Oxford’s township board is going to look a lot different in November with a new clerk and three new trustees.
For the first time in 36 years, there will be a new face occupying the clerk’s office and it belongs to Curtis Wright.
In a three-way race, Wright, who served as township supervisor from 1994-98, soundly defeated his opponents by receiving a total of 922 votes.
Clerk candidate Courtney Grove came in second with 464 votes while Doleen Behnke, who’s currently a township trustee, placed dead last with 417 votes.
Wright faces no challengers in the November general election.
Three new faces and one incumbent were selected to be township trustees in a nine-way race where only four could win.
Newcomer Mike Spisz was the top voter-getter among the trustee candidates garner ing 1,020 votes. Incumbent Trustee Sue Bellairs placed second with 906 votes.
Newcomers Joe Bunting and Melvin Cryderman garnered 869 and 735 votes respectively.
The losers in the trustee race were 20-year incumbent Pat Fitchena, who came in fifth with 671 votes, Helen Barwig (640), eight-year incumbent Charles Kniffen (606), Donald Silvester (524), and George Black (396).
The winning trustees will face one opponent in the November election ? village resident and DPW worker Rudy Reyes, who’s running with no party affiliation.
Supervisor Bill Dunn was easily re-elected as he trounced challenger Lawrence Kucemba 1,307 to 617.
Dunn faces no challengers in November.
Treasurer Joe Ferrari won the right in yesterday’s primary to face five nonparty-affiliated challengers in the November election. Ferrari garnered 1,418 votes. However, 50 people cast write-in votes for the treasurer’s spot.
Of the township’s 13,915 registered voters, a total of 3,032 (or 21.79 percent) participated in the Aug. 5 primary election.