Bloomfield Board of Education member Kent Weisert was running unopposed.
Bloomfield Board of Education member Kent Weisert was running unopposed. File photo of Bloomfield High School. (Jessica Mazzola | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)BLOOMFIELD -- A member of the board of education who was planning to seek reelection next week has died, school officials confirmed.
Kent Weisert, a one-term member of the Bloomfield Board of Education, died last week, officials said. According to Weisert's obituary, he was 66.
Weisert was seeking reelection, along with other incumbent board members Daniel Anderson and Ruth Hidalgo. The race was unopposed. School and county officials confirmed that Weisert's name will remain on the ballot.
According to a representative from the Essex County Clerk's Office, the board of education will likely appoint someone to fill the position through next November, when an election for the two years remaining on the term can be held.
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Weisert was a graduate of Rutgers, and a labor and employment lawyer, his obituary says. He had lived in the same house in Bloomfield for his entire life, it says.
In a Patch.com interview about the 2012 school board election, Weisert said he wanted to serve on the board as a way to give back to a community he loved.
"I received a first rate education in Bloomfield," he said in the interview. "I want to contribute to continuing this fine tradition for our children currently in the school system and in the future."
A memorial service for Weisert will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Rutherford at 10 a.m. on Thursday.
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