New Shelton mayor 'the face of the city'

The new mayor of Shelton said he sees his role as being "the face of the city."

At the Jan. 4 Shelton City Council meeting, Eric Onisko was elected to be the new mayor by a 5-2 vote, with Joe Schmit receiving two votes. Onisko and Schmit were among the four council members sworn in for four-year terms earlier that evening.

This is the second term for the 54-year-old Onisko, who owns the Hillcrest Shell and the Bayshore Texaco.

"I think we work well together, and we have nowhere to go but up," Onisko said of the seven-person council in an interview with the Journal.

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