SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. — With restrictions from COVID19 beginning to lift, the need for safe travel planning can be easily met online with Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce members newly launched, high performance, tourism related website.

In time for summer, this dynamic site brings local knowledge directly to travelers coming from near or far. The Southern Ocean County ...

OCEAN COUNTY, NJ – People north of the Driscoll Bridge look to Memorial Day to begin their trek “go down the shore.”  For Ocean County residents, a visit to the sand and surf is more commonly referred to as hitting the beach. With just two weeks away, it is important to know about beach badges and the like.

In Southern Ocean County, Long Beach Island offers an assortment ...

TRENTON, NJ -  On the same day that Gov. Phil Murphy announced that New Jersey has surpassed 100,000 cases of COVID-19, he stressed, as he has in previous briefings, that the “curve is still flat.”

Several key statistics are also moving in the right direction, New Jersey Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli added, including a 17 percent decrease from the high ...

FANWOOD, NJ -- COVID-19 isn't necessarily a death sentence, but it could have been. Just ask bar owner Sean Flannery of Sheelen's Crossing Pub & Bistro on South Ave. in Fanwood. 

Coronavirus has taken a horrible toll at facilities for retired veterans homes and at nursing homes across the state, and many of the sickest patients are age 65 and over. Flannery, who recently ...

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Representative. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) announced Wednesday a $157,000 supplemental Airport Improvement Fund grant to Teterboro Airport, according to a press release from Pascrell's office. The funding was made available in the CARES “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security“ Act, as part of a $10 Billion fund of which $160 Million of ...

NUTLEY, NJ - After learning that Nutley second grader Grace Miller stands on her porch every night at 7 p.m. to clap and cheer for the Essential Personnel combating COVID-19 coronavirus, the men and women of the Nutley Volunteer Emergency and Rescue Squad (NVERS) thanked her with a drive-by Friday night. 

As the clock struck 7, Grace, and her parents, Michele Traina and Craig Miller, ...

BELLEVILLE, NJ - Township officials have declared a local state of emergency as they continue to take measures to keep residents safe and secure in the wake of coronavirus COVID-19.

As of 5 p.m., Emergency Management Coordinator Martin Lutz and Township Manager Anthony Iacono signed the order.

The declaration of emergency allows Township Officials broader power in the efforts to combat ...

ELIZABETH, NJ - It’s 4 p.m. on a typical Thursday afternoon at the Gateway Family YMCA in Elizabeth, filled with youth and teen programs during the after-school hours before dinner.

You wouldn’t know that it is also home, this one day each week, to a special Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey troop known as “Juliette’s House.” There are no welcome or directional ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — A South Jersey couple who had to call off their cruise wedding when the worldwide coronavirus outbreak required their guests obtain passports at the last minute has a second shot at keeping their nuptials on schedule thanks to a downtown business.

Daniela Kenmure, 29, and Joclyn Kirchner, 28, had booked a Norwegian Line cruise for their wedding but the cruise company ...

ELIZABETH, NJ - City and school leaders are eager to honor a lifelong Elizabeth resident, Chessie Dentley Roberts, 93, a typing and business education teacher in the school district for 30 years who retired in 1991.

On February 26, at 6:30 p.m., friends and family will gather on Pennsylvania Avenue, when the former Ronald Reagan Academy will be officially renamed Chessie Dently Roberts ...