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Mike McGarry from the Press of AC has a great story about Dan Russo, the head football coach at Vineland, where they have maybe the most beautiful high school football stadium in South Jersey (#controversial) and the strangest mascot (“Poultry Clan”).
Andy Kim declared himself the winner in the 3rd Congressional District last night after taking the lead yesterday as vote-by-mail ballots were counted.
There are still more to count, and the result’s not official, but the punditry seem to think there’s no likely way for Tom MacArthur to make up the deficit, which is about 2,600 votes. MacArthur’s not conceded.
The race between Andy Kim and Tom MacArthur for the 3rd Congressional District was still too close to call this a.m., as MacArthur had a lead of about 2,300 votes but there were still uncounted precincts in Burlington County and thousands of mail-in/provisional ballots.
Election Day is finally here. I hope, my fellow Americans, we do something inspiring, like reclaim our democracy, but I guess we’ll see.
Matt Friedman of Politico leads the Playbook with the Menendez-Hugin race, where Democrats are nervous and Hugin people say they have internal polling that shows their guy up 2 points.
“Democrats not on the Menendez campaign are convinced Hugin has a significant chance at winning,” Matt says, while noting that people talking, “about internal polls but not providing them should be treated the same as anecdotal evidence.”
The cybesecurity incident at the Galloway Township School District involved two fraudulent wire transfers of $200,000, Lynda Cohen reports.
One of them was recovered.
Third-grade teachers at Slaybaugh School in EHT dressed as a roller-coaster for Halloween and it was amazing.
Though maybe not as amazing as this one.
Happy Halloween Route 40 Roundup-ers! Hope you’re as excited about this holiday as we are, which is to say very. On this date in history in 2008, Bruce Springsteen released a song about the Jersey Devil. In realer news:
$2.13 per hour
There’s a push to raise base pay for New Jersey workers who work for tips and “generally make a baseline of as little as $2.13 per hour.” A new bill would raise that to $8.60.
Chris Franklin at NJ.com has a story on a plan to allow bonfires on the Atlantic City beaches, which for the record sounds awesome to me.
The flooding over the weekend was the worst “since Hurricane Sandy and Winter Storm Jonas,” Ventnor Emergency Management Coordinator Donna Peterson told Nanette LoBiondo.