Tag: Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders
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Mercer County freeholders hold public hearing to adopt $332.7 million county budget on April 23
The Mercer County Board of Freeholders will vote on whether to adopt a $332.7 million budget to fund the operation of the county during 2020 on April 23. The budget had been introduced during a meeting on Feb. 25. Freeholder Chairman Andrew Koontz, Vice Chairman Samuel Frisby and freeholders John Cimino, Ann Cannon and Lucylle…
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Koontz elected by colleagues to lead Mercer County freeholders during 2020
The Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders has a new chairman, with Freeholder Andrew Koontz having been elected to hold the position for 2020 during the board’s Jan. 3 reorganization meeting in the McDade Administration Building, Trenton. In 2019, Koontz, who is a resident of Princeton, served as vice chairman. He is joined on the…
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Mercer County Freeholders partner with local non-profit to help children in need
The Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders has partnered with local non-profit Shine and Inspire in an effort to aid Mercer County children in need. The partnership with the Hamilton Township non-profit organization is for a county-wide donation drive to benefit the Shine and Inspire Closet initiative. The initiative helps low income and displaced children…
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Bridge replacement expected to cause traffic tie-ups in late 2019
By Philip Sean Curran Staff Writer Two bridges and a culvert along Alexander Street/Road in West Windsor and Princeton will be replaced in 2019 in a move that will cut off an artery to Route 1 that thousands travel daily. The closure is expected to last six months. The closure means motorists will have to…
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Melker takes seat on Mercer County freeholder board
New Mercer County Freeholder Nina D. Melker took the oath of office on Sept. 24 during a ceremonial swearing-in, less three weeks after the Democrat won a vacant seat on the seven-member board. Melker stood with her family at her side as fellow freeholder and Hamilton resident John A. Cimino administered the oath inside Ravello…
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Businesswoman named to fill open seat on Mercer County freeholder board
A businesswoman who has never held public office was chosen on Sept. 5 by her fellow Democrats to fill a vacant seat on the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Nina D. Melker, of Hamilton Township, emerged from a field of seven candidates trying to succeed state Assemblyman Anthony S. Verrelli, (D-Mercer and Hunterdon), who…
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Two more Democrats announce candidacy for Mercer freeholder board
The race for a vacant seat on the Mercer County Board of Freeholders has grown to a field of nine Democrats who will try to persuade party officials next month that they should be selected. Nina Melker and Joseph Zalescik, both of Hamilton Township, have joined the contest to replace Anthony S. Verrelli, who resigned…
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Democrats eyeing appointment to Mercer County freeholder seat
The soon-to-be vacant seat of Mercer County Freeholder Anthony S. Verrelli is being eyed by Democrats from around Mercer County, now that Verrelli is becoming a state assemblyman. Talk within party circles is rampant about who wants to climb the political ladder in a county where Democrats control all the levers of power. Ethnic, gender…
