Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Updates on the 2012 election will be posted here throughout the day.
Democrats will now hold the majority vote on the Barnegat Township Committee following tonight's election. Challengers Elaine Taylor and Susan Conway defeated former mayor and current township committeeman Jeffrey Melchiondo and current mayor Al Cirulli, who have been serving on the committee since 2004, who ran on the same Republican ticket. With all districts reporting, but mail ins yet to be tallied, Conway recieved 4,852 votes, Taylor 4,776 votes, Melchiondo, 3,756, and Cirulli, 3,676. Taylor is a former Board of Education member and stay-at-home mother and Conway, who grew up in Barnegat, works as an attorney in Northern New Jersey. Conway served on a charter commission to re-examine the form of government in town several years ago. …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Through Wednesday, nearly 3,000 more vote-by-mail requests had been processed than were processed by the same date in 2008.
As the 2012 election nears, more than 17,000 Ocean County residents have requested and received ballots to vote by mail, according to the Ocean County Clerk's office. "That's 3,000 more than we had processed by this same date in 2008," County Clerk Scott Colabella told the Ocean County Board of Freeholders at the board's meeting in Toms River on Wednesday. In 2008, the clerk's office had processed 14,472 vote-by-mail requests, he said. As of Wednesday, they've processed 17,452. "We're averaging 388 new requests per day," Colabella said. Voting by mail without restriction has been available in New Jersey since 2004. Prior to that, those who wanted to vote by mail had to give a reason why they would be unable to get to the polls on Election …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Democrat challenging longtime Sheriff William L. Polhemus in race for three-year term.
The Democratic candidate running for Ocean County sheriff this year says issues, not age, will be the focus of his campaign. George "Bob" Armstrong, 68, is challenging 83-year-old William L. Polhemus for the three-year sheriff's term in November. He unveiled his platform on the steps of the Ocean County Courthouse Monday afternoon. He doesn't plan to make an issue out of Polhemus' age. "That's up to the voters to decide," Armstrong said in an interview this morning. "Even if he was only 60 years old, it's been way too long," he added. "It's just outrageous for one person to be there for 27 years." Armstrong said his 40-year career in law enforcement will benefit the Sheriff's Department and the residents of Ocean County. He has served as a…
BARNEGAT GUY
1:13 pm on Saturday, November 10, 2012
Now that we won the Election from them,can we please,please start getting some business in this town.A shop-rite,new place's to eat etc,etc.so we can stop building all these house's and development.So we can spend our money in our own town,and how about getting a Y.M.C.A to build that building they was talking about years ago,they wanted us to give the the land and they would build it. more ›