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Press Releases
By GREG TUFARO
November 30, 2023
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Senator Patrick Diegnan’s legislation establishing a New Jersey Transportation Research Bureau to study the mobility needs of individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, and developmental disabilities was signed into law today. The legislation (S146) is part of a ...
The Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey (ATSNJ) presented Senator Patrick Diegnan with the prestigious National Athletic Trainers’ Association Friends of Athletic Trainers Award for his support of athletic trainers statewide. “I am honored to receive this recognition from the ATSNJ, whose ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Middlesex College’s Center for Justice-Impacted Students (CJIS) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation that will be earmarked for the College’s Justice Scholars Program as well as for programming to support currently incarcerated students by ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - Kick off the holiday season with Middlesex County East Jersey Old Town Village’s annual celebration. Experience music, wagon rides, children’s crafts, and carolers while enjoying refreshments. Later in the afternoon, stick around for storytelling of timeless holiday ...
Moments after he was born, little Hamza Haque began turning blue and the staff at Saint Peter’s University Hospital realized that the newborn’s blood oxygen was below the safe threshold of 90 %. Hamza was quickly hooked up to oxygen to stabilize his levels, but these plummeted whenever the oxygen ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Middlesex County Magnet Schools have won first place in two categories in the 2023 New Jersey School Public Relations Association (NJSPRA) communication awards. The only school district to receive two first-place honors, the Magnet Schools were recognized in the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, Community Health Ambassador Irma Nolasco recently participated in the Johnson & Johnson Foundation-sponsored event, “Stories from the Heart of Health” held during the United Nations General ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - The Ambulatory Surgical Pavilion at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) has been named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2024. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and ...
Spencer Savings Bank, one of New Jersey’s leading community banks, is preparing to open a new financial center in Edison, NJ. The new financial center is anticipated to open in December and will be located at 3900 Park Ave. (Ste. 108). The Edison location is one of 27 full-service Spencer ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ - The 7th Annual RWJBarnabas Health Running with the Devils 5K Run and Walk was hosted on Sunday, October 29th at Essex County’s South Mountain Recreation Complex in West Orange. More than 1,000 runners and walkers participated, as this event supports the commitment of both ...
New and unwrapped toys collected during the Marisa Tufaro Classic will benefit pediatric patients at Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center and children in need who Hands of Hope for the Community serves. A season-opening bowling tournament involving 20 boys and girls high school ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Middlesex County and its Department of Community Services hosted a Behavioral Health Policy Summit, bringing partners together, including Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Medical Society of NJ, the AMA and community leaders to discuss creating health policy ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - On Saturday, December 9, and Sunday, December 10 at 2:00 pm, come to Plays-in-the-Park as they present an exciting new production, Any Dream Will Do, a musical revue and tribute to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, at Stephen J.
Edison – In a remarkable display of determination and scholarly excellence, St. Thomas Aquinas High School students, Nicholas Tonzola III and Marissa Nieves, from the class of 2024, have made headlines by having their groundbreaking research published in the International Youth Neuroscience ...
Nine high schools in the 18th Legislative District have been named to the Advanced Placement (AP) School Honor Roll, earning prestigious recognition from the College Board. The honor roll recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering results for students while broadening access. The ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – As part of an ongoing series of educational events led by Middlesex County Office of the Prosecutor – Newtown, Connecticut Police Chief David Kullgren was invited to present a debrief and key learnings case study from the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. This event ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - – Building on their already exceptional partnership, RWJBarnabas Health, the state’s largest academic health system, and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, are announcing a transformative ...
(Edison, NJ) - Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center announced today that its radiology services now include a new advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that offers high field 3 Tesla MRI machine with state-of-the-art software and patient comfort that will enhance the ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – With the holiday season rapidly approaching, Middlesex County’s food distribution organization, REPLENISH, is collecting donations of food and basic supplies to help the food insecure. REPLENISH collects and distributes food and basic necessities to a network of 150 ...
The Latino Action Network has endorsed Senator Patrick Diegnan and Assemblymen Robert Karabinchak and Sterley Stanley for the upcoming election. The grassroots network is composed of individuals and organizations committed to engaging in collective action at the local, state, and national levels ...
Towns in the 18th Legislative District will receive a combined $3.67 million in New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Municipal Aid Program grants for road improvements. The NJDOT’s program provides funds to municipalities committed to advancing projects that renew aging ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Residents seeking employment who have been impacted, directly or indirectly, by the opioid epidemic now have an opportunity to apply for the Middlesex County Pathways to Recovery program led by the Office of Workforce and Career Development. Applications are now open and can ...
Governor Murphy and the New Jersey Legislature created the Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters (ANCHOR) program to provide property tax relief for eligible homeowners and renters. New Jersey residents who meet program criteria can receive up to $1,750 in property tax ...
One of New Jersey’s largest health care unions has endorsed Senator Patrick Diegnan and Assemblymembers Robert Karabinchak and Sterley Stanley for the upcoming election. JNESO District Council 1, IUOE-AFL-CIO represents 5,000 nurses and technicians in facilities across New Jersey and ...
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) New Jersey State Legislative Board has endorsed Senator Patrick Diegnan for the upcoming election. Approximately 900 members of the Brotherhood live and work in New Jersey, playing a critical role in seamlessly transporting goods and ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - In 1818, 137 African American souls’ freedom was stolen when they were kidnapped by the Van Wickle Slave Ring and sent from East Brunswick to permanent slavery in the Deep South. Join Kristal C. Langford to learn about the resilience and resistance demonstrated by freed and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Naveena Yanamala, MS, PhD, has been appointed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Patient Engagement Advisory Committee (PEAC). Dr. Yanamala, who is Director of the Center of Innovation at Robert Wood Johnson ...
The Rutgers American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) has endorsed Senator Patrick Diegnan for the upcoming election. Rutgers AAUP-AFT represents more than 6,000 faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors at Rutgers’ three ...
Middlesex College has been awarded a $3 million, five-year Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will broaden the array of services the College provides for students, heighten Middlesex College’s ability to attract and retain Hispanic and low-income students and allow the College ...
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jersey (NAMI NJ) held a successful statewide 5K walk at the Middlesex College on Saturday, October 14, 2023. More than 800 mental health advocates and supporters from 67 teams showed up at the College Center building on the rainy morning with ...
