A Year Gone By

As I look at the calendar, I realize it has been roughly a year since the world turned upside down. April of 2020 was only 12 months ago and yet it seems like we’ve lived a couple of lifetimes over this span. As I write this, we’ve lost some 560,800 Americans to Covid-19. We’re tops […]

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Cover All Kids Initiative to Provide All New Jersey Kids with Health Insurance

Gov. Phil Murphy has highlighted the $20 million investment in the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY2022) budget proposal for Phase 1 of the Cover All Kids campaign. “No child in New Jersey should be left without the support and security of health care coverage,” said Murphy. “The proposed investment toward Cover All Kids in our budget

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Counties Where Poor Health is Prevalent Exhibit Highest COVID-19 Fatality Rates

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to story: njspotlight.com/2021/04/county-rankings-robert-wood-johnson-poor-heath-maps-to-most-covid-19-fatalities-county-data/ Health outcomes have long varied significantly among New Jersey’s 21 counties, and experts say it is no surprise that COVID-19 has taken a greater toll on communities traditionally home to less healthy populations. In

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COVID-19 Variants Help Drive NJ Infection Rate to Highest in Nation

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to FULL story: njspotlight.com/2021/03/covid-19-variants-nj-highest-u-s-infection-rate-gov-murphy-loosens-restrictions/ New Jersey currently has the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in the nation, likely fueled at least in part by the presence of large numbers of viral variants that state health officials

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NJ State Parks Prep for Return of COVID-19 Crowds

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/n-j-state-parks-prep-for-the-return-of-the-covid-19-crowds/ Parks are seeing a bit of a renaissance, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. State and county officials in New Jersey have all said parks have seen an increase in the number of visitors since

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Kaganzev Receives April 2021 New Jersey’s Heartland Hero Award

Alex Kaganzev has been thanklessly working in the background and has restored hope to individuals for more than a decade. He started Project Thanksgiving to collect and distribute turkeys, donations, and food for families in Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem counties. In 2020, Project Thanksgiving afforded over 200 veterans and their families a Thanksgiving meal. His

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Milestone Swim

Diane Tucker, Ed.D., a Pittsgrove resident in her 60s, has been a swimmer throughout her life. Still, the mile she swam earlier this month was probably the sweetest ever. She accomplished this feat at the Kontes Family Pool at the Cumberland Cape Atlantic YMCA, just eight months after a double lung transplant. Tucker has been

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