The General Election balloting in Northern Carbon County on Tuesday featured a contest among seven candidates who aspired to seats on the Beaver Meadows Borough Council.

There were also contested races in the Weatherly and the Hazleton school districts.Otherwise, there were no challenges in Banks, Lausanne, Lehigh and Packer townships, nor in Weatherly or East Side Borough.Beaver MeadowsDemocrat Jeffrey S. Bobish won two positions mayor and council in yesterday's balloting in Beaver Meadows Borough.An incumbent councilman, Bobish was unopposed for the four-year term as mayor and collected 151 token votes. He will succeed Mayor William Hines, who is retiring from the position.Bobish was one of four persons who won four-year terms on the borough council, although it is likely he will not accept that position. He finished fourth among seven candidates who sought the four four-year terms.The top vote-getter was Republican Mary Rayno, an incumbent, with 130 votes. Finishing second was R.J. Cryder, a Democrat, with 120 votes, while Suzanne Hines, who appeared on both ballots, was third with 118 votes, followed by Bobish with 112.Failing to win a term were Democrat E. Kathleen Moro and Republicans Thomas Katchur and Robert D. Rossi. They finished with 85, 63 and 52 votes, respectively.There was no candidate yesterday for the four-year term as tax collector in the borough. The current tax collector, Michael Komishock, a Republican who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Kathleen Moro, won a nomination May but had withdrawn from the ballot. There were six write-in votes cast yesterday in that balloting which are likely to fill the term.Borough voters were also slated to elect two people to serve on the board of auditors, one for a six-year term and the other for a four-year term. There were no candidates for the positions and only one write-in vote was received in the two races.WASD boardThree incumbents and a newcomer won four-year terms on the Weatherly Area School District Board of Education on Tuesday.The winners included incumbents Corey Gerhart, Amy Potsko and Girard A. Fewins Sr. and newcomer Brandon Pugh.Gerhart, Potsko and Pugh appeared on both ballots with Gerhart being the top vote-getter with 665 votes. Pugh followed with 575 votes while Potsko was third with 494.The fourth position went to Fewins, a Republican, with 445 votes. Libertarian Bonita Lee Barbush and Democrat Victoria Elliott lost out, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively, with 260 and 226 votes in that order.Potsko also won a two-year term on the board. She was unopposed and received 589 token votes in that balloting.The district includes the boroughs of Weatherly and East Side and the townships of Lausanne, Lehigh and Packer, as well as the Kidder-North voting precinct.Hazleton SchoolsVoters in Banks Township and Beaver Meadows also participated in the balloting for four four-year terms on the Hazleton Area School District Board of Education.There were five people running for the four positions, including three who won both Democratic and Republican nominations in the primary. They are James G. Chapman, Bob Mehalick and Clarence John.Meanwhile, two persons appear in a head-to-head contest as they appear on separate ballots. After both the Primary and a special election held in July in the Carbon precincts of the school district, as well as voting wards in Schuylkill County, Carmella Yenkevich emerged as the fourth Democratic candidate while Jared M. O'Donnell won the fourth GOP nomination.Yenkevich initially lost races in both parties, but was declared the Democratic nominee after a special election was held in July because a candidate's name (Stephen Hahn) was incorrectly left on the ballots in May in Carbon and Schuylkill counties after the candidate had withdrawn from the race.In Carbon yesterday, Chapman finished first with 372 votes, followed by Mehalick, 329, O'Donnell, 301, John, 288, and Yenkevich, 274.Banks TownshipThe race for a six-year term on the Banks Township Board of Supervisors was really decided in May, when newcomer Joseph Clark won a Democratic challenge over incumbent Walter Bobowski and was also a successful candidate on the GOP side.He appeared on both ballots yesterday and received 321 votes. Bobowski had announced intentions to seek the write-in vote. There were 11 write-in votes that were of no significance in the balloting.Meanwhile, Tax Collector Irene Makowiec, a Democrat, was unopposed and re-elected to another four-year term. She garnered 314 complimentary votes.Democrat William Paul Dever, also a Democrat, was the only other person on the ballot in Banks. He ran unopposed for the position of auditor and received 301 token votes.Lausanne TownshipThere was a shortage of candidates on yesterday's ballot in Lausanne Township.Supervisor Edward S. Klynowsky, a Democrat, did not seeking re-election, meaning a six-year term of office on the board was up for grabs. The problem is there was no candidate on either ballot, although 11 write-in votes will apparently decide who wins the position.Lausanne voters also voted on the four-year tax collector's post, where incumbent Carol Tulay, a Democrat, sought re-election. She received 23 token votes.Township voters were also slated to elect one person to serve on the board of auditors for a six-year term. There were no candidates for the position although one person apparently received a write-in vote for the post.Lehigh TownshipTwo incumbents who sought re-election to their Lehigh Township positions on Tuesday were without opposition.Wayne Wagner and Teresa M. Barna, both Republicans, face no opposition. Wagner won a return to a six-year term on the board of supervisors with 74 token votes while Barna was re-elected as the township's tax collector for another four years with 95 complimentary votes.Republican Cynthia Baade was the only other candidate on the township ballot. She collected 72 complimentary votes in pursuit of a six-year term as auditor.Packer TownshipVoters in Packer Township faced no municipal decisions on the ballot yesterday.Incumbent Supervisor Grover Gerhard was the lone candidate for the six-year term on the board. He received 136 token votes.There was no candidate for the tax collector's position, a four-year term being vacated by Lynn Nyer who opted not to run for re-election. Twenty-nine township voters submitted write-in votes that are likely to determine who wins the position.Township voters were also slated to elect three persons to serve on the board of auditors, one for a six-year term, one for a four-year term and the other for a two-year term. There were no candidates for the positions that will be filled by write-in votes once they are calculated.East Side BoroughThere was a shortage of candidates in the East Side Borough municipal balloting yesterday, when the voters were expected to fill three positions on the town council.There are only two candidates on the ballot for the four-year terms were Democrats Sharon Mrozinski and Elizabeth Berger. Both incumbents, they received 29 and 28 votes, respectively.Mayor Gerald D. Jones Jr., a Democrat, ran for re-election to another four-year term of office and was without opposition. He received 23 token votes.No one sought the four-year term as borough tax collector where the current collector, Lisa P. Jones, did not seeking re-election. Twenty-one write-in votes will be reviewed to determine the winner of that race.WeatherlyWeatherly Borough voters selected four persons to fill four-year terms on the borough council yesterday.Topping the ballot was Joseph E. D'Andrea with 317 votes, followed by three Republicans, including Norman B. Richie, 273, Harold "Chipper" Farrow, 257, and Cecelia "Cece" Gower, 249.Tax Collector Sandra E. Eroh, a Democrat, ran unopposed for re-election to another four-year term. She received 347 complimentary votes.