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Subpoenas dropped in Edison probe of adult cricket fields paid for Board of Education

May 20, 2022 11:28 amMay 20, 2022 2:27 pm

A grand jury empaneled to probe the construction an adult cricket field at a public school has subpoenaed records from the Edison Board of Education that appear to center around political allies of controversial Edison Democratic Municipal Chairman Mahesh Bhagia....

Low turnout across state in May 10 municipal elections

May 19, 2022 11:50 amMay 19, 2022 1:25 pm

With the exception of Ocean City and Union City, voter turnout in the May 10 non-partisan municipal elections was dismal, with more than 80% of registered voters not participating in eight of the towns that had non-partisan elections, according to...

Uddin wins Paterson city council seat

May 18, 2022 8:48 pmMay 19, 2022 9:32 am

Md Forid Uddin has won an at-large seat on the Paterson City Council after a final tally of provisional and late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots on Wednesday. Uddin, a high school teacher, defeated barber shop owner Casey Melvin by 638 votes, 4,101...

Princeton council retreats from cannabis sales controversey

May 18, 2022 2:02 pmMay 18, 2022 5:32 pm

In a classic NIMBY move, an ostensibly timid but self-proclaimed progressive Princeton Township Council has caved to public pressure and punted on a decision to permit a local cannabis dispensary, according to a report by TAPinto Princeton, which covered a...

It’s official: Jimmy Davis re-elected Bayonne mayor

May 17, 2022 11:02 amMay 17, 2022 4:39 pm

Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis has won re-election to a third term after the counting of provisional ballots in two wards on Tuesday morning give him enough of a cushion to avoid a runoff with his main challenger, City Council President...

Harold Curry, two-term Democratic assemblyman from Warren County in the 1960s, dies at 89

May 17, 2022 10:34 amMay 17, 2022 4:06 pm

Harold J. Curry, a Democrat who served as an assemblyman from Warren County from 1964 to 1968, died on March 21. He was 89. Curry was the Democratic candidate for Warren County Freeholder in 1962, running in President John F....

After Hill ouster, Norcross ends lawsuits against Republic First

May 17, 2022 10:09 am

South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross and two allies, his brother Philip and former TD Bank U.S. CEO Greg Braca, said today that they are withdrawing their lawsuits against Republic First Bancorp and its now-former chairman, Vernon Hill, now...