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Post-Election Upset Gives Democratic Challenger Katz Sufficient Lead Over Umba to Unseat Him in 8th District
‘THE NEED IS GETTING LARGER’
GOP Incumbent Torrissi Gets Second Term as Assemblyman, Splitting Both Parties’ Teams, According to Unofficial Results
By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer
MOUNT HOLLY—If this month’s offyear election has proven nothing else, it’s that candidates paired together won’t necessarily stay together once the votes are counted. That seems to have been illustrated in New Jersey’s 8th Legislative District, where Democratic Assembly candidate Andrea Katz appeared on track to unseat Republican incumbent Brandon Umba by Nov. 15, this newspaper’s deadline, even while Umba’s running mate, first-term Assemblyman Michael Torrissi, Jr., had managed to pull in some 500 more ballots than he did by that point. That lead was apparently sufficient to assure Torrissi of election to a second term in the Legislature, even while Umba looked to have finished last in the fourcandidate race, lagging behind Torrissi and Katz as well as the latter’s running mate, Anthony Angelozzi, who appeared to have come in third and was likewise left in the losing column. All four candidates, however, scored within the same ballpark of 27,000-plus votes, according to tallies of the unofficial results, with Katz having garnered a total of 27,588 votes in both Burlington County and the smaller sector of Atlantic County that includes the remainder of the 8th District, with only some 238 ballots separating her
Photo By Douglas D. Melegari
The Mobile Pantry at Fawn Lake Village in Shamong Township, organized by the Zallie Community Foundation, which partners with The Food Bank of South Jersey.
Zallie Community Foundation, in Partnership with Food Bank of South Jersey, Hosts Moble Food Pantry, Once a Month, at Fawn Lake Village in Shamong, Which Has ‘Been a Blessing’ To Those in Need, Unable to Afford Groceries St. Vincent de Paul Society of Tabernacle Also Available to Address Need in Community By Douglas D. M elegari Staff Writer
SHAMONG—Sixty-two people – from towns throughout the Pines – were waiting in their vehicles on Nov. 2, lined up along the main roadway for Fawn Lake Village in Shamong Township, with the line extending onto the shoulder of Route 206, to receive
a monthly allotment of free groceries through a Mobile Food Pantry, hosted on the first Thursday of every month to help those in need and to end hunger. “I come every month,” one woman, named Terry, told the Pine Barrens Tribune, upon receiving her grocery allotment. “Oh my gosh, I can’t begin to tell you what this means to me
– I can’t afford them anymore without them.” The latter “them” is the Zallie Community Foundation, which partners with The Food Bank of South Jersey, to host the food pantry on the first Thursday of every month, at 1004 Route 206 in Shamong, with food available for distribution from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, or See FOOD/ Page 4
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Business Directory...................................14 Christmas Countdown............................. C1 Holiday Gift Guide................................... S1 Local News.................................................2
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Marketplace..................................................... 13 Thanksgiving Guide................................. T1 Worship Guide..........................................12
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