FIORE IN AS NEW MIDDLETOWN MAYOR
Newly-elected Mayor Anthony Fiore delivers his first address at Middletown’s reorganization meeting Sunday.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Middletown’s mayoral hot seat now belongs to Anthony Fiore, who suggests that he’s ready to be unpopular.
Fiore, a Republican now in the third year of his first elected term to the township committee, succeeds two-time mayor Gerry Scharfenberger, who was sworn in as a committeeman at Sunday’s annual reorganization meeting.
In a steamy, overflowing meeting room, and bookended on the dais by his predecessor, Scharfenberger, and newcomer Kevin Settembrino, Fiore admitted that 2011 isn’t going to be easy.