• JCP&L spent $250M on upgrades

    Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) completed more than 160 infrastructure projects and other initiatives in 2014 to help enhance service reliability to its 1.1 million customers in northern and central New Jersey, according to a press release. Some of the key projects included the following:  Completing a $15 million expansion of a substation…

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    Laurita Winery, New Egypt, held the perfect trifecta during the weekend of Nov. 29 – the Food Truck, Fire Pits and Fireworks event on the winery grounds. The event featured food trucks from throughout the area, tours of the winery grounds and dancing to country bands. A portion of the proceeds from this family event…

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     Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence will host its third annual Casino Night fundraiser at 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township. The cost is $75 per person and includes money for gambling entertainment, a buffet dinner, dessert and cash bar. Details: www.mtfee.org.  William D. Kastning, executive director of the…

  • Allentown students to perform ‘Legally Blonde, The Musical’

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent ALLENTOWN — The trials and tribulations of Harvard’s beloved sorority girl will be revisited onstage when Allentown High School students perform “Legally Blonde, The Musical” this month. The play, which is based on the novel by Amanda Brown and on the 2001 movie “Legally Blonde” starring Reese Witherspoon, will be performed…

  • Brookdale Community College announces new leadership team

    Eight Brookdale Community College administrators have been selected to lead the college’s newly redesigned academic and student services divisions, which will be rolled out this year as part of a campuswide reorganization. The appointments, which were announced in late January, include four academic deans, a new Freehold Township campus dean and a new dean of…

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    KAREN KESTEN Wind creates patterns in a snowdrift in central New Jersey.

  • New Jersey should opt out of PARCC test

    I attended the Jan. 29 public hearing at Jackson Liberty High School in Jackson that was held by the Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey — not as a parent, school administrator or teacher, but just as an observer and a concerned citizen regarding the future education of our children…

  • Governors fail public on reform legislation

    Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie — two ethically challenged governors — confirmed again that they would be moral dwarfs as president, the office they covet. Despite the unanimous endorsement of Port Authority reform legislation by all four New York and New Jersey legislative bodies, these governors vetoed the legislation. There is simply no honest defense…

  • ABLE Act helps individuals with disabilities

    When your child or loved one has an intellectual or developmental disability, you spend a lot of time worrying about the future. That is why I was very grateful that Congress passed and President Barack Obama recently signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act, also known as the ABLE Act. This legislation will allow…

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