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Big box store shopping in New Jersey just got smaller
In an ever ugly and sad trend another big box store announced that they are closing a chunk of their stores and trying to reorganize to stay above drowning in debt. National discount retailer Big Lots, with close to 1,400 stores nationally including twenty-seven in Monmouth and Ocean counties here in New Jersey, has announced that they are closing up to forty stores nationally and opening three more. Big Lots closed fifty-two stores in 2023 due to inferior performance.
Nadine Menendez's trial postponed indefinitely
Washington — A judge postponed the trial of Nadine Menendez, the wife of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, indefinitely. "The trial of this matter is adjourned sine die," Judge Sidney Stein wrote in an order Monday. Her lawyer, Marc Eisenstein, declined to comment. Originally scheduled to be tried with her husband, Nadine Menendez's trial had been postponed until August because she's recovering from breast cancer surgery. The diagnosis was revealed in a statement by the senator a day after his attorneys pinned the blame on her during opening statements of his bribery trial. The jury has not been told of her health issues in court. "Nadine is suffering from Grade...
Grocery store jobs in NY, NJ: ShopRite, Fairway Market hiring
NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – Looking for work? A slew of supermarkets are hiring across New York and New Jersey this month. On July 27, ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Gourmet Garage and Fairway Market locations will host job fairs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Select locations across a few states will offer […]
NJ taking on severe form of pneumonia … through public water systems
⚫ People can fall ill by breathing in droplets of water containing the bacteria. ⚫ The threat is greater for people with weaker immune systems. ⚫ First-in-the-nation legislation has been sent to Gov. Murphy. It's up to Gov. Phil Murphy whether New Jersey will step up prevention and control efforts...
Walk-up job fair coming to a NJ grocery store near you
You go to the grocery store to stock up on food, but come July 27, it’ll be the site of a job fair. New Jersey will be one of six states participating in walk-up job fairs at most Price Rite Marketplace, ShopRite and The Fresh Grocer locations. Interviews will...
Community Hope Receives Grant from Bank of America to Support Mental Health and Veterans Programs
PARSIPPANY — Community Hope, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals with severe mental health diagnoses and homeless veterans and their families, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Bank of America. This grant will enable Community Hope to continue providing essential services such as shelter, food, clothing, and medicine to those in need while promoting economic mobility in New Jersey.
‘Still’ is historically significant but stagnant on N.J. stage | Review
William Still is an unsung hero of American history. A Philadelphia-based conductor on the Underground Railroad, Still helped hundreds of enslaved people escape to freedom. The process of helping one of those men, Peter Friedman, turned out to be an amazing and improbable story that sounds too fantastical to be true. Yet it is.
Fugitive NJ truck driver arrested after Route 1 crash killed 3
⬜ Van driver and 2 passengers died in fiery wreck. A New Jersey truck driver was captured in Georgia on charges of a horrific wreck that killed three people in a van along Route 1 in Middlesex County. The April 12 crash claimed the lives of 24-year-old van driver Charisse...
Amazons Big Change That Will Affect New Jersey Residents
There is a change with Amazon shipping today and will impact the upcoming Prime Day next week. We've all ordered stuff from Amazon and we've seen what I'm going to write about. Those plastic air pillows that we receive from packages in New Jersey and North America. But, Amazon recently...
Costco change to a popular food item upsets customers in NJ
Costco has made a big change to its rotisserie chickens and customers are not thrilled about it. The change is not about the taste of the $4.99 chickens but the way they are packaged. As of March, the membership-only warehouse store began replacing its hard-plastic packaging with flexible plastic bags,...
More than 20 bank branches in NJ set to close
💰 The merge means 22 NJ bank branches will close. Any New Jersey resident who banks at Lakeland or Provident will want to know about this. Lakeland and Provident Banks have decided to merge, and that means 22 branches in New Jersey will close. The parent companies of the...
Man swept from NYC beach found by fishermen 2 miles from NJ shore
A man was pulled out to sea by the tide from a New York City beach and was found by fishermen almost two miles away from the shoreline in New Jersey.Police said a 34-year-old man went into the water at Breezy Point in Queens when he was swept out by the tide.The man said he was treading water for several hours until he was found by the fishermen.Police received a call at 9 a.m. that a commercial fisherman spotted a swimmer in distress about two miles away from the shoreline of Sandy Hook.The fisherman and his son brought the man...
Your chemicals contaminated our water supply, N.J. city says in lawsuit against Dow
Garfield is suing Dow Chemical Company and others for allegedly contaminating the Bergen County city’s drinking water with a synthetic industrial chemical suspected of causing cancer. The city’s water supply was allegedly contaminated with 1,4-dioxane, a solvent and component used in paints and ink that the International Agency for...
Discussions to reopen Route 611 continue
Stroudsburg, Monroe Co. — Discussions continue between local state legislators, PENNDOT and the National Park Service (NPS), as they work to figure out a plan to reopen Route 611. The route has been closed since December 2022 after a rockslide along Mount Minsi. Senator Rosemary M. Brown (R-40) has...
Severe thunderstorm watch affecting Pike County Monday night
On Monday at 6:52 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 9 p.m. for Pike County. Preparing for impending lightning strikes: Expert safety recommendations. Lightning strikes the United States approximately 25 million times each year, with the bulk of these electrical discharges occurring during...
Former Morris County baseball star selected by St. Louis Cardinals in MLB Draft
Jack Findlay’s big-game mentality and ability to perform when the stakes are high landed the former Roxbury High School pitcher on the biggest stage. The Notre Dame junior and Roxbury resident was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals with the No. 6 pick of the eighth round of the 2024 MLB Draft.
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