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FAIR LAWN & GLEN ROCK, NJ - It's much easier to take people's freedoms away than to give them back.~ Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

While COVID-19 has determined public policy for the last two months, most people have been complying with little push back. But, as the weather improves, and we move into summer, people are bound to get ansy. Pent-up demand ...

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For the bulk of the 41 municipalities stitched up and down the Atlantic coast, from Sea Bright to Cape May Point, the 15 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day are ...

MILWAUKEE – The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum announced plans to make a bobblehead of NJ Gov. Phil Murphy. 

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum will donate $5 from every Gov. Murphy Bobblehead sold to the Protect The Heroes fund in support of the 100 Million Mask Challenge, the same cause that the ...

NEW JERSEY – While businesses prepare to get back to work, safety is top of mind, giving rise to SafeTemp Kiosk, a touchless thermal temperature scanner for fever detection in public and work environments.

SafeTemp Kiosk

The origins of SafeTemp Kiosk came from the thinking of entrepreneurial minds at Media Services Worldwide: how could they use their knowledge and current product line ...

NATIONAL -- The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way the world shops, perhaps forever in some respects. Consumers are spending more money even while social distancing, according to personal finance website WalletHub’s new Coronavirus Shopping Survey.

During social distancing, about 58 million Americans are spending more than normal, which is a cause for concern, considering ...

GLEN ROCK, NJ - The Glen Rock Guild is holding its first ever ONLINE Spring Bazaar, according to Supriya Kapur, president of the Guild, from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 3.

The Glen Rock Guild, a non-profit organization dedicated to making the community stronger through Arts, Business, Community and Educational events, is working at full speed to help the small business ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Phil Murphy and State Police Colonel Patrick Callahan announced an Administrative Order clarifying which businesses are permitted to operate and ways in which certain businesses may operate in accordance with Executive Order 107. The Administrative Order states the following:

Pet groomers, pet daycare, and pet boarding businesses are considered essential ...

TRENTON, NJ – Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday appointed a commission to advise the administration on the timing and preparation for New Jersey’s recovery from the COVID-19 shutdown.

The Governor’s Restart and Recovery Commission includes 21 members, all with a vast wealth of experience in health care, business, finance, academics, and economics and will be chaired by ...

TRENTON, NJ - Even as he celebrated the “curve is still flat” in efforts to beat back COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the signing of a new Executive Order that allows tenants in residential properties to use their security deposit to help cover rent.

Previous to the Order, Chief Counsel Matt Platkin explained, there had been a statutory bar on such action.

NEW JERSEY- More than 850,000 new unemployment claims have been filed in New Jersey during this pandemic, according to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The record number of claims across the state have overwhelmed the state’s system, and those across the nation, said New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo. 

Asaro-Angelo promised that all ...