School Board Elections Bring in New, Old Faces

The four winning school board candidates shared a celebratory meal at Applebees after a nervous couple of hours of watching the results trickle in at the Board of Education office.

Alison Cogan, Joseph Cistaro and Fran Orthwein beat out five other candidates for three seats on the Parsippany-Troy Hills school board, each with a three-year term. Frank Neglia beat out Anthony T Deintinis for an unexpired two-year term available on the board.

Here are the unofficial results according to the Morris County Board of Elections:

Three-year term:

• Joseph Cistaro 3,237 —16.40% 
• George L. Blair 2,378 —12.05% 
• Fran Orthwein 3,109 —15.75% 
• Dennis Kadian 1,176 —5.96% 
• Alison Cogan 3,812 —19.32%
• Tracey Meunier 1,702 —8.62%
• Timothy P. Berrios 2,505 —12.69%
• Jonathan Hemenway 1,789 —9.07%

Two-year term:

• Frank Neglia 4,214 59.21%
• Anthony T. DeIntinis 2,888 40.58%
  

“The children of Parsippany were the real winners,” said Orthwein. “We had a lot of fun and made new friends along the way. A group of six of us ran and supported each other.”

The six were Berrios, Blair, Cogan, Cistaro, Orthwein and Neglia.

Cistaro, Orthwein, Cogan and Neglia all thanked the votors “for coming out and supporting our team,” and thanked Blair, Berrios and Hemenway for their support as well.

“We all worked hard and worked together,” they said. “We don’t believe in cutting classes or class size. We want to promote education and the future of our schools. We’re all looking forward to working with the existing members and administration.”

“Education won tonight,” said Neglia. “We all have a common goal and that is the best interest of the children and students.”