Mercer County has received a competitive grant from the New Jersey Department of Labor to provide summer employment and job readiness training to local youth. The grant, totaling $475,200, will fund jobs for at least 120 students between ages 16 and 24, whether currently enrolled in school or not. The program will partner with businesses, […]
Election Day came and went Tuesday with unusually low voter turnout at local polling stations, Mercer County Director of Voter Registration and Elections Thad Hall said.
It didn’t look like Election Day eve Monday in Mercer County. Candidate signs, which typically sprout like dandelions along busy roadsides, were few to non-existent.
BLUEFIELD — From the long-awaited opening of a three-mile stretch of the King Coal Highway in Bluefield to a surprise Memorial Day flood, the year 2023 is being remembered as