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Murphy picks Schaffer for Sports Authority post

February 4, 2021 11:00 amFebruary 4, 2021 10:57 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate Peg Schaffer, the Somerset County Democratic Chair, and the vice chair of the Democratic State Committee, for a seat on the Sports and Exposition Authority. She will replace Bob Yudin, a former Bergen County Republican...

Republican official, 88, will seek re-election to a four-year term

January 18, 2021 5:27 pm

Thomas Kelaher, the 88-year-old former mayor of Toms River, is unopposed in his bid for re-election to another four-year term as the Republican State Committeeman from Ocean County. Kelaher, who retired as mayor in 2019, will seek his fourth term...

Warren Wolf, former assemblyman and famed football coach, dies at 92

November 23, 2019 1:08 amNovember 23, 2019 1:47 am

Former Assemblyman Warren H. Wolf, who served enjoyed a successful career Ocean County politics and a legendary high school football coach for more than 50 years, died on Friday. He was 92. Wolf was a Republican assemblyman from 1982 to...

Gilmore appointed Board of Elections successor hours before he resigned

May 16, 2019 5:24 pmMay 17, 2019 9:11 am

George Gilmore named his own replacement on the Ocean County Board of Elections during his final hours as county chairman, but his pick was torpedoed by a onetime ally, freeholder chair Virginia Haines. Gilmore resigned his seat on the Board...

Ocean GOP has no succession plan

January 11, 2019 12:33 am

Just when New Jersey Republicans thought things things could not can any worse, the head of the only big county GOP machine left in the state just got indicted. George Gilmore has been the boss in Ocean County since 1996,...

Carol Buckalew Dies

March 11, 2018 11:55 amMarch 11, 2018 5:47 pm

Carol Buckalew, the wife of civic leader and prominent political insider Joseph Buckalew for 62 years, passed away on March 9. She was 85. She was a New Jersey delegate to the 1984 Republican National Convention, pledged to Ronald Reagan,...