When Ship Bottom voters cast their ballots this year, they will choose a mayor in the borough’s first contested general election since the turn of the century.

Bill Fenimore and Jim Ulrich are facing off to succeed outgoing Mayor William Huelsenbeck. Fenimore joined the Ship Bottom Borough Council in January and is running for mayor during his first council term; he is also a former president of the Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education and a former member of the Ship Bottom Land Use…