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Brick GOP expects to fill Wolfe Assembly seat

January 24, 2019 11:38 amJanuary 24, 2019 12:13 pm

A Brick resident has filled one of the Ocean County State Assembly seats for the last 45 years, so there is an expectation that the successor to retiring Assemblyman David Wolfe (R-Brick) will come from the town of more than...

Rodrick will screen for mayor

January 23, 2019 6:25 pm

Toms River councilman Dan Rodrick says he was invited to screen as a potential Republican candidate for mayor by party leaders. The GOP incumbent, 86-year-old James Kelaher, has not ruled out seeking re-election to a fourth term. Rodrick was elected...

Toms River mayor faces fight for GOP nomination

January 23, 2019 3:55 pm

Toms River Mayor Thomas Kelaher is facing a right in his bid for re-election to a fourth term. Councilman Maurice “Mo” Hill confirmed that he plans to challenge the 86-year-old Kelaher for the Republican mayoral nomination. “I’m going to screen,...

Wolfe won’t seek re-election to Assembly

January 23, 2019 2:06 pmJanuary 23, 2019 2:52 pm

Assemblyman David Wolfe (R-Brick), the most senior member of the New Jersey General Assembly, will not seek re-election to a 15th term in the legislature, he confirmed today. Wolfe, 76, said he informed the Assembly Republican leadership today of his...

Toms River passes school referendum

January 22, 2019 9:50 pmJanuary 22, 2019 10:28 pm

Voters in the Toms River Regional school district passed a $147 million school repair referendum tonight with nearly 58% of the vote. With 88% of the districts reporting, the referendum passed by a margin of 1,814 votes — 6,641 to...

Ocean GOP has no succession plan

January 11, 2019 12:33 am

Just when New Jersey Republicans thought things things could not can any worse, the head of the only big county GOP machine left in the state just got indicted. George Gilmore has been the boss in Ocean County since 1996,...

Gilmore indicted on tax evasion charges

January 10, 2019 5:15 pmJanuary 10, 2019 11:13 pm

Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore, the head of the most powerful Republican organization in the state and a close ally of former Gov, Chris Christie, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on tax evasion charges. The indictment...