Multiple people were killed Friday night in a crash on the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township, police said.
Egg Harbor Police Captain Cherie Burgan told NJ Advance Media she did not have other details about the crash as of 10:40 p.m.
TRENTON – The New Jersey Division of Group Affairs (DCA) introduced the award of practically $1 million in Most important Avenue New Jersey Transformation Grants to Most important Avenue New Jersey (MSNJ) district organizations throughout New Jersey. The grants are aimed toward bettering the looks, high quality of life, and native commerce inside MSNJ districts.
“As a part of its mission, DCA has prioritized strengthening conventional downtowns on the coronary heart of our communities via packages akin to Most important Avenue New Jersey,” mentioned Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver, who serves as DCA Commissioner. “In the present day’s announcement marks the fourth time in as a few years that DCA has awarded funding to Most important Avenue New Jersey districts. This demonstrates that we aren’t paying lip service to downtown revitalization, however offering precise cash to the trigger.”
For the primary 29 years of its historical past, the MSNJ Program offered technical help and coaching, however by no means monetary help. Nonetheless, since 2019, this system has distributed greater than $4.3 million in grants – together with the funding introduced at this time – to MSNJ district organizations.
“The grant {dollars} DCA has given out in recent times have confirmed to be important to serving to Most important Avenue districts stand up to the pandemic and place themselves to search out success within the altering industrial and retail market,” mentioned Sean Thompson, director of the Division of Native Planning Providers, which administers the MSNJ Program. “This most up-to-date spherical of grant funding will assist our Most important Avenue districts take the transformation methods they’ve developed on paper and make them right into a tangible actuality.”
The three varieties of initiatives that had been eligible for Transformation Grant funding are as follows:
The MSNJ Program helps municipalities enhance the economic system, look, and picture of their central enterprise districts via the group of native residents and sources. Municipalities should apply and be chosen to hitch the MSNJ Program, which was established in 1989. These designated communities obtain technical assist and coaching to help in restoring their important streets as facilities of financial and social exercise.
An outline of the grant recipients and initiatives are listed beneath:
2022 Most important Avenue New Jersey Transformation Grant Recipients
Most important Avenue District Group | County | Venture | Quantity |
Bloomfield Middle Alliance Inc. | Essex | Bloomfield Middle Bodily Enchancment Grant Initiative: Buy branded trash receptacles, banners, and hanging planters; revamp the façade enchancment program to supply larger grants with a decrease match requirement; create a vacant window initiative; set up a downtown mural; and draft a strategic plan. | $75,000 |
Boonton Most important Avenue Inc. | Morris | Public Out of doors Seating Plaza: Rework the realm in entrance of Boonton’s public library, which is situated in the course of the downtown district, right into a public plaza to supply a everlasting out of doors gathering house and complement the library’s newly constructed amphitheater. | $73,520 |
Downtown Bernardsville | Somerset | First Yr Most important Avenue Program Launch: Set up an enchancment district, in addition to 4 committees every with their very own initiatives primarily based on survey knowledge that recognized household eating, household leisure, and mountain climbing and nature trails as key transformational methods. | $75,000 |
Downtown Westfield Company | Union | Revitalizing the Rialto Plaza and Walkway: Rework the plaza and alley surrounding the Rialto Theatre with lighting, artwork, a motorbike oasis, and public security options to enrich the arts-focused nonprofit that lately purchased the theater. | $75,000 |
Honest Garden Financial Improvement Company | Essex | Honest Garden EDC Most important Avenue Program: Rehabilitate the façades of three enterprise properties, set up a web site to showcase the enterprise district’s retailers and companies, and fund operational and advertising and marketing prices. | $75,000 |
Most important Avenue Highland Park | Middlesex | Downtown Parklet Venture: Present everlasting out of doors eating areas by closing off parts of the facet streets off of Highland Park’s important road. A neighborhood carpenter will assemble the parklet buildings with neighborhood assistance on a devoted “construct day.” | $22,530 |
Most important Avenue Mount Holly | Burlington | Hold Urgent Ahead: Enhance the façades of 17 enterprise properties on Excessive Avenue, set up wayfinding signage within the enterprise district, and rent advertising and marketing professionals to advertise the district to the neighborhood and close by Maguire Dix and Lakehurst army base. | $75,000 |
Most important Avenue Woodbury Inc. | Gloucester | Charlie Brown’s Recent Grille: Full the outside renovation of the Charlie Brown’s Recent Grille constructing, which dates again to 1737, so the restaurant can reopen and return to being an anchor within the enterprise district. | $103,126 |
Metuchen Downtown Alliance | Middlesex | Attaining Better Success for Companies in Metuchen: Enhance the façades of two downtown companies; set up everlasting out of doors seating, artwork, and plantings within the alley connecting New Avenue parking with Most important Avenue; and rent a guide to replace the strategic plan for the following 5 years. | $75,000 |
Montclair Middle for Enterprise Enchancment District | Essex | Montclair Middle District Enhancements: Set up a Letrapole banner system, create a web site for stakeholders to take part within the banner program, buy 14 hanging planter baskets, and associate with native teams to develop 3-4 out of doors reveals within the Wellmont Arts Plaza. | $75,000 |
South Orange Village Middle Alliance | Essex | Village Plaza Triangle Rehab: Set up artwork, pedestrian lighting, out of doors seating/eating, landscaping, and leisure options for households within the Village Plaza Triangle to create an energetic neighborhood house that matches the remainder of South Orange’s downtown district. | $66,500 |
Springfield Avenue Partnership in Maplewood | Essex | Springfield Avenue MSNJ: Fund a one-time subsidy for MSNJ district wage, arrange MSNJ committees to execute the work plan, develop a façade grant program, and make streetscape enhancements akin to banners, signage, and vacation decorations. | $75,000 |
Summit Downtown Inc. | Union | Placemaking via Public Artwork and Pedestrian Plaza: Conduct a feasibility research for the closure of a piece of Maple Avenue right into a pedestrian plaza, set up a sculpture in certainly one of Springfield Avenue’s pocket parks, and paint a mural close to Summit Diner alongside Union Place the place everlasting seating exists. | $46,500 |
Vineland Downtown Enchancment District Administration Corp. | Cumberland | Operation Facelift: Prolong the façade enchancment program to six to 12 new enterprise properties within the downtown enterprise district. | $75,000 |
Complete | $987,176 |
Extra details about the MSNJ Program will be discovered at https://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/lps/msnj.html.
