Lyndhurst Unity ticket defeats Clean Sweep, independent candidate
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The Lyndhurst Unity ticket will remain in power, defeating the Clean Sweep ticket which has been extremely critical of the current Board of Commissioners and an independent candidate in Tuesday s election.
Lyndhurst has a Walsh Act form of government, with five nonpartisan commissioners. Robert Giangeruso, Richie Jarvis, Karen Haggerty and John Montillo are incumbents, and Louis DeMarco is a newcomer on the Unity ticket. DeMarco will replace the outgoing commissioner of recreation, Thomas DiMaggio.
On the Clean Sweep ticket were David Sivella, Elaine Stella, Darwin Belen, Chris Chiswell and Mykalos Perevicius. Darius Hughes, a Lyndhurst Middle School teacher, ran as an independent.
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