Joint Town Boards Tap Ron Feller to Fill Vacant County Legislature Seat

Wallkill and Montgomery town boards unanimously voted for Ronald Feller to fill a vacant County Legislature seat at a special joint meeting on Jan. 3. The District 9 seat was vacated by former county legislator Stephen Brescia, who left to serve as Town of Montgomery supervisor at the beginning of the year. Around 13,300 Town of Montgomery residents and 7,000 Town of Wallkill residents live in that legislative district, according to the 2020 U.S. Census data. A longtime Montgomery resident, Mr. Feller attended John Burke Catholic High School and Villanova University before joining the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War era. He worked at Con Edition for almost 30 years, commuting to New York City or Westchester each workday until around the time when his youngest daughter died of ovarian cancer....