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And a $4.56 million question.
Good morning, South Jersey.
Voters in Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington Counties will choose their next county commissioners in this year’s election. Before Election Day tomorrow, here’s what you need to know.
And those in Collingswood will decide if its school district will get a $4.56 million operating bond.
Plus, founder and artistic director of the Ritz Theatre Company Bruce Curless has died, and more news of the day.
— Taylor Allen (southjersey@inquirer.com)
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Several county commissioner seats are up for grabs in this year’s elections.
In Burlington County, a pair of GOP contenders are hoping to win and bring Republican representation to the existing completely Democratic board.
Three Republican candidates are also fighting to oust the three Democratic incumbents up for reelection on Gloucester County’s board. The existing makeup of the board is five Democrats and two Republicans.
Meanwhile, in Camden County, two Democrats will face only one Republican challenger, who is a repeat candidate.
The Inquirer’s Aliya Schneider has more insight on the individual candidates.
The Collingswood school district wants voters to say yes to the $4.56 million bond question on Tuesday.
According to superintendent Fred McDowell, the bond would help to fund operations, keep teachers, and decrease class sizes. Collingswood is one of many districts grappling with deficits and hoping to figure out how to address budget holes.
But school leaders recognize voters might require some convincing.
If approved, the bond question would mean a $1,324 annual increase to a tax bill for the average home in the borough, assessed at $448,000.
What to know today
South Jersey’s theater legend Bruce Curless, the founder and producing artistic director of Haddon Township’s Ritz Theatre Company, died at 78 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
A Cherry Hill woman reprised her role of Edgar Allan Poe in her one-woman-show of a play about the writer on Sunday at the Ritz Theatre Company, days after Curless died.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill rallied with Democratic Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock on Saturday to garner support for him in his race against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew.
Voorhees police arrested an Atco man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run along Route 73 last week.
Cape May Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland announced Friday that a man who worked as a prekindergarten teacher’s aide was charged again with aggravated sexual assault and making child pornography.
Based on what most Union County voters told The Inquirer, President Donald Trump is motivating people to head to the polls, but that might not favor U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. during the midterm elections.
Real estate developer Bart Blatstein is trying to expand his Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City while also facing a possible foreclosure of it.
A veteran from Bryn Athyn who was indicted for protesting ICE inside a church in Saint Paul, Minn., faces court hearings this week. He is otherwise barred from leaving Pennsylvania because of charges related to his participation in demonstrations near the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark.
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