McGuckin Calls on Murphy, Haines to Reopen Parks, Introduces Bill to Fine You $10,000 for Using Them

TOMS RIVER-It’s not quite clear where Assemblyman Greg P. McGuckin’s head is these days. Last week, McGuckin introduced a bill to the New Jersey Assembly that would fine residents $10,000 per incident…

Pennsylvania Workers Spent 28 Full Days Isolated in Factory Making N95 Mask Components

Braskem one of the largest polyolefins producers in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, today announced its enhanced support to meet the polypropylene raw material needs of medical…

Dozens More Charged with Violating Murphy’s Law, Social Distancing Rules in New Jersey

TRENTON, NJ – The following people were rounded up by police officers across New Jersey for violating Murphy’s Law and social distancing guidelines by Governor Phil Murphy. Tuvia Liberana, 53, of Passaic,…

Governor Murphy Reason on Park Closures Due to Religious Gatherings

OCEAN COUNTY-Several weeks ago, Ocean County Freeholder Virginia Haines, 89, closed all of Ocean County’s parks because of large gatherings of religious Orthodox Jews visiting a bayside park in Brick Township. Publicly,…

McGuckin Flip Flops on COVID-19 Park Closures

TOMS RIVER- New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin yesterday joined his fellow Republicans in the New Jersey Assembly to overturn Governor Phil Murphy’s closure of state parks. McGuckin and Republicans, who are…

New Jersey Democrats Back Murphy, Vote to Keep State Parks Closed

TRENTON, NJ – The fight to keep New Jersey’s State Parks open during the COVID-19 epidemic has gone straight down the party line. New Jersey Assembly Democrats defeated Republicans 52-27, signaling the…

New Jersey Property Taxes Second Fastest Growing in United States in 2020

ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its 2019 property tax analysis for more than 86 million U.S. single family…

Governor Murphy Shuts Down All State and County Parks

TRENTON-Governor Phil Murphy today announced the immediate closure of all of New Jersey’s state and county parks. Earlier this week, Ocean County Freeholder Virginia Haines, 78, ordered Ocean County parks closed. A…

Haines Says She Didn’t Close Parks Because of Orthodox Jewish Presence in Brick

Ocean County Freeholder said many young people in the county are contracting COVID-19 coronavirus, which led her to close the parks, not reports of large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents. TOMS RIVER-Ocean…

Americans All Vow to Stop Leaving Latex Gloves in Store Parking Lots

It took a lot of coaxing and embarrassing news stories, but today, all Americans have agreed to stop dropping their used latex surgical gloves in store parking lots. “It’s a great relief…

Eldest Freeholder Ginny Haines Threatens to Shut Down All County Parks

TOMS RIVER-Ocean County Freeholder Virginia Haines, 77, the eldest leader on the aging Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders is telling people to stay off her grass today. Haines, announced the closure…

Freeholders Approve $2.5 Million Plan for Prospect Street Construction in Lakewood

LAKEWOOD-If you haven’t driven down Prospect Street in Lakewood in a while, you may not recognize it today. The road used to be a quaint tree-lined road on the south side with…

Out of Work with Nothing to Do? Ocean County Parks Offering Social Media Programming

Coming live from the Nature Center at Cattus Island County Park in Toms River will be Nikki Vernachio, senior park naturalist, who will talk about the Box Turtle. “We encourage everyone to…

Ocean County Operated Golf Courses and Nature Centers Closed

TOMS RIVER – With social distancing strongly encouraged by health officials, Ocean County Parks and Recreation will be keeping its 27 parks open to the public, but closing the visitor and nature…

Novak: Ginny Haines Just Wants a Woman

TOMS RIVER-What is driving the Ocean County Republican leadership team to continue hedging their bets on a candidate for U.S. Congress that has a rap sheet similar to Snooki from the MTV…

Jackson Mayor Healing Party Wounds Through Public Contracts

JACKSON-It hasn’t even been one year since Lacey resident Frank B. Holman, III, not to be confused with Frank B. Holman, Jr., took control of the Ocean County Republican party, but scars…

Ginny Haines Doubles Down on Support for Congressional Candidate Banned from Kohls for Shoplifting

TOMS RIVER-Ocean County Freeholders Virginia “Ginny” Haines and Garry Quinn were only two of five freeholders to sign off this week on a personal endorsement of former Burlington County Freeholder Kate Gibbs…

They’re a Danger, So Have Their Guns Taken Away (All of them?)…

ANOTHER LAW PASSED September 1, 2019 quietly passed for many of New Jersey’s citizens. The day-to-day operations and ins and outs of living in the Garden State serves our legislature and executive…

New York D.A. Takes Down Gun Traffickers in New York City

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea today announced the indictment JUSTIN HOLMES-AUSTIN, 33, and THOMAS SOLOMON, 49, for selling 40 firearms and corresponding…

Los Angeles-area gang member sentenced to 40 years in prison for racketeering charges, including 2016 murder of rival gangster

Leonardo Antolin, 25, a.k.a. “Rowdy,” of Whittier, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who said that Antolin had shown a “lack of concern for members of the community” through…

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