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Hunterdon countywide electeds back Kean for Congress

November 11, 2021 1:32 pmNovember 11, 2021 5:06 pm

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) unveiled endorsements today from seven Republican Hunterdon County countywide officeholders for his second campaign in the 7th congressional district. The septet – County Clerk Mary Melfi, Sheriff Fred Brown, and Commissioners Susan...

Where local races stand in Hunterdon County

November 5, 2021 3:11 pm

Alexandria Republican Committeeman R. Christian Pfefferle and fellow Republican Jay Arancio defeated Democrat Max Cooper 39-41-19% for two seats on the Alexandria Township Committee, while Republican Robert Mortara won unopposed for a third seat’s unexpired term. Bethlehem Committeeman Steve Keefe...

Doherty, DiMaio, Peterson win in the 23rd district

November 2, 2021 8:01 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Oxford), Assemblyman John DiMaio (R-Hackettstown), and Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) have won re-election to the 23rd legislative district. Doherty defeated 2019 Democratic Assembly nominee Denise King, while DiMaio and...

Turner, Reynolds-Jackson, Verrelli win in the 15th district

November 2, 2021 8:01 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Lawrence), Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Trenton), and Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli (D-Hopewell) have won re-election to the 15th legislative district. Turner defeated nurse Susan Gaul for the Senate; Reynolds-Jackson and Verrelli...

16th district Republicans fight to stanch the bleeding

October 27, 2021 12:01 amOctober 27, 2021 9:59 am

Republicans in the 16th legislative district have not had a good decade. The first blow came in 2011, when the state went through its post-Census redistricting cycle. The 16th district had long been a Somerset County-based district, and thus had...

Edna Mahan guard charged with sexual assault

October 13, 2021 1:00 pm

Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck and Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée Robeson today announced the arrest of Tyrell Harris-McLaughlin, a senior correctional police officer at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, on charges of sexually assaulting an inmate. According to the...

George Richardson, former assemblyman first elected in 1961, dies at 90

October 11, 2021 12:01 amOctober 11, 2021 10:52 pm

George C. Richardson, a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s, died on September 24. He was 90. Richardson had sought to become the first Black to serve...