:04","slug":"mayors-of-dunmore-olyphant-and-dickson-city-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18968\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors of Dunmore, Olyphant and Dickson City seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic mayors are running for reelection against political newcomers in Dunmore, Olyphant and Dickson City.<\/p>\n

The election is Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Republican Josh Perrins, candidate for mayor of Dunmore.\n<\/p>\n

\"Mayor<\/p>\n

Mayor Max Conway of Dunmore. (Submitted)\n<\/p>\n

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Republican Josh Perrins, candidate for mayor of Dunmore.\n<\/p>\n

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\nDunmore<\/p>\n

Dunmore Mayor Max Conway, a Democrat, faces Republican Josh Perrins.<\/p>\n

After a \u201cpretty steep learning curve,\u201d Conway said he seeks another term to continue plans to improve the downtown. His opponent says Conway \u201cjust doesn\u2019t have the oomph.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to get quite a bit done in my first term so far,\u201d Conway said. \u201cAnd I feel like we really laid a lot of the groundwork for what we can now start to implement in a potential second term.\u201d<\/p>\n

A \u201cDowntown Dunmore Plan\u201d was written to aid small businesses and make the borough more walkable. \u201cEverybody seems to be on board with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Stage two is aggressively applying for more grants to pay for projects, he said. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that mid my next term we will see some construction going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The borough bought a lot in Dunmore Corners that will become a pocket park.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the time I have taken office as mayor, I think that there has been a kind of crazy amount of development around here. That\u2019s not all because of me by any means. But I just think people believe in Dunmore and they want to be here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Conway is proud that all police officers now wear body cameras, that officers have been promoted during his term and that Christmas in the Corners is coming up on its fourth season.<\/p>\n

Outside of Dunmore, Conway\u2019s name was in the news earlier this year, when Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan tried and failed to get him appointed in place of a commissioner who resigned<\/a>. That would have led to Conway resigning as mayor before his term was over.<\/p>\n

If reelected, Conway would serve the entire term, he said. \u201cI have no other plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe things work out the way they are supposed to and I am right where I should be right now and that is focused on Dunmore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Conway, 33, sells real estate with Christian Saunders Real Estate in Dunmore.\u00a0He is married to WNEP meteorologist Ally Gallo. Conway graduated from Dunmore High School and Temple University, with a political science degree.<\/p>\n

His only comment about his opponent is that he respects anyone who puts themselves forward for public service.<\/p>\n

In turn, Perrins said Conway is a nice person who \u201cjust doesn\u2019t have the oomph.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perrins said his top priorities would be improving the roads, development, and building up the police, fire and public works departments.<\/p>\n

He proposes reaching out to schools and colleges to recruit and train workers.<\/p>\n

To boost recruitment, Perrins also wants to allow police officers and firefighters to live outside the municipality. Currently, firefighters must live in the borough and there are restrictions on where police officers can live.<\/p>\n

He thinks more should be done to recruit businesses to the borough. He noted that Amazon plans to build a distribution center in Hanover Twp. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they come here?\u201d Perrins asked.<\/p>\n

Perrins said the county Republican Party has \u201cdipped\u201d on him. He thinks there are two reasons: He supports some local and national Democrats and works at a pharmaceutical company that makes vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not MAGA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party of Lackawanna County did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Perrins works for a Monroe County location of Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical firm. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in microbiology from East Stroudsburg University.<\/p>\n

This is his first run for office. Perrins, 37, graduated from the now-closed Coughlin High School in Wilkes-Barre and has lived in Dunmore for several years. He is married to Maureen Perrins.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Jonathan Sedlak, Democrat of Olyphant. (Courtesy Jonathan Sedlak)\n<\/p>\n

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Lauren Telep, Republican candidate for Olyphant mayor (Courtesy of Lauren Telep)\n<\/p>\n

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Mayor Jonathan Sedlak, Democrat of Olyphant. (Courtesy Jonathan Sedlak)\n<\/p>\n

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\nOlyphant mayoral race<\/p>\n

In Olyphant, Democratic Mayor Jonathan Sedlak is challenged by Republican Lauren Telep, who promotes community events as a volunteer.<\/p>\n

Sedlak was appointed mayor in 2022, following the death of his father, John Sedlak. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s gone past honoring my father,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sedlak said he is proud of hiring police officers and investing in technology, such as updating police body cameras, a drone program and upgrading the computers in police vehicles.<\/p>\n

He is pursuing state and federal grants to update the police station and build a garage for police vehicles. Currently, police vehicles are parked under a carport, which is not enclosed.<\/p>\n

It is important to \u201ccontinue that path, making sure they have everything that they need to go ahead and be safe\u201d and effective, he said,<\/p>\n

Sedlak, 42, is a senior merchant success manager for ShipMonk, a fulfillment company. He is married to Kristal Sedlak.<\/p>\n

Sedlak and Telep have only good things to say about each other. Telep says she doesn\u2019t feel as though she is running specifically against Sedlak.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Olyphant,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been involved with a lot of activities going on in the town, and I just feel I could be a positive addition to the group that\u2019s there in town right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is good,\u201d she said, \u201cbut we can always make it better working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is a volunteer photographer and publicist for many civic groups, submitting their announcements to the press and posting on social media. She is active in SS Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Telep is an Olyphant native who returned to the borough about 17 years ago. She is retired from working in the business sector and is a graduate of Penn State. She turns 70 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Dickson City mayoral race<\/p>\n

In Dickson City, Democratic incumbent Robert W. MacCallum is opposed by a write-in Republican candidate, Mellody Bielawski. She is on the ballot thanks to 41 write-in votes in the primary election.<\/p>\n

Four-year terms<\/p>\n

In all three municipalities, mayors work part time for a small stipend and serve four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic mayors are running for reelection against political newcomers in Dunmore, Olyphant and Dickson City. The election is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1099,2136,836,201,182,883,139,2120,28,50,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-18968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-dickson-city","9":"tag-dunmore","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-lackawanna-county","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-local-politics","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-olyphant","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-scranton","19":"tag-scranton-headlines","20":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968","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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}