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Gloucester GOP joins youth movement

April 1, 2019 5:58 pm

Andrea Sammons is the latest addition to a list of millennial Republicans stepping up to run for office in counties where the GOP has struggled to win in recent years. Sammons, 23, will run for Gloucester County freeholder against incumbents...

Woodbury Heights councilman Jake Jacob dies at 85

January 20, 2019 2:43 pm

Eshia “Jake” Jacob, who was serving his 9th term on the Woodbury Heights Borough Council, passed away on January 17. He was 85. Jacob ran for the council thirteen times and won nine of his races. Jacob made his first...

Pelosi pick for Climate Crisis panel has Jersey ties

December 28, 2018 1:29 pm

The new chair of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has ties to New Jersey politics. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Florida) is the granddaughter of the late Joseph L. Bowe, who served as mayor of Glassboro from 1959 until...

Bill Gallo, veteran reporter, dies

December 26, 2018 2:08 pmJanuary 1, 2019 7:03 pm

Bill Gallo, Jr., a respected and popular South Jersey journalist, has passed away. He was 59. Gallo had been a longtime reporter from the South Jersey Times, covering Gloucester and Salem counties. He had been the managing editor of Today’s...

Harry Rink, former Greenwich mayor, Assembly candidate, dies

December 18, 2018 10:19 am

Harry Rink, who served as a councilman and mayor in Greenwich Township, passed away on December 14. He was 89. He was elected to the Township Council in 1991, defeating incumbent Republicans Joseph Harbeson and Bill Williamson. In 1993, Rink...

A look at the races for Sheriff

October 22, 2018 12:18 am

Five New Jersey counties will elect a Sheriff on November 6. Four of them – Camden, Essex, Gloucester and Salem – have incumbents running that are favored to win re-election. Bergen County has an open seat. It’s possible that the...

Gloucester GOP pick Shivery for surrogate

September 5, 2018 12:46 pm

The Gloucester County Republican Committee on tuesday unanimously picked Greenwich township Mayor George Shivery as the GOP candidate in the county’s upcoming special election for surrogate. “Last year George won his sixth term as mayor of Greenwich Township, despite a...