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5 days ago · When the British Army invaded Hunterdon County in December 1776, Speaker Hart was forced to go to ground in the nearby Sourland Mountains as British and Hessian troops pillaged his lands. Hart was able to return home only on the 26th after George Washington’s famous Christmas victory in Trenton.
4 days ago · Our Independence Day-inspired effort to honor each of New Jersey’s five signatories to the Declaration of Independence continues, Save Jerseyans. We’ve already gotten to know Abraham Clark and John Hart. Today’s subject: John Witherspoon. Witherspoon wasn’t born in the United States.
3 days ago · Each state in the United States elects two senators, regardless of the state’s population. Senators serve six-year terms with staggered elections. Americans in the United States’s six territories do not have senators. New Jersey’s senators are: Senior Senator.
1 day ago · NJ Senate will reconvene to confirm state supreme court nominee John Jay Hoffman. Though the summer recess for the New Jersey Legislature has barely begun, due to the pending nomination of a new ...
3 days ago · Here’s what we heard from its candidates for state senate and assembly in the 2023 election. By Olivia Rizzo Belleville, Bloomfield, East Orange, Glen Ridge, Local Government, Nutley, Orange, Reporting October 24, 2023. Image by Laura Ragusa.
2 days ago · In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the ...
3 days ago · But Bonaccorso, the mayor for more than 20 years, didn’t face any challenge in the GOP primary in his Republican-heavy town. He won the endorsement of the Union County GOP and appears easily on ...
