Cory Spillar, Sharon McAuliffe Are President, VP Of Woodbridge Council

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Councilman Cory Spillar will be the Woodbridge Council president in 2025, and Sharon McAuliffe will be vice president.

Spillar represents the Third Ward, which includes Avenel and Port Reading. Spillar is a lifelong Woodbridge resident; he's been a volunteer firefighter in Avenel for 30 years, serving as fire chief and fire company president. Spillar is currently employed as the Avenel Fire Prevention Bureau fire official.

McAuliffe is well known in town as the owner of Knot Just Bagels, which famously had to close in 2020 when the Modera apartment complex was built in its place.

Knot Just Bagels is now open in its new home at 93 Main Street, and McAuliffe owns that building, so she took the whole transition as a win. But the relocation of Knot Just Bagels was emblematic of just how much new development has taken place in Woodbridge in the past 10 years.

Despite the fact that her small business was forced to close and relocate, McAuliffe always remained positive and she never criticized Mayor John McCormac. In this 2021 Patch article, she said: "I know not everyone likes all the new buildings, but in the long run I think it will help. Let's say you have 500 new units, that's a potential for more than 500 new customers for all the Main Street businesses."

In 2022, McAuliffe was appointed by the council to fill the vacancy after the death of Nancy Bader Drumm, a Woodbridge Councilwoman who died at 62 years old after a nine-month battle with cancer.

Drumm and McAuliffe were good friends.

McAuliffe represents Woodbridge proper and Sewaren.

Prior: Woodbridge Owner Of Knot Just Bagels Talks To Patch (2021)

Longtime Woodbridge Councilwoman Nancy Bader Drumm Dies (Jan. 2022)