Elton E. Hill, a prominent Essex County political strategist who helped run Kenneth Gibson’s 1970 campaign to become the first Black mayor of Newark, died on July 11. He was 89. Hill and Gibson were childhood friends and he became...
Carmen Orechio, a former Senate President who spent forty years in Nutley local politics, passed away today. He was 91. Orechio launched his political career in 1968 when he won his first of nine elections as a Nutley Commissioner. He...