Tag: Middlesex County
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Middlesex County awards additional $4.2M in funding to small businesses
With Middlesex County’s latest disbursement of $4,246,819 in grant funding to small businesses, the total amount awarded through the Small Business Relief Grant (SBRG) program is $10,859,415 to a total of 421 businesses. The SBRG program, which utilizes federal CARES Act funding, serves to reimburse costs and loss of revenue associated with adapting business operations in a COVID-19 environment. The deadline…
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Grants fund job training in three Central Jersey counties
Residents in Hunterdon, Middlesex and Somerset counties who are unemployed because of COVID-19 have access to a new training grant program through the counties’ workforce development boards. The Consortium of the Greater Raritan Workforce Development Board, serving Hunterdon and Somerset counties; and the Workforce Development Board of Middlesex County has received $277,750 in COVID-19 Dislocated…
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Officials announce requests for design for North Brunswick train station
NORTH BRUNSWICK – The train station project in North Brunswick is underway, creating a community, not just a method of commuting, according to Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT). State, county and local officials announced on Oct. 14 that NJ Transit has approved the release of a Request for Proposal…
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Middlesex County awards $3 million in Small Business Relief Grants
In its first round of distribution, Middlesex County will award grants to 123 local businesses with a collective total of $3,039,716 from its CARES Act Small Business Relief Grant (MC-SBRG) program, which uses federal CARES Act funding. The grants serve to reimburse costs and loss of revenue associated with adapting business operations in a COVID-19…
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Middlesex County develops interactive map for discovering local growers
A new online guide to Middlesex County’s growers and agricultural product producers, “Grown in Middlesex County,” will help residents find that perfect farmers’ market, Halloween pumpkin, fresh apples for apple pie, or fall flower and vegetable transplants, right from the backyard. The Grown in Middlesex County interactive map, which allows users to choose from farmers markets,…
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Middlesex County partners with East Brunswick to unveil system-wide COVID-19 testing as schools reopen
Middlesex County is partnering with East Brunswick and its Board of Education to implement a unique model for testing students and faculty to prevent and abate the spread of COVID-19 as the new school season begins. This pilot testing program will invite students, faculty and staff to get tested on a voluntary basis by onsite…
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Shred event on Sept. 12 open to all county residents
Middlesex County will hold a residential shred event from 9 a.m. to noon, or until the truck is full, on Sept. 12 in Beech Woods Park, 137 Beekman Road, South Brunswick. This is a free shred program open to residents of Middlesex County, by which residents may shred and recycle old confidential files safely and…
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Middlesex County CARES ACT Small Business Relief Grant Program to aid local businesses impacted by COVID-19
To assist local small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, Middlesex County is implementing a new round of funding in its CARES Act Small Business Relief Grant (MC-SBRG) program which utilizes federal CARES Act funding. These grants will serve to reimburse costs and loss of revenue associated with adopting business operations in a post-COVID-19 environment. The…
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Residential shred day open to Middlesex County residents
Middlesex County will hold a residential paper shred program from 9 a.m. to noon on Aug. 8, or until the shredding truck is filled, rain or shine, at Cranbury School, 23 N. Main St., Cranbury. Free for county residents only. No businesses. Limit five file boxes or 100 pounds per car. Paper must be in…
