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Cope, Vaul Join Stone Harbor Council

 

By Leslie Truluck

STONE HARBOR – A new year of small town politics dawned when Mayor Suzanne Walters and newly elected council members Joanne Vaul and Thomas Cope took the oath of office at council’s reorganization meeting here Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Walters was sworn-in by her son for a fourth four-year term.
Borough Clerk Suzanne Stanford led the oath of office as Vaul’s husband Frank, daughter Lyndsy and son Adam stood nearby.
Cope was joined by his wife Nancy for the ceremony.
Cope and Vaul will each serve three-year terms.
Stanford announced that Walters had received 486 votes, Vaul 461 and Cope 435.
Councilman H. Brian Levinson contested for the mayor’s seat during the June primary election with G. Wayne Harris and Karen Lane vying for council seats held by Julian Miraglia and Anne Wannen, who didn’t run for a second term.
Councilman Karl Giulian was unanimously elected 2009 council president with Councilman Barry Mastrangelo’s nomination. Vaul seconded the motion as her first official act.
Vaul, a former Planning Board member, was elected as council representative to the board.
West Cape May Boy Scout Troop 73 presented the colors and offered a prayer.
Former deputy tax assessor Margaret Slavin was appointed to tax assessor for a four-year term as Harry Supple, Jr. has retired.
Also present were County Sheriff Gary Shaffer, Freeholder Len Desiderio, County Clerk Rita Fulginiti and Chairman of the Cape May County Regular Republican Organization David Von Savage.
Read more in the Herald’s Jan. 14 print edition.

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