Hazlet BOE to Interview Potential members

Hazlet Township Board of Education plans to interview eight candidates seeking to fill an empty seat on the school board in January.

According to Superintendent Bernard Bragen, 8 people have applied to fill a vacancy left after Glenn Mason decided to not fill the seat.

Mason won a three-year term to the school board in November, but turned down the position because he had just been hired by the school district as a part-time security officer. 

Whomever is selected by the school board would serve until the end of the year. Candidates to fill the remaining two years of the unexpired term will run for election in November.

Glenn, a former police officer and school board member, was elected to the 9-member board a for three-year term along with incumbents Lauri O'Leary and Carol Gaffney. Thomas Herman won the one-year unexpired term vacated by Sameer Doshi.