Membership Counts

In this space, I often write about special events held around our county in the areas of entertainment, art, and history. This week I’d like to tell you about memberships in a few nonprofit organizations that bring you wonderful events through the year. If you’re an outdoor person, consider joining Citizens United to Protect the […]

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Sustain & Serve Program to Offer New Round of Funding Early Next Month

Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced that it will open applications for a new round of Sustain & Serve NJ funding early next month. The announcement follows approval of enhancements to the program today by the NJEDA’s Board. The NJEDA’s Sustain & Serve NJ program provides eligible entities with grants up

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NJ Parents Have Mixed Feelings as State Plans to Lift School Mask Mandate

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to story: whyy.org/articles/murphy-to-end-nj-school-mask-mandate/ New Jersey’s statewide school mask mandate will end on March 7, Gov. Phil Murphy announced last Monday, marking the end of a controversial pandemic restriction. “Early March traditionally means the weather starts to warm

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Vineland Paper Products Company Acquired by West Coast Company

BradyIFS, a distributor of foodservice disposables and janitorial/sanitation products, has acquired SupplyitAll, a South Jersey Paper Company based in Vineland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1950 as South Jersey Paper Products, the company began operating as SupplyitAll in 2018 and offers one of the most comprehensive product and service programs in

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Public Health Considerations for COVID-19 Home-based / Self-tests

A variety of home-based COVID-19 tests are available. While all involve self-collection of specimens, some test kits require a prescription and others are over-the-counter (OTC), also referred to as self-tests. Some collections/testing are observed by a telehealth provider, some involve self-collection but are sent to a laboratory for processing, and others use self-collection and self-testing

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NJ Department of Agriculture Works with Rowan on Soil Mapping

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has partnered with the Rowan University GeoSpatial Research Lab to provide an online tool that allows users in the agricultural community to access, view and print soils reports by tax parcel. The tool incorporates several components that benefit the farmland assessment process. Use of the tool is optional and

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Vineland Native Becomes Commander at Recruit Training Center

Rear Admiral Jennifer S. Couture, a Vineland native, recently relieved Rear Admiral Milton J. Sands as commander of the Naval Service Training Command on Naval Station at Great Lakes. This recruit training center is the only boot camp for Navy recruits in the country. Admiral Couture was commissioned through the NROTC program at George Washington

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Weekly Update: Declining COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Masking in Schools

Excerpted from February 7, 2022 message to the community, inspirahealthnetwork.org/covid19 This week has been some monumental days for us. Just this morning, taping on Monday, we had under a hundred COVID patients across our three hospitals. That’s the lowest we’ve had since the 6th of December. Many, many people have been vaccinated, 6.6 million are

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