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WELLSVILLE -- For the second election Nancy Murray and Jack Cataldo face off for the mayor's seat.
Cataldo is a former council member and Murray is the current mayor. Both say let the best candidate win.
Cataldo, is running as an independent, and he served on village council for 16 years. If elected Cataldo wants to work with the Sons of Italy to bring back the Italian Fest. He also wants to reintroduce the sidewalk program and to have winter potholes fixed by May. He says he will have an open door policy.
He ran Junior Tigers for 13 years, and he has served on the zoning board. Cataldo is currently the president of the Revitalization Committee.
As a council member he wrote the grants for the DARE Program and the boat marina. He plans to use his grant writing experience to find grants for handicap playground equipment, and funding for the police and fire departments. Cataldo also wants to bring back the marina and see the buildings on Main Street fixed.
Cataldo promises to bring out of the box thinking to the village. He plans to look for creative solutions to bring more revenue into the village, while maintaining fiscal responsibility. He wants to reintroduce mayor's court and bring the sewage department back to the village.
He graduated from Wellsville High School in 1963. He worked at Crucible Steel Mill, he served as an MP for two years in the Army, he did not see combat, and retired as a construction worker form the 809 Labor Union in 2007. Cataldo has three sons, one grandson and one great-grandson.
Murray is running as a Democrat. As mayor she has brought the village out of fiscal emergency, worked with the land bank to have vacant houses removed, received grants to repair the sewage plant and pave a truck route in the village. She has worked closely with village council and administration to accomplish these tasks.
Murray is proud of the administration she's named, and she believes she has placed the right people in the right positions.
If re-elected she plans to continue to improve the village's infrastructure. She wants to bring in new business, continue working with the land bank and cleaning up the village. Maintaining fiscal responsibility and increasing village revenue are also important to Murray.
Murray served on village council from 2014 to 2016. She also ran for mayor in 2012 but lost the election.
During her time as mayor, Murray received a breast cancer diagnosis. She said she missed hardly any council meetings while going through treatment. She has been cancer free for a year and a half.
She worked as a fiscal specialist at Job and Family Services for 23 years and she spent four years as a fiscal specialist in the East Liverpool Auditor's Office. She graduated from Southern Local High School and attended Stark Community College for job and family services certificates. Murray's husband Willis died in 2018, and she has two sons and four grandchildren.