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Perth Amboy mayor will announce 4th term bid today

August 17, 2020 9:00 am

Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz will formally announce her bid for re-election to a fourth term today. Diaz will also unveil her slate of city council candidates. Councilman Helmin Caba and attorney Joseph B. Vas are already in the race....

Elizabeth councilwoman is new acting Perth Amboy administrator

August 8, 2020 1:45 pm

Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz has named Patricia Perkins-Auguste as the acting city business administrator. Perkins-Auguste, a seven-term Elizabeth city councilwoman, replaced Frederick Carr. Diaz fired Carr last month. The post pays $125,000-per-year, according to Council President William Petrick. Petrick...

Joseph Vas announces bid for Perth Amboy mayor

July 9, 2020 6:16 pmJuly 10, 2020 11:04 am

Joseph Vas, the son of former Perth Amboy Mayor Joe Vas, officially announced his bid for his father’s former seat Thursday. “Whether it’s providing safe drinking water, controlling the spread of Covid-19, the highest rate in the county, or the...

Caba enters race for Perth Amboy mayor

June 18, 2020 5:26 pmJune 19, 2020 12:40 am

Pledging to end “turbulence” in City Hall, Councilman Helmin J. Caba today announced that he would run for mayor of Perth Amboy in the November non-partisan election. Caba will face incumbent Wilda Diaz, who is seeking re-election to her fourth...

Arline Friscia, former Middlesex assemblywoman, dies at 84

October 18, 2019 11:52 amOctober 19, 2019 11:31 am

Arline M. Friscia, who served eight years as a New Jersey assemblywoman where she sponsored a law top expand the state’s family leave law, died on Wednesday. She was 84. In 1995, Friscia unseated Republican incumbents who had captured Middlesex...