ELLWOOD CITY – The Ellwood City Kitchen Cabinet residents group and Lincoln High School’s Government Club will co-sponsor a pair of meet-the-candidates events later this month.

There will be a forum for Ellwood City Area School Board candidates on April 25, followed by a session for Ellwood City Council on April 30. Both events will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Ellwood City Municipal Building second-floor auditorium.

Earla Marshall, a founding member of Kitchen Cabinet, announced the candidates nights this week and said everyone on the ballot for school board and borough council in next month’s primary would be notified of the events by registered mail.

Candidates for school board, in the order in which they will appear on the Democratic ballot, are Anthony Buzzelli, Tracy Geniviva, Kathleen Pansera, Renee Pitrelli and Matthew Morella.

Because school board candidates can cross-file, the same candidates – along with Norm Boots III, who is listed only as a Republican – will run in the GOP primary.

In ballot order, the school board Republican slate is Geniviva, Morella, Boots, Pitrelli, Pansera and Buzzelli.

With four open seats Buzzelli, the current school board president, and Pansera are running for re-election. Current school board members David Reese, who has missed several meetings recently because of health problems, and Anthony Cortez, did not file to run for re-election.

Borough council candidates in the May 21 primary for four Democratic nominations primary are, in ballot order, Judith Dici, Brad Ovial, Jim Arkett, Rocco Ierino, Michele Lamenza, Gene Coccia, and Anthony “Lefty” DeCarbo.

Republican candidates are George Celli, David DeCaria, Connie MacDonald, Michael Parisi, Torrey Jones and Mike Capalbo.

DeCarbo, council president, and Dici and Celli are running for re-election. Ovial, who was appointed last month to replace the late Councilman Glenn Jones, is running for a full four-year term on council.