Tag: Old Bridge Municipal Alliance
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Old Bridge partners with PDFNJ, local businesses in ‘It is time to consider opioid alternatives’ campaign
OLD BRIDGE – It is time to consider opioid alternatives. That is the message Old Bridge officials are hoping to get across to as many people as possible. And what better way than the message on a digital billboard along the busy Route 9 corridor. The billboard’s message states: “Americans Are Now More Likely…
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Old Bridge Township Parks and Recreation provides for young and old
OLD BRIDGE – The Old Bridge Township Parks and Recreation Department is one of the more visible departments in the township, providing something for everyone young and old. “We have had services for as young as 2 years old to our [members at] Silver Linings [at Old Bridge] at 100 years old,” Matthew Mercurio, director…
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Old Bridge to hold town forum on opioid crisis on April 30
A Mayor’s Town Forum on the opioid crisis will be held at 6:30 p.m. on April 30 at the Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Arts Building, 3 Hospital Plaza, Old Bridge. Guest speakers will include Dr. Bonnie Nolan, Addiction Services coordinator for Peer Recovery in Woodbridge; and William F. DiStanislao, vice president, Operations &…
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Old Bridge fighting opiate addiction epidemic
OLD BRIDGE — The Municipal Alliance coordinator position has been expanded to a full-time role. Three entities — the Old Bridge Township School District, Old Bridge Township and Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge — banded together to not only extend the coordinator into a full-time role, but set forth resources…
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Woodbridge provides resources for drug addiction recovery
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — With the implementation of the new Peer Recovery Coach Program in the township, those suffering with drug addiction will get the support they need straight from the emergency room. The statistics are sobering — 19 people died in Woodbridge last year from overdoses, which Mayor John E. McCormac…