By Keith Walker

Published: May 6, 2008

John C. Cole, Susan M. Shuryn, Oswald Vazquez and Robert B. “Bob” Weir, the four incumbents running for the Haymarket Town Council, were re-elected Tuesday.

They will be joined by newcomers Susan E. Edwards and David M. Leake.

Ellie Cole, who was appointed to fill her husband John C. Cole’s seat while he in Iraq as a Department of Defense civilian employee, said she would notify her husband immediately with the news of his re-election.

“He will be very pleased. I’m going to go home right now and send him an e-mail so that when he wakes up in the morning he’ll know he made it,” she said.

Edwards said her first priority is to work on the town center deal that will bring 15 to 18 new businesses and a plaza to the town.

She said the council needs to “get all that taken care of.”

Leake, who earned 60 votes, said he would work on getting getting familiar with the workings of the council.

“I think I can pick it up really quick,” he said.

Weir, who earned 75 votes, said his first order of business would be to finish and approve the town’s comprehensive plan.
“We’ll see how everything shakes out. It’s going to be interesting,” he said.

Mayor Pamela E. Stutz, who ran unopposed, received 93 of the 129 votes that were cast in the election. There are 708 registered voters in the Town of Haymarket, according to an election official who worked Tuesday at the polling place at the Pace West School on John Marshall Highway.

Cole won with 84 votes. Edwards won with 85 votes.  Shuryn earned 67 votes. and Vasquez won his seat on the council with 69 votes.

Council members Natasha A Sikorsky and Sheila L. Jarboe did not run for re-election.