The Division of Native Planning Providers works with communities to realize native land use and planning objectives. As a part of DCA’s dedication to supply technical help to municipalities, the Division’s skilled planning workers gives complete planning companies at no-cost to native governments.
DCA affords a variety of packages and companies, together with native authorities administration and finance, reasonably priced housing manufacturing, hearth security, constructing security, neighborhood planning and improvement, and catastrophe restoration and mitigation.
For extra details about DCA, go to https://nj.gov/dca/ or comply with the Division on social media:
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There are locations throughout New Jersey that are the epitome of great history with landmarks that shaped the fabric of this country. New Jersey is also rich in culture, diversity and a less known but significant art scene.
Families are now looking more closely into choices that are rich in culture but not a burden on the budget. If you live in New Jersey your family time, date time or getaway time should be enjoying these offerings.
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The people at AirportParkingReservations.com compiled a ranking of the best places to go here in New Jersey for culture, art, and history. The data they collected was based on the number of museums, art galleries, landmarks, and libraries in each city in New Jersey. A ranking was assigned based on the number of culture destinations in each location.
Coming in at number 5 was Elizabeth, NJ with 2 museums, 1 art gallery, 6 libraries, and 1 landmark. Elizabeth drew a ranking of 20.6.
Coming in at number 4 was Camden with a ranking slightly over 23.
Trenton at number 3 had 7 museums but no art galleries and 3 landmarks which gave them a ranking of 37.5.
Number 2 Newark boasted 6 museums, 6 art galleries, a whopping 17 libraries and 6 landmarks. That impressive stat garnered Newark a culture ranking of 64.6.
Coming in with a ranking of 89.7, the number one destination for art galleries, libraries, landmarks, and museums is Jersey City! They have it all. With 5 Museums, 10 art galleries, 15 libraries and 8 landmarks
There are cost-efficient cultural destinations available throughout New Jersey. Take advantage of what we have here in New Jersey.
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The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5 weekend host Big Joe Henry. Any opinions expressed are Big Joe’s own.
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Multiple people were killed Friday night in a crash on the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township, police said.
Egg Harbor Police Captain Cherie Burgan told NJ Advance Media she did not have other details about the crash as of 10:40 p.m.
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Attorney Scott Salmon argues New Jersey’s Sore Loser Law bars presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on the ballot as a third-party candidate. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
A judge is expected to decide Monday whether independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be on the November ballot in New Jersey.
Kennedy’s push to get on the ballot has been challenged by attorney Scott Salmon, who said New Jersey’s Sore Loser Law bars candidates like Kennedy from running as an independent in November after trying and failing to secure a major party’s nomination. Kennedy had initially said he would challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president before launching his indepedent bid.
Under questioning by Mercer County Judge Robert Lougy, Salmon conceded that Kennedy didn’t submit paperwork to seek the Democratic Party nomination in New Jersey, but he still took “concrete steps” to win the party’s nod, raising money and holding events to get support from Democrats before launching his third-party bid for the White House.
“There’s a difference between words and deeds,” Salmon told the judge. “And if someone is just saying, ‘I’m going to run for president,’ and then they don’t do anything about it, that there’s a distinct difference between that and someone who is actively raising money and spending money.”
Donald F. Burke, attorney for Kennedy, argued that Salmon’s case should not have been filed in state Superior Court, saying that venue is reserved for Kennedy’s presidential rivals. Voters like Salmon are supposed to take their complaints to the New Jersey secretary of state, he said.
Burke has argued that if Kennedy is dropped from the ballot, the winners would be the Democratic and Republican parties, not voters.
“Major political parties would love Salmon to win because what that would do is make a choice of their candidates and no one else,” he said.
New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way is a defendant in the case. Adam Marshall, attorney for the state, said Friday that if Salmon had filed an objection to Kennedy’s candidacy with the secretary of state instead of with the courts, there likely would already have been a hearing at the Office of Administrative Law and a decision by a judge, and the secretary of state could have responded to those findings, Marshall said.
Salmon maintained he filed in the correct venue because he isn’t challenging Kennedy’s petitions to get on the ballot. He added that taking this matter to the Office of Administrative Law now could delay it further and “limit the rights of myself as well as Mr. Kennedy.”
Way, who is also lieutenant governor, has until Aug. 9 to formally certify which presidential candidates will be on New Jersey’s ballot. Lougy said he understands the urgency of ruling on election matters quickly.
Petitions of electors for president and vice president are due to Way’s office on the 99th day before the general election — that would be Monday, July 29 — and filing objections are due four days after that, on August 2, Marshall noted.
Salmon filed his lawsuit in June. He helped get rapper Ye booted from New Jersey’s ballot in 2020.
While Kennedy’s attorneys fight this case in New Jersey and other states, they scored a win in Nebraska. Kennedy secured enough signatures to appear as a nonpartisan candidate on the ballot in that state despite an objection from its Democratic Party, the state’s secretary of state announced Friday.
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