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Friday: Plainfield COVID-19 Update and Testing Opportunities
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Gov. Murphy, Health Officials Under Fire for Putting Smokers on COVID-19 ...
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Smokers Deemed Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine in Stage 1B Rollout
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Plainfield Students Can Apply for 2021 Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship
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Audit Overview, Budget Recommendations for Plainfield Public School District ...
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Murphy Announces NJ Residents Over Age 65 Can Get COVID Vaccine Starting on ...
By JOHN MOONEY AND TAPINTO BELMAR/LAKE COMO STAFF
January 15, 2021TRENTON, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy and state health officials are taking heat for placing smokers on the high-priority list for the coronavirus vaccine.
On January 13, Murphy announced that vaccine would now be available to all residents age 65 and older, and people with health-compromising conditions, including cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ...
TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Phil Murphy and the NJ Department of Health are taking heat for putting smokers in the 1B category for people registering to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
On Wednesday, the governor announced that all residents over age 65, not just those in long-term care facilities, would be the next in line to get the vaccine, along with people who have conditions that ...
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) received a positive rapid antigen test result for COVID-19 on Monday, according to a press release from her office. She believes she was exposed during protective isolation in the U.S. Capitol building as a result of insurrectionist riots on Jan. 6. As reported by multiple news outlets, a number of members within the space ignored instructions to wear ...
By JENNIFER POPPER
January 15, 2021PLAINFIELD, NJ — A grim milestone has been reached. The number of worldwide fatalities attributed to the coronavirus surpassed 2 million on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University, while the number in the U.S. approaches four hundred thousand.
A statement from the mayor's office on Friday notes there have been 4,546 positive cases of COVID-19 reported in Plainfield over the ...
NEW JERSEY - Looking to answer questions and seeing a "bright light" at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, New Jersey healthcare leaders spoke about how they've dealt with the pandemic while offering hope for the future, at a virtual event held by TAPinto on Thursday evening.
The first-ever TAPinto signature virtual event on Jan. 14 featured five health care experts, ...
TRENTON, NJ -- Individuals ages 65 years and older and those between the ages of 16-64 with medical conditions (defined by the CDC) that increase the risk of severe illness from the virus are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination beginning Thursday, Jan. 14, according to Gov. Phil Murphy, who shared the news at his COVID-19 press briefing on Wednesday. The governor also announced ...
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By STEVEN RODAS
January 11, 2021NEW JERSEY — The threat of Trenton protests on Jan. 17 looms, following a massive insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. last week.
Gov. Phil Murphy and Colonel Pat Callahan, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, said Monday that NJ authorities are prepared and on high alert.
“We need to bat 1,000 every day. To the governor's point [we] will be ...
NEW JERSEY -- Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered that all U.S. and New Jersey flags be flown at half-staff on Monday, Jan 11, 2021, in honor of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick of South River, who died following injuries sustained while defending the U.S. Capitol when it was under siege on Jan. 6.
In a statement, Murphy said:
“United States Capitol Police Officer ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Police are investigating a shooting on Saturday night that left a man and woman with non-life-threatening wounds.
Police are investigating an aggravated assault that occurred Jan. 2 at about 11 p.m. near the area of Remsen Avenue and Hope Manor Drive, according to Capt. J.T. Miller of the New Brunswick Police Department.
A 39-year-old woman from Plainfield and a ...
By TAPINTO STAFF
January 15, 2021SCRANTON, PA — Local residents were among more than 1,800 students named to The University of Scranton's Dean's List for the 2020 fall semester. The Dean's List recognizes students for academic excellence. A student must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better with a minimum number of credit hours during the semester to make the Dean's List.
The students are Gabriel ...
MANCHESTER, NH -- Derrick Grant of Plainfield has been named to Southern New Hampshire University's fall 2020 President's List. Eligibility for the President's List requires that a student accumulate an academic grade point average (GPA) of 3.7-4.0 and earn 12 credits for the semester.
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit institution with an 88-year ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Adele DeLeeuw was a prominent Plainfield resident, and a patron of the arts. She had established a scholarship fund to assist students in need in the Plainfield area for their pursuit of post-secondary education. Applications for high school seniors wishing to apply for the 2020 Adele DeLeeuw Scholarship are now available, and are available in school guidance ...
By MAYOR COLLEEN MAHR
January 15, 2021FANWOOD, NJ -- Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr and her family are among the 37 new cases of COVID-19 in Fanwood reported by the Westfield Regional Board of Health this week, bringing the borough's total positive cases to 360 since the pandemic began. The group is predominantly middle-aged closely split by gender.
The mayor informed residents in her weekly email newsletter on ...
By CATHY GOETZ
January 3, 2021TRENTON, NJ — After a forced time-out of nearly one month, indoor sports in New Jersey returned this weekend, clearing the way for the start of the high school sports winter season.
Since Gov. Phil Murphy did not extend his December 5 ban placed on organized indoor sports — practices and competitions for youths and adults — these activities resumed on January 2 but with ...
By ROHIT ARORA
January 13, 2021NEW JERSEY -- The newly issued guidelines on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lending overseen by the SBA and the U.S. Treasury Department will better target New Jersey's small businesses, especially those owned by minorities or located in low income areas.
The Economic Aid Act makes it possible for hard-hit businesses to get second loans from the PPP lending ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- Governor Phil Murphy signed the landmark New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 into law on Thursday at Hamilton's Carella's Chocolate's and Gifts, a local family business for more than 80 years. The law provides economic support for small businesses, while propelling New Jersey’s economic recovery and growth for much of the next ...
NEWARK, NJ — Flanked by the CEO and President of University Hospital, New Jersey’s Department of Health commissioner and Gov. Phil Murphy, nurse Martiza Beniquez remarked excitedly that she was ready to go.
Beniquez, 56, became the first person in New Jersey to receive the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in mid-December. On Monday, she received her final dose ...
By JENNIFER POPPER
January 3, 2021PLAINFIELD, NJ — Weekday food distribution will resume on January 4 at public schools in Plainfield. The meals are available for those residents 18-years-old and younger, and can be picked up by a parent or guardian.
Evening hours will be available on Mondays and Thursdays, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for those who are unable to come during the day. A multiple days worth of meals will be ...
By JENNIFER POPPER
January 3, 2021PLAINFIELD, NJ — Weekday food distribution will resume on January 4 at public schools in Plainfield. The meals are available for those residents 18-years-old and younger, and can be picked up by a parent or guardian.
Evening hours will be available on Mondays and Thursdays, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for those who are unable to come during the day. A multiple days worth of meals will be ...
By JENNIFER POPPER
January 10, 2021PLAINFIELD, NJ — Organized by the Animal Initiative Committee, a group of concerned residents gathered at the entrance to Cedar Brook Park Sunday to sign a petition and protest a deer hunt that is currently underway in Plainfield.
In 2018, the last time a hunt was conducted at the Cushing Road Retention Basis, hunters took ten deer.
Then, at a council meeting in September 2019, ...
By JENNIFER POPPER
January 6, 2021PLAINFIELD, NJ — Applicant Centurion Plainfield 1222 South Avenue, LLC will come before Plainfield's Planning Board seeking preliminary and final site plan review for property where the now closed Fig Tree Market sits. Variance and waiver relief is also being sought.
According to a published legal notice, the Applicant is proposing to build a four-story mixed-use building composed of ...