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Steinhardt re-elected to Warren GOP chairman post

June 22, 2025 4:30 pmJune 22, 2025 4:31 pm

Doug Steinhardt was re-elected to another term as Warren County Republican chairman today without opposition. Steinhardt, a state senator from the 23rd legislative district and a former Lopatcong mayor, became county chairman in 2004 after Walter Orcutt declined to seek...

Sarnoski wins GOP commissioner primary for another term in Warren County

June 10, 2025 10:11 pmJune 11, 2025 12:49 am

Warren County Commissioner Jason Sarnoski (R-Independence) has easily won renomination for another term, the New Jersey Globe projects, defeating challenger Sylvia Zika. As of 12:49 a.m., Sarnoski leads 79%-21%. Sarnoski, currently the commissioner director, has served on the board since...

A rundown of the contested primaries for county office

June 10, 2025 5:59 amJune 10, 2025 7:44 am

Six counties have contested primaries for countywide office in two weeks, with the premier race in Hudson County, where a five-term incumbent is battling the mayor of Bayonne in the race for the Democratic nomination for sheriff in a contest...

(Updated) Officials in conservative N.J. county are baffled at their inclusion on ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ list

May 30, 2025 3:04 pmJune 1, 2025 1:47 pm

Update on May 31: At the direction of the White House, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has pulled its national list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that violated laws to shield undocumented immigrants because it included multiple errors across the nation,...

A rundown of the contested primaries for county office

May 27, 2025 12:05 pmMay 27, 2025 12:21 pm

Six counties have contested primaries for countywide office in two weeks, with the premier race in Hudson County, where a five-term incumbent is battling the mayor of Bayonne in the race for the Democratic nomination for sheriff in a contest...

Ex-Phillipsburg councilman exonerated after allegations of prosecutorial misconduct

April 14, 2025 8:43 pmApril 15, 2025 3:33 am

It’s been nearly four years since prosecutors uprooted Frank McVey’s life, indicting him for allegedly threatening the mayor of Phillipsburg in a blackmail scheme. He lost his standing in his community as a decorated former State Police captain and cost...

Gottheimer wins big at Warren Dem convention

March 15, 2025 1:32 pm

Gubernatorial candidate Josh Gottheimer scored a solid victory at today’s Warren County Democratic convention, giving him a win in a county that went for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. Gottheimer won the convention, 19-7,...