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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...

A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....