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Paterson election challenge over, with Mendez solidifying council seat

July 29, 2021 5:24 pmJuly 29, 2021 6:12 pm

Former Paterson City Councilman William McKoy has dropped his legal challenge to a November special election, with incumbent Alex Mendez prevailing in a fourteen-month battle over the Third Ward council seat. Mendez had defeated McKoy in a May 2020 election...

Mayor’s school board slate in Woodland Park unopposed

July 27, 2021 7:06 pm

In Woodland Park, you don’t win elections if you don’t have the backing of Mayor Keith Kazmark. That led Christopher Mania to skip a bid for re-election to a Board of Education seat after Kazmark made it clear he wouldn’t...

Lora re-elected in landslide

May 11, 2021 9:21 pmMay 12, 2021 1:36 am

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora easily defeated two challengers to win re-election Tuesday, carrying his slate of council candidates to another term. It wasn’t remotely close. Lora won with 3,913 votes, nearly 89% of all those cast. Incumbents Jose Garcia, Terrence...

The polls are now open in 14 N.J. municipalities

May 11, 2021 6:00 amMay 10, 2021 11:42 pm

Good morning, New Jersey. Today is Election Day in fourteen municipalities that hold non-partisan municipal elections. The polls opened at 6 AM and close at 8 PM, even in Cedar Grove. The race to watch is in Collingswood, a sort...

Voters could see controversial Paterson Council race run for a third time

May 1, 2021 7:52 pm

The Passaic County Board of Elections has acknowledged that at least 19 ballots in a do-over of a Paterson City Council race that led to voter fraud charges were cast by voters who didn’t live in the city’s Third Ward,...

Former Passaic NAACP president removed after anti-Semitic statements running for mayor

April 22, 2021 4:02 pmApril 22, 2021 8:29 pm

Jeffrey Dye, the former Passaic City NAACP president who was ousted over a series of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino Facebook posts, is running for mayor. Dye, who was fired from a $56,088-a-year post in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration after the New...

When Tina Gatti first won a council seat, Woodland Park was called West Paterson

April 5, 2021 1:51 pmApril 5, 2021 2:18 pm

Woodland Park Councilwoman Tina Gatti today filed for her eighth term and says that this will be her last. Gatti was first elected in 2000 – when the borough was still called West Paterson — and has been re-elected by...