{"id":73516,"date":"2025-12-30T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73516\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:23:11","slug":"bethlehem-high-teacher-files-as-democratic-candidate-for-judge-executive-the-nelson-county-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73516\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem High teacher files as Democratic candidate for judge-executive \u2013 The Nelson County Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>NC GAZETTE \/ WBRT RADIO<br \/>STAFF REPORT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CORDER-MUG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2686\" style=\"width:125px;height:auto\"\/>BENJAMIN CORDER<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 29, 2025 \u2014 A Bethlehem High School teacher filed Monday as a Democratic candidate for Nelson County Judge-Executive.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin \u201cBen\u201d Corder filed his candidate paperwork Monday at the Nelson County Clerk\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bethlehem High School website, Corder is a math teacher at the school. His social media profile states he is a 2019 graduate of Bellarmine University.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS FILINGS.<\/p>\n<p>The following candidates filed earlier for local offices.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County Clerk \u2013 Jeanette Hall Sidebottom (D) **<br \/>Nelson County Judge-Executive \u2013 Tim Hutchins (R) **<br \/>County Attorney \u2013 Arch C. \u201cChip\u201d McKay (D) **<br \/>Nelson County Sheriff \u2013 Ramon \u201cP-RO\u201d Pineiroa (D) **<br \/>Nelson County Sheriff \u2014 William Jarren Culver (R)<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County Jailer \u2013 Justin David Hall (R) **<br \/>Nelson County Coroner \u2013 Danielle Elizabeth Chladek (R) **<br \/>Nelson County Coroner \u2014 Kerry Monin (R)<br \/>Nelson County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) \u2013 Jason \u201cJay\u201d Williams (R) **<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate District 1 \u2013 Ballard Keith Metcalfe (D) **<br \/>Magistrate District 2 \u2013 Adam Wheatley (R) **<br \/>Magistrate District 2 \u2013 Gary Coulter (R) former D2 magistrate<br \/>Magistrate District 3 \u2014 M.T. Harned (R) **<br \/>Magistrate District 3 \u2014 Cameron Richards (D)<br \/>Magistrate District 4 \u2014 Don Thrasher (R), a resident of Colonel Cox Road.<br \/>Magistrate District 4 \u2014 Brent Brey (R), a resident of Antler\u2019s Trace<br \/>Magistrate District 5 \u2014 Robert Allen Chesser (R)<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County Surveyor \u2013 no filings<br \/>Nelson County Constable \u2013 no filings<\/p>\n<p>The filing deadline for the 2026 primary is 4p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Note: ** indicates incumbent candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-30-<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; NC GAZETTE \/ WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT BENJAMIN CORDER Dec. 29, 2025 \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-73516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73516","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=73516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}