GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – The race for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey is a statistical dead heat, with incumbent Democrat Bob Menendez leading Republican challenger Bob Hugin by two percentage points, according to a Stockton University poll released today. Menendez leads with 45 percent to Hugin’s 43 percent five Read more…
PLEASANTVILLE – A select variety of dogs and cats that are ready for immediate adoption will be available during a special Hurricane Season promotion at the Atlantic County Animal Shelter, beginning Sept. 29. “The normal adoption fees of $110 for dogs and $85 for cats will be reduced to $25 Read more…
MAYS LANDING–Atlantic Cape Community College has been selected as one of 13 community colleges to participate in Gov. Phil Murphy’s “Community College Innovation Challenge,” a pilot program that will launch in the spring semester, January 2019. The program supports making higher education more attainable for New Jersey residents by providing Read more…
TRENTON – With reports of West Nile virus illnesses in people at a record level and persistent warm and rainy weather, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and New Jersey Department of Health are urging property owners to take steps to reduce mosquito populations and to protect themselves against Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Roger B. Hansen Center for Childbirth will hold a Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Ceremony noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct.13 at the gazebo at Patriot Lake Park, 300 E. Jimmie Leeds Road. The ceremony, which marks National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month, Read more…
MAYS LANDING –Stockton University’s partnership with the Atlantic County Recovery Court program was recognized Tuesday, Sept. 11 in a ceremony at the Atlantic County Criminal Courts Complex. But, the real winners of the partnership were participants in the program who have benefitted by obtaining job offers at the university and Read more…
Flu shots are available to residents 18 years and older for $15, cash or check, at several Atlantic County locations starting Sept. 21 through Oct. 24. There is no out-of-pocket fee for the flu shot for Medicare Part B recipients who present their cards. Appointments are not necessary, but reservations can Read more…
TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is co-hosting a free workshop on incentives and green best practices to help the restaurant industry become more sustainable. The workshop will be held 8:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17 at Princeton University Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Level B, Frist Lane. Read more…
MAYS LANDING – The Atlantic County Unit of the League of Women Voters will host a freeholder candidates forum 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 at Atlantic Cape Community College, Walter Edge Theater, Building C, 5100 Black Horse Pike. Candidates invited to participate in the forum include Freeholder-at-large candidates Frank Formica Read more…
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – In October 2008, Stockton University obtained railroad tracks from Bialystok, Poland, a central point in the network of rail lines that moved Holocaust victims to the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Theresienstadt and Majdanek concentration camps. The tracks were used in the powerful design of the entrance to the Sara Read more…