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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.
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...
Staten Island Memorial Day Parade 2024: 181 photos
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Despite rain in the forecast, hundreds of residents gathered along Forest Avenue to remember the fallen at the 105th annual Staten Island Memorial Day Parade, which kicked off in Randall Manor Monday and continued one of the borough’s most storied traditions. Staten Islanders are...
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 […]
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...
NYC’s ‘Hot Dog King’ and disabled Vietnam vet has cart shut down again, claims city out to get him
The city’s “Hot Dog King’’ has been banned from peddling franks from his sidewalk cart because he allegedly lacks the proper permit — but he says it’s just part of a nonsense campaign to harass him out of business. Beloved Manhattan street vendor Dan Rossi, 73, was ordered to close up his cart outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 23 after a city Department of Health inspector cited him for selling without the Disabled Veteran Vendor permit required for that location. But Rossi, a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, told The Post he’s had that permit for decades — and...
Solemn Ceremony Marks Memorial Day in New Brunswick, Highland Park
NEW BRUNSWICK and HIGHLAND PARK – The sick, the homesick and the lovesick – they and others have often sought the help of Air Force chaplain Lt. Colonel Louis A. Mattina. The men and women of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and those he has counseled during one of his many oversea deployments, come to Mattina because they know they are entering a safe haven in which they can share their problems and sometimes shed their pain.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER “In general, those who seek the counseling of a chaplain, it’s to help them...
Couples wanted: NJ shore county hosting a free group wedding
💍 A group wedding is scheduled for June 26 at a golf course. 💍 The group wedding is a trial run for potential future events. Engaged couples are being given the opportunity to tie the knot for free. They just have to be willing to share the spotlight with other lovebirds.
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