Dave Vargo News Today

Helen OSheas forthcoming single, With You Still, featuring beloved Jersey Shore songstress Emily Grove, is the Makin Waves Song of the Week.

Heres a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from February 11-17, 2024. Each week we publish about 70 articles, including several original columns and features, along with news releases for events happening throughout the state and nearby areas like Philadelphia and New York City. This weeks top 15 includes articles from 6 counties in New Jersey (Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Morris).

The Makin Waves Artist of the Month for September, Dave Vargo has shows coming up Sept. 14 at The Asbury hotels Salvation Roof Top Bar in Asbury Park; Sept. 15, Colts Neck Inn; Sept. 17, Pattenburg House in Hunterdon County with Brian Molnar & the Slow Rolling Live, Sept. 19 and 26 during his own "2forTuesday" Facebook Live show, and Sept. 30 at Asbury Park Porchfest, which he helped organize.

A popular year-‘round garden center in Allegheny Township is under new ownership. Dave Vargo, former owner of Kiski Garden Center, sold his business Friday for $200,000 to Pat D’Amico of Buffalo Township. Vargo removed a large banner outside his former business that same afternoon as D’Amico looked on and later,

Heres a look at the original feature articles and columns published by New Jersey Stage from July 1 to July 31, 2022. In addition to these stories, we publish between 50-60 press releases during the week. This was a busy month for us with over 80 features or columns published in July.

The latest round of plants added to Pennsylvania’s noxious weeds list reads like a directory of popular landscaping options. Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), callery or Bradford pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) and Ravenna grass (Saccharum ravennae; Tripidium ravennae) have been staples of urban and particularly suburban landscaping for decades. All three

From 8 inches of snow and wind chills in the single digits to 60-degree temperatures in a matter of days, that’s the hairpin turn into spring the weather is making this week. By Wednesday, temperatures will be flirting with 70. “We can thank something called warm advection,” said Jenna Lake,

Two cats are earning their keep in Allegheny Township. Mary-Kate and Ashley are 15-year-old twins living permanently at the Kiski Garden Center. The cats originally were brought to a former New Kensington store, Arnold Feed and Garden, by store manager Linda Ban when they were 6 weeks old. Ban brought

The Butchers Block reopens in Long Branch after a year of renovations, along with 6 other things happening this weekend at the Jersey Shore.

Here’s an alphabetical look at the 12 independent New Jersey artists who I thought made the most waves in 2021. Here’s to makin waves with all of them and you in what hopefully will be a much better year than the past couple!