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Mayor of Trenton Reed Gusciora today challenged his runoff opponent, Corey McNair, to a four-debate series, “A Vision for the Future of Trenton,” with one public, livestreamed debate in each of Trenton’s four wards before the December 8 runoff election. The campaign asked him to respond by noon Thursday, Nov. 12, so dates and locations can be set with hosts.
The 2027 class of Governor's STEM Scholars, a program of the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, includes 110 students from 20 counties across the state. - Research & Development Council of New Jersey. The Governor’s STEM Scholars has welcomed 110 high school, college, and graduate students from across...
A father spends up to four and a half hours a day traveling to and from Manhattan, sacrificing valuable time with his family in pursuit of career opportunities.
Princeton Council has canceled a $480,060 contract for two electric shuttle vehicles that were ordered nearly three years ago but never delivered, as the Municipality approaches a December 1 deadline to decide whether to pursue state funding for replacement vehicles for its Loop bus service. The October 26 resolution formally...
‘Tis the Season to shop local! And we’re starting to see pop-ups all over the Garden State getting into the spirit of shopping local. Curated markets will help you find the best gifts for the holidays – for your friends and family or yourself! Let’s help our local community this year and shop local businesses.
The Lakewood Board of Education has appealed a recent judicial ruling in the ongoing legal battle over the state’s proposed intervention in the district, with its attorney maintaining that the state has not justified taking control of the school system, the school board attorney tells TLS. In a recent...
New Jersey’s winter utility shutoff protections begin Sunday, November 15, giving qualifying households a way to keep essential services on while they work through financial hardship. The Winter Termination Program runs through March 15. It protects eligible residential customers from disconnection of electric, gas, water and wastewater service during...
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey residents and businesses could soon receive payments for helping reduce electricity demand during peak usage periods under a new program being developed by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. The board announced Thursday, Nov. 12, that it has taken the first step toward...
Most people in New Jersey politics today probably never heard of Albert Vreeland or Frank Osmers, two young New Jersey Congressmen who placed patriotism above politics and the security of our nation ahead of their own political careers. Vreeland first demonstrated his commitment to public service as a 17-year-old, driving...
Five Lawrence Township businesses have been honored for making significant or unusual contributions to the economic growth of the community. The Lawrence Township Economic Growth Committee (formerly known as the Lawrence Township Growth and Redevelopment Committee) sponsors the awards program. The Mayor’s Impact Award, which was given to AmeriKick Princeton...
It's one of those words that can cause a streak of panic to run down the spine of anyone in public office. One thing is to be aware of a well-ordered parade that one needs to jump in front of in order to remain politically cool or relevant. It's quite...
According to lawyers for The Philadelphia Inquirer, if editor Nancy Phillips gave her “fabricated” notes to prosecutors so they could falsely indict South Jersey political boss George Norcross for racketeering, it’s no big deal. Why?. Because, according to lawyers Eli Segal and John Stapleton, Phillips’s “alleged transmission...
The New Jersey Reentry Corporation (NJRC) released “Serving the Veteran in Crisis: NJRC Veterans Services, the Behavioral Health and Legal Continuum, and the Case for Veterans Treatment Courts in New Jersey,” a report documenting how veterans move through New Jersey’s criminal courts and calling on the Legislature to establish a uniform, judicially supervised Veterans Treatment Court in all twenty-one counties.
Every month I write the tuition checks. Like most families in Lakewood, we don’t think of it as a choice. It’s what we do, the same way we pay the mortgage and the electric bill. But anyone who has sat at the kitchen table in November with a calculator knows how heavy it gets.
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced Thursday a $183.5 million multistate settlement with rent-to-own financing company Acima Digital LLC and its parent company, Acima Holdings LLC, resolving allegations that the company misled consumers about the costs and terms of its rental-purchase agreements. The bipartisan settlement,...
NATIONAL REPORT — Tobacco legislation and regulation is constantly under review at the local, state and federal levels. In this monthly roundup, Convenience Store News highlights the latest proposals and approved changes happening across the United States. COLORADO. Fort Collins — The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment...
This year’s TD James Moody Jazz Festival, taking place at NJPAC and other Newark venues, began last week and will continue through Nov. 22. Coming up this week …. • In honor of Miles Davis’ 1926 birth, Jon Faddis & Friends will present a “Miles @100” concert, featuring music from Davis’ albums Birth of the Cool (1957) and Kind of Blue (1959), at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Trumpeter Faddis will be joined by Erena Terakubo (alto saxophone), Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone), Steve Turre (trombone), John Clark (French horn), Bob Stewart (tuba), Mike LeDonne (keyboards), Todd Coolman (bass) and John Riley (drums).
Massachusetts and New Jersey bar winter utility shutoffs from Nov. 15 to Mar. 15, while Connecticut hardship customers are protected Nov. 1 to May 1.
Have you ever driven or walked past a historic Richardsonian Romanesque style building on Rahway Avenue next to the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge? Well that building is called the Barron Arts Center. It wasn’t always an art center, before that it was a library, and it was actually Middlesex County’s very first free public library funded by a local businessman.
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey’s Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act was established for an essential purpose: To protect students and ensure that schools respond seriously and consistently to harassment, intimidation and bullying. It established detailed requirements for reporting, investigating, documenting and reviewing alleged incidents. Yet from my experience in...
