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Hoboken Looks To Ban Feeding Birds And Other Wildlife
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Bill Aiming to Ban Large Boxes for Small Items Passes Assembly Committee with ...
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Another Dog Bitten by Bear in Sparta
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Passed the House: Rep. Sherrill’s Legislation to Address and Prevent Flooding ...
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Springtime Bird Sightings in Hawthorne Captured on Film by Holly Cowen
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Rutgers Enlisting State's Teachers, K-12 Students to Fight Against Spotted ...
By JOHN LEE
May 21, 2022NEW YORK, NY - The National Weather Service (NWS) extended the weekend heat advisory through 6 p.m. Sun. May 22. Water in the states lakes and at the Jersey Shore is in the 50s and 60s, presenting a risk for hypothermia.
Local residents, and those in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and Union counties should expect high temperatures and high humidity. Heat index values across much of the ...
NEW YORK, NY - The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a heat advisory for Sat. May 21 from noon to 8 p.m.
Local residents, and those in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and Union counties should expect high temperatures and high humidity. Heat index values across much of the effected area are expected to approach 100.
Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses to ...
HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken is taking steps to make it illegal to feed birds and other wildlife in the city.
During its meeting on Wednesday evening, the city council unanimously introduced an ordinance that seeks to add the anti-feeding policy to the current list of acts prohibited under Hoboken’s nuisance code.
According to the draft ordinance, the feeding of “birds, rodents ...
TRENTON, NJ — “This is a horrendous piece of legislation,” said Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R - District 25) during the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee meeting on Monday.
His objection came prior to the committee clearing Assemblyman John McKeon’s (D - District 27) oversized box regulation. The new legislation would prohibit retailers ...
SPARTA, NJ - A third dog has been attacked by a bear in Sparta. On Saturday night around 11:30 p.m. police said they got a call from residents on Meredith Drive. Their dog had received “a laceration” from a bear.
“The homeowner said the dogs were barking like they wanted to go out,” Lt. Jeff McCarrick said. He said when they let the dogs out they ...
NUTLEY, NJ — Batten down the hatches.
Some stormy springtime weather is headed our way Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, which indicated a tornado isn't out of the question in Northeast New Jersey.
“Thunderstorms ahead of an approaching cold front on Monday have the potential to produce damaging winds,” the service warns. “Large hail ...
WASHINGTON, DC–– Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11), Chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology’s Environment Subcommittee, secured passage of her legislation, the Providing Research and Estimates of Changes In Precipitation (PRECIP) Act, in the House. The PRECIP Act will update out-of-date precipitation data by providing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Holly Cowen, a member of Hawthorne's Green Team, is well known in town for her keen eye in capturing and identifying local birds on film.
She has shared some of her recent pictures with TAPinto Hawthorne, to show residents some of their avian neighbors in their bright array.
The pictures were taken at locations such as Arnold's Pond, the Eight Acre Woods, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – It takes a village to rid a state of spotted lanterflies.
That’s why Rutgers University is enlisting the state’s K-12 teachers and students in a Spotted Lanternfly Eradication Unit through a program designed to teach how to trap and kill the invasive East Asia insect that imperils the Garden State’s crops.
The Rutgers Center for Mathematics, ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark residents and environmental activists pushed back during a public hearing Tuesday against plans to build a power plant at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) wastewater treatment facility in the city’s Ironbound section, a project they said would impact a community already overburdened with pollution.
PVSC held the meeting to gather public comment on ...