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NJCDC Launches Effort to Develop 10-Year Plan for Great Falls Neighborhood

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By TAPINTO PATERSON STAFF

May 24, 2020

PATERSON, NJ- As elected officials, healthcare professionals, and community leaders continue to consider an immediate post-coronavirus future, Paterson’s New Jersey Development Corporation (NJCDC), through a new steering committee, is looking even further ahead through a new steering committee.

According to NJCDC leadership the “robust group” of neighborhood ...

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PATERSON, NJ – Locals who find themselves struggling due to the COVID-19 crisis can turn to the Passaic County One-Stop Career Center, which has been working throughout the outbreak to help those in need.

With New Jersey’s unemployment numbers continuing on the rise, the Center’s services, which seek to help people find work or the training they’ll need to land a job, ...

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PATERSON, NJ - Despite social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders, Paterson’s Planning Board and Board of Adjustment continue to meet, and carry heavy workloads. On Wednesday, the Planning Board is set to meet virtually at 6:30 p.m. and consider four projects.

Among them is the redevelopment of a surface parking lot and adjacent three story building in the city’s Great ...

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NEW JERSEY - A web portal has been created by the State Department of Labor that will allow residents to contact the Department of Labor directly. The effort, state officials said, comes after more than 850,000 new unemployment claims have been filed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The record number of claims, New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said, ...

Isabella Has Been Counted, Have You?

By PATERSON CENSUS SELFIES

Even at 10-years-old Paterson's Isabella Vilchez knows how important it is for her family to be counted in Census 2020.

"When you respond to the census you help your community get its fair share in federal funds," Isabella said, adding that this is important for schools, hospitals, roads, public works, and other vital programs.

Click here to get counted today.

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By TALENA LACHELLE QUEEN

“Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”

W.E.B. Du Bois wrote those lines in the Souls of Black Folk in 1907 and more than one ...

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By FELICIAN UNIVERSITY

Improvement and growth are often born of adversity. When trouble strikes good people step up to fill a void, answer a question, or satisfy a need.

That was the idea behind Felician University’s first virtual Alumni Networking event held Thursday May 7th. Approximately 40 attendees tuned in to the online presentation Business Opportunities in Troubled Times that featured a keynote ...

By TAPINTO PATERSON STAFF

RUTHERFORD, NJ - While they’ll have to wait until September for their official “pinning” ceremony, a new crop of graduates representing the 57th graduating class of Felician University’s School of Nursing filled seven different screens May 12 as they took part in an online ceremony launching their nursing careers.

Since its inception more than half a century ago ...

By PVWC PUBLIC OUTREACH

CLIFTON, NJ - As part of the Routes 3 and 46 project, an NJDOT contractor will be performing a 12-inch main replacement on Valley Road between Robin Hood Road and St. Philips Drive.

This work is scheduled to start today, May 28, 2020 and will take approximately 6-8 weeks to complete. There will be no road closures during this period.

Customers should note that there may ...

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Black Lives Still Matter

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By PRESIDENT DAVID E. SCHROEDER, PILLAR COLLEGE, NEWARK, NJ

June 4, 2020

In the summer of 2016, the killing of black youths in Minnesota and Louisiana and subsequent killing of five policemen in Dallas brought to the fore the "Black Lives Matter" theme. At that time, I wrote a piece called “Black Lives Matter.” Then and now, it is an antagonizing and contentious phrase that fuels the racial fire that has been scorching our land since the ...

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The Bronze Shields of Passaic County is a Minority Law Enforcement Association whose purpose is to promote unity among African American Law Enforcement Professionals within Passaic County (NJ) and to provide community- based solutions to policing issues which have a direct impact on the African American, Latino and other minority communities.

We’ve been successful in our mission to ...

Superintendent Eileen Shafer Making Things Happen During Difficult Time, BOE Commissioner Says

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By COREY L TEAGUE

May 27, 2020

Dear Readers:

Disclaimer: this letter expresses my personal thoughts and opinions. I am not speaking for the Board but as a resident who happens to be a member of the Paterson board of Education.

We have been living in some of the most uncertain of times. Difficulties have almost been insurmountable at times. I want to say that given all we have been through, our superintendent ...

Free At-Home COVID-19 Testing For Passaic County Residents

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By TAPINTO WAYNE STAFF

May 30, 2020

WAYNE, NJ – All Passaic County residents can now sign up to receive a free COVID-19 saliva test kit that can be self-administered at home. This is the first at-home testing model being conducted by any local or county government in the State of New Jersey.

The Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders is partnering with Vault Medical Services of New Jersey and the Rutgers Clinical ...

More on Day Care, Camps and Pools Reopening from Murphy

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By STEPHANIE A. FAUGHNAN

May 31, 2020

TRENTON, NJ – Day care centers for the children of essential workers have been opened throughout the COVID-19 crisis. As Governor Phil Murphy announced yesterday, they reopen to other parents on June 15. Within the next few weeks, non-contact sports activities and youth day camps also may open up. What does all this mean? What about pools?

Commissioner of the Department of Children ...

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TRENTON, NJ - Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, joining Governor Phil Murphy at his daily press briefing Friday, introduced the launch of a temporary rental assistance program. The $100 million program, Murphy said, will be funded mainly through the federal CARES Act.

“We know that many of our residents are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the pandemic, due to ...