BRANCHBURG, NJ – She was just cutting hair outside of her hair salon when police showed up and issued a violation. Melissa Colangelo, 50, of Hillsborough, N.J., was charged by the Branchburg Police on May 23 with violating the emergency orders by opening her business, DJ’s Salon on Route 202. Colangelo, trying to make ends meet, began servicing customers in defiance of Governor Phil Murphy’s ban on small business operations in the Garden State.
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