Racist POS Puts Noose On Campaign Sign In Middle Township
Plus: What Hurricane Nicole Means For Us
Racism in South Jersey as: Authorities are searching for a woman who placed stuffed animals in nooses over political signs promoting a black congressional candidate in Middle Township. The items were found hanging over a political sign for U.S. Congressional candidate Tim Alexander. An investigation uncovered footage of a white woman with blonde hair getting out of a late model sedan. Alexander lost his bid to over-come 2nd District incumbent, Jeff Van Drew.
An Asbury Park man gets life in prison for the killing of two men in New Hampshire last year. Theodore Luckey pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder for killing the two men, one of whom was from Seaside Heights. Investigators are saying Luckey attacked one of the victims in a hotel lobby with a machete and strangled another in a hotel room. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Local DWI checkpoint on Friday. Drivers on westbound Route 33 in Neptune will be subject to a DWI Checkpoint Friday evening into Saturday starting at about 9pm. The checkpoint will be set up at Route 33 and Jumping Brook Road.
Somerset County is ramping up COVID vaccination opportunities ahead of the holiday season. The Somerset County Department of Health is expanding clinics to ensure residents safely celebrate during large indoor gatherings. Residents can head to Somerset County’s website for more details about dates and times. Statewide covid numbers continue to hang in the 1500 per week range. 1491 new cases ID’d by PCR test yesterday, another 387 by rapid test.
Heads up: the remnants of the Hurricane that just hit Florida are headed our way. (yes, another hurricane just hit Florida. Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach as a category 1 storm.) The current track has the storm moving across Florida, briefly over the Gulf, back up over Tallahassee in western Florida then north east over inland Georgia. We’ll see rain and wind from the remnants Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, but most of that will be centered inland: Think Mercer, Somerset, Hunterdon counties. By the way, Nicole is the first Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on the United States in roughly 40 years.
