WESTMORELAND COUNTY VOTERS RETURN THREE LOCAL JUDGES TO THE COMMON PLEAS COURT BENCH

Westmoreland County voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly returned three local judges to the Common Pleas Court bench.  With all 306 precincts reporting, incumbent judges Tim Krieger, Scott Mears and Harry Smail Jr. won new 10-year terms.  In the race for Latrobe mayor, incumbent Eric Bartels held off challenger Christine Marquis to win a 2^nd term.  Michelle Langdon beat out incumbent Curtis Antoniak in the race for Jeannette mayor.  And longtime Hempfield Supervisor Doug Weimer won his fifth term on the board in a tight race.  In the 6-way race for 4 four-year terms on the Ligonier Valley School Board, newcomers Sarah Rovedatti and Robert Fryman and incumbents Christy Boyd and Cindy Brown were the winners.  West Newton’s mayor, 71-year-old Democrat Mary Popovich, held off a challenge from Republican Robert Kepics, to win a 5^th term in office.  Kepics was a political newcomer who was making his first run for public office. Also, Republican incumbents Jeff Keefer and Justin Morrow won landslide victories Tuesday for seats on the three-member East Huntingdon board of supervisors.