Post Tagged with: "Election"
Want To Vote By Mail? Here’s How
There are elections coming up this November 2 for Congress and Essex County offices. But MyVeronaNJ reader Ricky Bongo will be away at college and wanted to know how he could get an absentee ballot. So we’ll give him a shout-out for wanting to participate in democracy, and an answer. There’s a bit of paperwork [...]
English Runs For County Executive
Marilyn English, a Verona resident who is a presence at many Verona Town Council meetings and an ardent opponent of the Essex County deer hunts and government waste, has announced that she is running for Essex County Executive in the November election. English is a former assistant vice president at JP Morgan in the mergers [...]
GOP Challenger Straten Sets Town Hall On Health Care
Roland Straten, Republican candidate for Congress from the 8th Congressional District, will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Health Care on Friday, October 8 at 7 p.m. at the Verona Community Center, 880 Bloomfield Avenue. Straten says he is holding the meeting to let 8th District residents express their views and concerns about health care [...]
Meet Republican Candidate Roland Straten
Roland Straten is running on the GOP ticket for the 8th Congressional District seat against Rep. Bill Pascrell. This Friday, October 1, you can meet Straten at the home of Verona residents Tom and Beth Freeman. The “meet & greet” event will begin at 7 p.m. at 51 Afterglow Avenue. To attend, please RSVP to [...]
Ben Says, Vote
Ben Blinder started a blog when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Town Council last year. It has morphed from campaign platform to intermittent musings about life in Verona, and he put up a post yesterday that bears reading as Verona considers its options on budget and government matters. It concerns three issues Blinder raised in the [...]
Ken McKenna To Resign From Council
Ken McKenna, who has served on the Town Council since July 2005, will be resigning from the council at its September 20 meeting. McKenna, who held the title of mayor from July 2007 through June 2009, will be moving to Berkeley Heights. McKenna’s current term on the council was to have expired in June 2013. [...]
Elliott, Unis Seek Reelection To Board Of Ed
Glenn Elliott, a six-year veteran of the Board of Education, and Michael Unis, who won last year’s election for a one-year spot to fill an unexpired term, have announced that they are seeking re-election to the Board. Two of the board’s five seats are up for grabs in this year’s election, which is set for [...]