RIDGEWOOD An appellate judge has sided with residents who sought to move the election dates for the Village Council and Board of Education to November.
Judge Richard Geiger on Tuesday affirmed a September ruling by Superior Court Judge Estela De La Cruz that Village Clerk Heather Mailander had acted improperly and unlawfully in attempting to block a petition by the group One Village One Vote to place the question of fall elections for both bodies on the November ballot.
In scathing language echoing the De La Cruz decision, Geiger said Mailander s arguments go far afield of her ministerial role as municipal clerk and that she had punted her ministerial obligation to notify plaintiff of the reasons for her rejection of the Aug. 13 petition.
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Good Monday morning!
I took some time off last week, and I wondered if the governor would sign weed legalization without me. Turns out he and the Legislature waited for me.
Instead, we saw the death Saturday of one longtime Senator, Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen), whose input often made Senate Judiciary Committee meetings interesting, and who I will really miss talking to.