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Adults voting from parents home could determine outcome of Hunterdon school referendum

June 1, 2022 2:45 pmJune 1, 2022 4:18 pm

How long can an adult out of college and living on their own still keep voting from a parent’s home? That’s a question Superior Court Judge Michael O’Neill must decide in a court challenge to a $33.4 million South Hunterdon...

Awaiting appellate court ruling, Paterson ballots for May 10 election still not printed and mailed

April 21, 2022 1:54 pmApril 22, 2022 10:25 am

Vote-by-mail ballots for Paterson’s May 10 municipal election have still not gone out as election officials await a decision from two state appellate court judges who have had the case for more than a week. The judges, Mary Gibbons Whipple...

Passaic GOP asked federal judge to invalidate sheriff residency requirement law

April 19, 2022 9:54 am

Passaic County Republicans have gone to federal court in a bid to challenge the removal of their candidate for sheriff, Troy Oswald, challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring candidates to have lived in the county for three years....

Passaic GOP sheriff candidates tossed from ballot

April 12, 2022 7:20 pmApril 12, 2022 8:06 pm

The Republican candidate for Passaic County sheriff has been removed from the ballot because he doesn’t meet a three-year residency requirement to hold the office. Troy Oswald, a former Paterson police chief who had been a much-heralded recruit for the...

For challenge to N.J. congressional map, Supreme Court asks Democrats to respond to Wallace amplification

January 24, 2022 12:59 pmJanuary 24, 2022 11:59 pm

This story was updated at 2:34 PM. In what might be a careful scrutinization of congressional redistricting tiebreaker John E. Wallace, Jr.’s stated reason for picking the Democratic map, the New Jersey Supreme Court today ordered the Democratic commission members...

Democrats call GOP challenge to congressional map ‘frivolous,’ says NJ Constitution doesn’t require Wallace to be independent

January 7, 2022 9:31 amJanuary 7, 2022 6:47 pm

Democratic members of the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission are calling a Republican legal challenge to the new map “frivolous” and are threatening to seek sanctions and legal fees if they don’t withdraw it. The attorney for the Democrats, Raj...

Recount goes forward in Hunterdon school referendum

December 10, 2021 11:34 am

Superior Court Judge Michael F. O’Neill today ordered that a school district referendum held last month in Hunterdon County go to a recount, with the recount date set for December 14. The South Hunterdon Regional School District, which comprises Lambertville,...