Casey Melvin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Uddin wins Paterson city council seat

May 18, 2022 8:48 pmMay 19, 2022 9:32 am

Md Forid Uddin has won an at-large seat on the Paterson City Council after a final tally of provisional and late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots on Wednesday. Uddin, a high school teacher, defeated barber shop owner Casey Melvin by 638 votes, 4,101...

Paterson council race still too close to call

May 13, 2022 2:51 pmMay 16, 2022 1:09 am

The race for an open at-large seat on the Paterson City Council remains too close to call, with a huge number of ballots still uncounted – roughly ten times the margin between the two top candidates — and no winner...