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Yaede should ‘maybe’ resign, Greenstein says

September 10, 2019 3:21 pmSeptember 10, 2019 5:15 pm

State Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro) said Hamilton Mayor Kelly Yaede should consider resigning over her alleged role in the release of her primary opponent’s expunged criminal record. “Do I think she should resign? Maybe. I know Jeff Martin has called...

Democrats make August registration gains in key legislative districts

September 10, 2019 9:47 am

Democrats outpaced Republicans in August voter registration in each of the battleground districts for the 2019 mid-term Assembly races. While some of the numbers may seem small, close races for the legislature are not uncommon. Three contests over the last...

Donald Wernik, former Middlesex freeholder, Metuchen mayor, dies at 94

August 31, 2019 4:57 pmSeptember 1, 2019 5:50 pm

Donald J. Wernik, an All-State football star at Metuchen High School and World War II veteran who became a pharmacist, mayor of Metuchen and three-term Middlesex County Freeholder, died on Friday. He was 94. Wernik began in politics in an...

Perth Amboy group backs Booker

July 30, 2019 3:17 pm

Moving in a different direction from Mayor Wilda Diaz, four members of Perth Amboy City Council have endorsed Cory Booker for president. Diaz announced her support of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination at a New Jersey rally two weeks...

East Brunswick mayor calls out Watson Coleman on Israel vote

July 30, 2019 12:10 pmJuly 30, 2019 1:27 pm

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) is continuing to take heat from Democratic mayors in her own district after voting against a House resolution opposing the drive to boycott Israel. East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction...

Barbara Kossyk, ex-Piscataway GOP leader, dies at 86

July 29, 2019 10:59 am

Barbara Kossyk, a former vice chair of the Piscataway Republican Organization who ran three times for Township Council, died on July 27. She was 86. In 1982, Kossyk became a candidate for the Piscataway Township Council 2nd ward seat being...

Nick Poliseno, former Spotswood mayor, dies from 9/11-related illness at 41

July 23, 2019 11:03 amJuly 23, 2019 1:58 pm

Nicholas Poliseno, a former Spotswood mayor who spent a year working at Ground Zero, died on July 17 from an illness sustained as a first responder on September 11, 2001. He was 41. Poliseno was working for Con Edison and...