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Do You Know Which New Jersey Town Is the Oldest In The State?
New Jersey is one of the oldest states in the nation, and our history is an incredibly rich one. Do you know the oldest town in New Jersey?. We love to dig into the Garden State history books and learn as much as we can about the amazing history of New Jersey. One of the basics is which town in the state is considered the oldest.
Is the ‘Oz Escape Experience’ Coming to New Jersey a Scam?
Over the past month or so, I have been getting ads for something called the "Oz Escape Experience" hosted by Questo. The ads have very obviously AI-generated images of people dressed as Dorothy, The Lion, The Tin Man, and The Scarecrow. Immediately, I thought of the Glasgow Scandal that was...
Rare magnitude 2.9 earthquake strikes the heart of New Jersey; Shaking felt in parts of New York
Early Friday morning, a 2.9-magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The tremor occurred at 3:50 a.m., with the epicenter located approximately 4.3 miles from Gladstone.
Memorial Day in South Orange and Maplewood, NJ
Maplewood and South Orange, NJ – May 27, 2024, was Memorial Day and the observances for both towns that comprise SOMA had been carefully planned. However, the weather executed changes to the plans. In South Orange the Memorial Ceremony was canceled early in the morning while the heavy rain was still falling.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER In Maplewood, the decision was made a bit later in the morning, and there was a reprieve from the rainstorm, allowing the plans to go forward. However, due to a policy prohibiting school musical instruments to be...
List: New Jersey Memorial Day parades canceled due to rain
NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – Monday’s holiday brought with it stormy skies and wet weather, forcing multiple New Jersey Memorial Day parades to cancel. Rain and thunderstorms are expected in New York and New Jersey Monday, with temperatures in the high 60s and low 70s. Rain is expected to pick up during the evening, getting more intense […]
New Jersey beach opens on a Sunday for first time in 155 years despite Christian court battle
For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services.The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that established a Christian seaside retreat at the Jersey Shore in 1869, said it had closed its beaches on Sunday mornings during religious services in Ocean Grove for more than a century and a half before the state Department of Environmental Protection accused the group of violating state beach access...
NYC grocers gripe over fruit vendors so close to their stores: ‘Pick off our customers’
City grocery-store owners are blasting Big Apple officials for allowing licensed fruit and vegetable vendors on the same block as their shops — in some cases fewer than 30 feet away — eating into their profits. In Forest Hills, Queens, a fruit and vegetable stand is located just 25 feet from a Key Food supermarket on the northern side of Queens Boulevard between 71st Avenue and 71st Road. “They know they can pick off our customers,” fumed Nelson Eusebio, political director of the National Supermarket Association, which reps 600 Key Food, C-Town, Associated, Bravo and other grocers in the city. The window alongside...
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