Tag: Amazon
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Amazon partners with Middlesex College to provide fully-funded tuition for hourly employees
Amazon provides tuition and eligible fees for its hourly employees to attend colleges and universities all across the nation, now including Middlesex College. “We’re looking forward to Middlesex College coming on board as an education partner for Career Choice, adding to the hundreds of best-in-class offerings available to our employees,” Tammy Thieman, Global Program Lead…
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Creature Comfort Pet Therapy celebrates 10 years of offering comfort through ‘wet noses, warm hearts’
METUCHEN – For years, Bruiser, the late black Labrador therapy dog, with his owner Joanne Markano, was a regular in the area with more than 200 visits to Menlo Park Elementary School in Edison and more than 100 visits to the Children’s Room of the Metuchen Public Library. His legacy lives on through a book…
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Borough officials move Gulton Tract, Oakite redevelopment plans forward, excludes warehouse distribution facilities
METUCHEN – Borough officials are moving forward in efforts to preserve the access area to the vast Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve and prevent new industrial warehouse distribution facilities and truck related uses to move into what is known as the Gulton Tract. The Borough Council will consider the second reading of an ordinance…
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Edison Public Library Receives Donation
On July 19, in anticipation of the new Amazon delivery station opening in Edison, Amazon contributed $1,500 to the Edison Public Library Foundation for the library’s summer reading program. “We want to thank Amazon for their generous donation,” said Pat Massey, library board president. “The check will be used to kickstart next year’s summer reading…
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Officials investigate fire at Amazon warehouse in Cranbury
CRANBURY – Authorities are investigating a warehouse fire at an Amazon facility in Cranbury. Officers of the Cranbury Police Department, along with members of several fire departments and first aid crews, responded to an Amazon warehouse on Hightstown-Cranbury Station Road following a report of smoke in the building. The fire was located and extinguished after…
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The Gatherings residents petition to close off Princess Road
The planned Amazon “last mile” delivery station, approved for a vacant warehouse at 10 Princess Road, has drawn fire from residents of The Gatherings townhouse development who live down the street from the 340,400-square-foot warehouse. A petition, signed by more than 80 residents of the age-restricted townhouse development, was presented to the Lawrence Township Council…
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Planning Board approves site plan changes for Amazon delivery station
The Lawrence Township Planning Board gave its stamp of approval for changes to the site plan for a 340,400-square-foot warehouse at 10 Princess Road, clearing the way for it to become an Amazon delivery station. The changes approved by the Planning Board at its Nov. 16 meeting include re-striping the parking lot to eliminate all…
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Amazon Logistics to open delivery stations in Edison, Avenel
Amazon Logistics has signed various leases in an effort to open 14 delivery stations in New Jersey in 2020. Delivery stations power the last mile of the order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment centers, are sorted, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The leases have been…
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Edison Amazon employee on home quarantine after testing positive
EDISON – An individual who works at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Edison has tested positive for COVID-19, according to information provided by Amazon. “We are supporting the individual who is recovering,” the company said in a statement. “We are following guidelines from local officials and are taking extreme measures to ensure the safety of…