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Community Bulletin Board: the Sentinel (for Jan. 13) Volunteer vaccinators may be needed in Middlesex County and at other vaccination sites. Licensed nurses, doctors and medical professionals who are willing to volunteer should email their name, address, phone number and license information to Lt. Jangols of the Monroe Township Police Department at sjangols@monroetwppolice.org   Daya Sharma will lead a meditative workshop at 7 p.m. Jan. 13. Jim Rose, retired executive with Johnson & Johnson, ...

Now on to 2021. Gov. Phil Murphy, every state legislative seat and countless mayors and council people will be on the ballot this year. Here are some elections to watch: NJ governor The marquee race will be at the top of the ticket, with Gov. Phil Murphy seeking a second term against a GOP challenger, likely former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli. Murphys poll numbers were middling in 2019, but they soared when the coronavirus pandemic led to daily television appearances for the Democratic gover...

New Jersey residents began to sign up to get their COVID-19 vaccinations over the weekend, except they aren’t supposed to be able to do that unless they’re...

When COVID-19 swept into North Jersey 10 months ago, it struck the Hawthorne Police Department particularly hard. Almost a third of the squads 34 officers fell ill almost at once, sending then-Chief Richard McAuliffe into a mad scramble to stagger schedules, change shifts and keep his officers away from each other.  That was the worst of it — current Chief James Knepper said only a few officers have caught the virus since. But the spring disaster made an imprint. And now that the vaccin...

Credit: (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times via AP, Pool) Health care workers prepare to give COVID-19 vaccinations at the Morris County vaccination site in Rockaway, Friday, Jan. 8. As New Jersey begins the fifth week of its massive COVID-19 vaccine program, state officials have blamed shipping conundrums, workforce limitations and reporting delays for what has seemed to be the slow pace of the initial rollout. The federal government is responsible for shipping the coronavirus vaccines to provi...

Some cried tears of relief. Some murmured prayers of thanks for fallen co-workers and friends. Some avoided looking at the needle about to jab their arms, while others thanked the person vaccinating them. More than 150,000 New Jersey health care workers have received their first doses of the COVID vaccine and are starting their booster shots. For hospitals, the first New Jersey institutions to inject the COVID vaccine into the arms of their employees, the rollout has been an em...

Covid-19 R-Factor and Weak Links in Nigeria Source: Oseloka H. Obaze Listen to article A chain is as strong as its weakest link. That cliché underlines certain assumptions, oftentimes, dangerous and egregious. As a public figure and member of the Nigeria’s attentive public, I took some measures, personal and otherwise, to protect my family, staff and myself from Covid-19. I shut my office well before FGN announced a nationwide lockdown in 2020. Thereafter, my office had zero tolerance for c...

Toni Yates has more on how members of the community are stepping up to help small businesses. Twenty students from the Fanny M. Hillers School in Hackensack picked up their desks on Saturday from Habitat Bergen Restore. It costs approximately 35 dollars to build each desk. You can donate to the effort at Habitat Bergen.

25 N.J. restaurants we can’t afford to lose to COVID Updated Jan 11, 2021; Posted Jan 10, 2021 Baguette Delite (top left), Star Tavern (top center), The Pub (top right), Hobbys Delicatessen (bottom left), Spiritos (bottom center) and White House Subs (bottom right), among the 25 restaurants New Jersey cannot afford to lose. (Pub photo by Avi Steinhardt, Hobbys photo by Ed Murray, White House Subs photo by Peter Genovese. All other photos by Jeremy Schneider) Facebook Share Twitter Share It�...

9 Jan 2021 A great grandmother got the surprise of a lifetime during a Zoom call in December with loved ones to celebrate her 90th birthday. When Marion Thomas logged into the call, she was surprised with a long-awaited degree from Georgian Court University, the school said in a news release: In 1998, Mrs. Thomas and her husband, John, were living in Toms River, New Jersey, where they had retired after living in Bergen County. And after a lifetime of encouraging her 6 children and 18 grandchi...