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Murphy tinkers with some April elections

February 19, 2021 8:04 pm

An executive order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday that clarifies come confusion in Highland Park, Wrightstown and other municipalities that hold elections on April 20, allowing them to reconcile discrepancies in state election law to determine ballots, polling...

Charges were filed against a small-town N.J. mayor, but sewage scandal probably won’t hurt his re-election bid

September 5, 2020 6:20 pmSeptember 7, 2020 12:03 am

Criminal charges filed against a small-town mayor in a sewage scandal is a very New Jersey kind of story, but in a sort of “heads I win, tails I win” deal, it’s unlikely to affect the outcome of the general...

Wrightstown mayor charged with lying to investigators

September 4, 2020 3:37 pmSeptember 5, 2020 6:20 pm

Wrightstown Mayor Thomas Harper was charged with lying to state investigators looking at the unauthorized use of the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority to dump waste from a private septic disposal firm. Wright is also chairman of the authority. The longtime...

Comptroller says Wrightstown mayor okay’d under-the-table dumping deal

September 19, 2019 2:45 pmSeptember 19, 2019 2:46 pm

An investigation by the Office of the State Comptroller found Wrightstown Mayor Thomas Harper and Rodman Lucas, operations manager of the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority, entered into an improper waste disposal arrangement that benefited Lucas’s private waste disposal company. The...