Armando Fontoura – 20,879 votes (77.6%)
Barry Jackson – 1,186 votes (4.41%)
REPUBLICAN (vote for one)
Nicholas Pansini – 5,014 votes (81.01%)
Incumbent Armando Fontoura, the longest-serving sheriff in county history, faced a challenge for the Democratic Party nod from John Arnold Jr., a former deputy director with the Newark Police Department, and a third candidate, Barry Jackson.
The Republican candidates for sheriff in the 2021 primary election were Nicholas Pansini and Maureen Edelson.
Fontoura and Arnold each received high-profile endorsements prior to election day.
Fontoura, a former law enforcement officer and teacher in Newark, picked up endorsements from Gov. Phil Murphy, former governor and current state senator Richard Codey, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (District 11) and U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (District 10).
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Lovers of music owe a special debt to the Baltimore postal worker who introduced Cyrus Chestnut to the piano. That single act â a father bestowing the gift of music on his son in the 1960s â resulted in the creation of some of the best improvisational jazz and spiritual renderings of the last 30 years.
McDonald Chestnut, a self-taught pianist and organist who played in Baptist churches in Baltimore and Bel Air, Maryland, died last week of pneumonia at 85. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Flossie Chestnut, and his son, one of the top jazz pianists in the world.
âMy father, the one who taught me piano, transitioned today,â Cyrus Chestnut wrote on his Facebook page on May 20. After I expressed condolences on the phone Monday night, he recalled something his father had told him: âYou know, son, I could have left you an inheritance in money, but I exposed you to music, and that will take you for the rest of your life and sustain you.â