Richard Plechner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Onetime N.J. GOP leader dies of Covid after being exposed to someone who refused vaccination

August 4, 2021 8:29 amAugust 4, 2021 8:54 am

Clark R. Allen, the founder of the Clinton First Aid and Rescue Squad and a major player in New Jersey Republican politics in the 1960s, died of complications related to COVID-19 after exposure to someone who declined to be vaccinated....

Donald Wernik, former Middlesex freeholder, Metuchen mayor, dies at 94

August 31, 2019 4:57 pmSeptember 1, 2019 5:50 pm

Donald J. Wernik, an All-State football star at Metuchen High School and World War II veteran who became a pharmacist, mayor of Metuchen and three-term Middlesex County Freeholder, died on Friday. He was 94. Wernik began in politics in an...