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New Jersey’s $56.6 Billion Budget for FY 2025: Tax Hikes, Property Tax Relief, and Investments
Governor Phil Murphy signed the new $56.6 billion state budget for New Jersey, which includes a significant tax increase on large corporations and substantial funding for property tax relief, public schools, pensions, and community projects. Key Takeaways:. The budget introduces a 2.5% tax on large companies to fund NJ Transit,...
Accessible trails make nature available to all
Before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, Karen Richards was an athlete. She could hike for miles on rugged mountain trails and she regularly swam distance laps in a pool. Having multiple sclerosis changed all that for Karen, who is the New Jersey Conservation Foundation’s director of finance and...
Monmouth County News Briefs, Nov. 9
An Ocean County man has been arrested and charged with committing a daytime robbery of a West Long Branch check-cashing business in Monmouth County five years ago that netted $700,000, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Oct. 28. Travis A. Bryant, 41, of Jackson, is charged with...
Protect Liberty State Park’s Caven Point as urban natural area
In the most urban area of the nation’s most densely populated state, there is a small peninsula along the Hudson River where it widens into Upper New York Bay. It is an amazing haven for nature and wildlife. Migrating shorebirds, including ospreys and American oystercatchers, stop at Caven Point...
Light of Day Winterfest 2023 returning from Jan. 7-20
The Light of Day Foundation has announced WinterFest 2023, the annual music festival taking place from Jan. 7-20 in Asbury Park, Red Bank, Montclair, Philadelphia, New York City and Rockland County. “Bob’s Birthday Bash” will take place on Jan. 14 at the Count Basie Center’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre, according...
Monmouth County News Briefs, Nov. 2
The American Red Cross is asking individuals of all blood types and people who have never given blood before to book a time to give blood or platelets and help keep the blood supply from dropping ahead of the holidays. People of all blood types are needed, especially platelet donors...
Do nature a favor – leave falling leaves alone this year
If you love fall’s spectacular colors, but not raking leaves, here is some good news: You can stop! By leaving your leaves alone, you will help your lawn, local wildlife and the environment. Leaves falling from trees should not be seen as trash to be collected and hauled away.
New state law updates regulations of emergency medical services
Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation sponsored by state Sen. Robert Singer (R-Monmouth, Ocean) into law. According to a press release from Singer’s office, the law will bolster advanced life support services across New Jersey. Singer’s two-county legislative district includes Howell and Farmingdale. The bill signed by Murphy,...
Axelrod Performing Arts Center announces 2022-23 lineup of shows
The Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal Park, has announced its 2022-23 season, which kicks off with the adults-only musical comedy with puppets, “Avenue Q,” in November. In February, the Axelrod will present the 50th anniversary revival of the forgotten Black musical “Raisin,” followed by the Jersey Shore’s first professional production of “The Prom” in May, and in November the first musical in the theater’s recently announced Sondheim Centennial Project: Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sunday in the Park with George,” according to a press release.
Monmouth County News Briefs, Oct. 19
A Middletown resident has been indicted for laundering money on behalf of the Cape Town Zone of Black Axe, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Andrew Suarez, 29, is charged by indictment with money laundering conspiracy, substantive money laundering counts and aggravated identity theft, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Motorists warned to drive with caution as deer activity increases
Drivers are reminded to be extra vigilant on roads this fall as the mating season for white-tailed deer gets underway and daylight is limited during peak commuting hours, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced. Deer are more likely to...
Early in-person voting will take place from Oct. 29 to Nov. 6
Last year a new state law was passed mandating early in-person voting as an option in New Jersey. This new option allows registered voters to cast their ballots in person, using a voting machine, during a nine-day period prior to Election Day. In addition to our two traditional voting methods,...
10 years after Sandy, are we safer from flooding?
Nearly everyone who lived in New Jersey 10 years ago has vivid, and possibly traumatic, memories of Superstorm Sandy slamming this state we’re in. Thirty-eight lives were lost. More than 300,000 homes were either completely destroyed or so badly damaged as to be uninhabitable. About 2.7 million people were left without power, some for up to two weeks.
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