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SOLUTIONS: University electric buses
By Huck Fairman Princeton University’s first all-electric bus arrived in late October. It is an important step by the university toward reaching net-zero emissions, its goal for 2046 or sooner. This was the first of 17 scheduled to arrive by the end of February, and it will hopefully serve as an inspiration and influence for…
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Princeton University’s Music Outreach program brings sounds of the holiday season to Brandywine Living at Princeton
Sounds of the holiday season filled Brandywine Living at Princeton as students from Princeton University’s Music Outreach program visited and performed for the residents. Each semester the program, a civic engagement program, brings together musicians from Princeton University with local nursing homes and assisted living communities. They strive to make a difference through music, which…
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Manalapan Police Beat, Dec. 14
The Manalapan Police Department has reported the following incidents which recently occurred in the community: On Nov. 25 at 11:52 a.m., a Manalapan resident reported that sometime between Nov. 4 and Nov. 24, an unknown individual removed a catalytic converter from a vehicle that was parked at the Heritage Village apartment building, Woodward Road, Manalapan.…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Dec. 14
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) is inviting New Jersey high school students to create original music with substance use prevention messages as part of the 2023 Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs New Jersey music competition. Back for its 19th year, the Your Song! Your Voice! music competition allows teenagers to…
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Rotary Club of Hillsborough hosts successful packing event for the troops
The Rotary Club of Hillsborough, Operation Shoebox and the Hillsborough YMCA teamed up once again with community volunteers to host their 10th annual holiday packing event to assemble boxes of donated goods and holiday messages for military serving abroad. Joining in the event on Dec. 10 as a major sponsor, was Magnate Worldwide, a diversified…
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Fentanyl, seniors and pills among topics planned in 2023 learning series
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) has wrapped up a successful 2022 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series and will renew its partnership with the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator of Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES) to host the webinar series in 2023 along with the Opioid Education Foundation…
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Middletown, Red Bank to receive Safe Streets to Transit funding
Gov. Phil Murphy has announced funding to expand access to safe transportation and enhance areas around public transit facilities across the state. The awards total more than $24 million across three programs as part of Murphy’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget. Funding for the Local Aid and Economic Development Grants line item increased by nearly 50%…
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Memory of Jackson’s Hailey Palumbo to be honored at 2023 Rose Parade
JACKSON — Family members and friends of organ and tissue donor Hailey Palumbo recently gathered at the Jackson Township Fire Department for the unveiling of a floragraph of Hailey that will be featured on the 2023 Donate Life Rose Parade float during the 2023 Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 2. This year’s float…