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Lee Laskin, GOP senator from Camden County, dies at 87

April 19, 2024 11:38 amApril 21, 2024 8:00 pm

Lee B. Laskin, a Republican state senator from Camden County who cast the deciding vote to give tenure to Chief Justice Robert Wilentz in 1986 and then lost his seat in a GOP wave election when South Jersey Democratic powerhouse...

In Memoriam

April 24, 2020 10:05 amApril 24, 2020 1:40 pm

James Garth, Sr., the chairman of the Egg Harbor Township Planning Board, died on April 21. He was 75. Garth was a U.S. Navy veteran who spent 50 years as a volunteer firefighter, 20 of them as chief. Hester Cobb,...

Mary Previte, former assemblywoman, dies at 87

November 18, 2019 11:09 amNovember 24, 2019 8:30 pm

Mary T. Previte, who served four terms as an assemblywoman from Camden County, died on November 16. She was 87. Previte had been hit by a car earlier this month. As a nine-year-old child, Previte spent more than three years...

John Strazzullo, former Pennsauken judge and Democratic official, dies at 83

March 5, 2019 10:24 amMarch 5, 2019 10:30 am

John Strazzullo, whose election to the Pennsauken Township Committee in 1972 ended 76 years of Republican control, died on March 3. He was 83. He began his political career in 1969 as a candidate for the New Jersey State Assembly. ...

The story of the Terror of Trenton

November 16, 2018 3:51 pmNovember 17, 2018 5:13 am

Rep.-elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was anti-establishment right out of the box, including a reported fight over climate change with New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, putting the new congresswoman in the national limelight during the House freshman orientation this week in...