An incumbent Ship Bottom borough council member up for re-election this year was censured by his peers for conduct unbecoming a council member and removed from all of his committee assignments for the rest of the year.

Councilman Peter J. Rossi, who is running unopposed on the Republican ticket to be returned to office, was censured at a special meeting July 9 after referring to another council member’s spouse in a derogatory manner by using a term that is “highly offensive and demeaning,”…