Experts: Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccine for Over-65 Patients to Block UK Strain

This story is being republished under a special NJ News Commons content-sharing agreement related to COVID-19 coverage. Link to VIDEO: njspotlight.com/video/experts-prioritize-covid-19-vaccine-for-over-65-patients-to-block-uk-strain/ State health leaders are hoping to vaccinate roughly 4.7 million adult residents. But the vaccination progress comes as medical experts warn that highly contagious coronavirus variants threaten to send numbers surging again. More cases […]

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NJBPU Seeks Input on COVID-19 Related Past-Due Utility Bills Assistance Programs

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has scheduled three virtual public meetings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on utility bill arrearages, or bills that are past-due. In October, Gov. Phil Murphy extended the moratorium on residential utility shutoffs for electric, gas, and both public and private water utility service through March

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Sweet Reality

With America’s sweethearts planning to spend $21.8 billion on Valentine’s Day this weekend—even with COVID-19 limiting celebrations—the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its nationally representative 2021 Valentine’s Day Spending Survey. Here are some of its findings. • Some People Want Love More Than Health: 50 percent of people would rather get shot by Cupid’s arrow

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Angelic Health to Hold Free Conference for Healthcare Professionals

If you a social worker, case manager, licensed nursing home administrator, or certified assisted living administrator, this conference is for you. The 3rd Annual Angelic Health Conference—Leading Healthcare Innovation will cover topics from recent and trending developments affecting the future of healthcare, and is sponsored by New Standard Senior Living. This Virtual Healthcare Conference is

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NJ Association of Counties Names Derella 2nd Vice President

Joseph Derella, director of the Cumberland Board of Commissioners, was sworn in as the second Vice President of the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) at its virtual annual reorganization meeting held on January 29. The NJAC is dedicated to advocating for legislation, regulations and policy directives that empower county governments to operate more efficiently

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Musso Elected South Jersey Commissioners Association President

Cumberland County Commissioner Carol Musso, was elected to serve as president of the South Jersey Commissioners (formerly Freeholders) Association at its virtual reorganization meeting held recently. The SJCA membership consists of the commissioners of the eight South Jersey counties and provides a forum for South Jersey’s commissioners to share information and work together on issues

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New State-of-the-Art Equipment at Inspira’s NICU in Vineland

Inspira Health has brought new climate-controlled beds and sophisticated IV pumps online in the Deborah F. Sager Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Inspira Medical Center Vineland. With more than $300,000 from the Deborah F. Sager Memorial Fund appropriated for the new state-of-the-art beds, pumps, and additional equipment, this purchase is the largest use of

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Support Our Restaurants

Last spring, we developed a program to help our downtown restaurants, when the COVID crisis was really beginning to take hold—Take Out Thursdays. The premise of this program was simple. It was a way to give our restaurants on The Ave an extra boost during the hard times. It was a way for you to

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Penny Reader

In the opening sequence of the new Paul Greengrass film News of the World, Tom Hanks’s character, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, is readying himself for a public appearance before a waiting audience seated at a town hall in 1870 Texas. Kidd is neither an actor nor a musician. He travels from town to town earning

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