Carbon County residents who are seeking to be elected to committeeships within the Democratic and Republican parties continued the process of filing nominating petitions in the Carbon County Board of Elections in the past week.

The deadline for filing petitions was Tuesday.Each party's bylaws dictate the number of committee positions that are to be filled by party members in the May 20 primary election.The Democratic Party rules call for one committeeman and one committeewoman from each of the 51 election precincts to be elected for a total of 102 members.The Republican Party rules are a little different. The GOP had 109 committee positions available on an at-large-by-municipality basis as follows: 16 in Penn Forest Township; eight each in Towamensing and Franklin townships; seven each in Lehighton, Jim Thorpe and Palmerton boroughs and Mahoning Township; five in East Penn Township; four each in Lansford, Nesquehoning, Summit Hill and Weatherly boroughs and Lower Towamensing Township; three each in Kidder Township South and Packer Township; and two each in Banks, Lausanne and Lehigh townships, Kidder Township North and Beaver Meadows, Bowmanstown, East Side, Parryville and Weissport boroughs.As of the close of business on Monday, the latest people to file nominating petitions to have their names on the ballots included:DemocratsKara Scott, Bowmanstown; Albert Holczman, District 8, East Penn Township; Terry J. Whiteman, District 12, and Gerard Bonamarte and Katherine Hosler, both in District 13, all of Franklin Township; Eugene A. Nalesnik, District 15, Anne C. Mason and Richard C. Mason, both of District 16, and Benjamin L. Walbert III and Carole J. Wildoner-Walbert, both of District 17, and Ronald J. Sheehan, District 18, all of Jim Thorpe; Terrance C. McCall, District 25, Lansford; Tibor Torok, District 28, Christine Eubanks, District 29, and Carol B. O'Brien, District 30, all of Lehighton; Bernard Mendez and Dorothy Mendez, both of District 32, and Brett T. Peters and Sandra L. Peters, both of District 33, all of Lower Towamensing Township; John J. Wieczorek, District 35, Mahoning Township; Frances A. Carazo, District 48, and Lorraine Wertman and Stuart R. Henritzy, both of District 49, all of Palmerton; Jeremy Haloskie, District 51-5, Penn Forest Township; Deborah J. Gigliotti and Robert F. Gigliotti, both of District 55, White Bear, Summit Hill; and Barbara M. Sipler, District 71, Weatherly.RepublicansKay Becker and Lee Becker, both of East Penn Township; Pamela Behler and Ryan Behler, both of Franklin Township; Mark A. Sverchek, Michael J. Hopstock, Jeremy T. Glaush and Kristen Marie Marks, all of Lehighton; Doyle M. Heffley and Kellie M. Heffley, Lower Towamensing Township; David W. Yeakel and Larry K. Heffley, both of Mahoning Township; Lamont C. Musselman, Palmerton; and James Nelson and Janet Nelson, both of Penn Forest Township.