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Christine McGrath wins big in Verona

May 14, 2019 9:12 pmMay 15, 2019 12:19 pm

Verona residents elected Christine McGrath to the Township Council Tuesday, scoring a huge win for the town’s progressives. McGrath, who heads the local chapter of Moms Demand Action and serves as president of Friends of the Verona Library, received 1,314...

South Orange re-elects Collum in landslide

May 14, 2019 9:07 pmMay 14, 2019 11:36 pm

South Orange residents overwhelmingly voted to re-elected Village President Sheena Collum to a second term Tuesday. Collum, who was a village trustee for two years before when she was first elected village president in 2015, received 2,847 of the 3,746...

Election Day in 13 New Jersey towns

May 14, 2019 9:44 am

Voters in thirteen New Jersey municipalities will go to the polls today to cast their ballots in partisan municipal elections. There are closely watched races in North Bergen, where State Sen. Nicholas Sacco seeks an eighth term as mayor, and...

McKeon, Jasey don’t see clear winner in South Orange

May 13, 2019 5:27 pm

Assemblyman John McKeon and Assemblywoman Mila Jasey don’t see a clear winner in South Orange’s contest for village president. “If you just see the signs, Sheena looks very popular, but who knows. Signs don’t vote,” McKeon said, adding that he...

South Orange Map: How Sheena Collum did in her last election

May 10, 2019 2:53 pm

South Orange Village President Sheena Collum is seeking re-election to a second term in Tuesday’s non-partisan municipal election. She was elected in 2015 with 70% of the vote. Now she faces Village Trustee Deborah Ford Davis, the Clerk of the...

Two firefighter unions back Deborah Ford Davis in South Orange

April 25, 2019 4:59 pmApril 26, 2019 12:13 pm

The two South Orange firefighter unions have endorsed Deborah Ford Davis for Village President in the May 14 non-partisan municipal elections. FMBA Locals 40 and 240 are backing Ford Davis in her bid to unseat incumbent Sheena Collum, who has...

North Ward machine shows strength in Newark school elections

April 19, 2019 11:01 amApril 19, 2019 1:57 pm

The legendary political machine in Newark’s North Ward continues to play an outsized role in city elections, including this week’s contested race for three seats on the Newark Board of Education. The Moving Newark Forward slate of candidates backed by...