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MOUNT HOLLY — The Burlington County Board of Commissioners are touting a 2021 county budget with no tax levy increase despite the expectation revenues will be down. The board unanimously approved the introduction of its proposed $233 million budget at its meeting on March 24. It's the earliest the county budget has been introduced in modern history, officials said. The proposed budget would keep the county tax levy stable at $169.7 million while maintaining county staff and providing funding for its COVID-19 response and other county services and programs. “For over a year the COVID-19 ...

James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews. As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two million Jews [who] have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation.” Yet he nevertheless u...

WESTAMPTON — Among paper, bottles and cans moving along a conveyer belt at the Burlington County Recycling Center workers spotted a backpack. It's not unusual for residents to sometimes toss a trash item into their curbside recycling buckets, so at first sight a backpack did not surprise employees — until it started to move. And then cry. In retrieving the backpack, shocked employees discovered three kittens stuffed inside — all, thankfully, still alive. Quite miraculous, the workers thought, because the apparently abandoned kittens survived quite a journey and more than frigid wea...

How these N.J. counties are bracing for this week’s monster snowstorm Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 15, 2020 County and local officials are bracing for a potentially major snowstorm on Wednesday by making preparations now.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Facebook Share Twitter Share A major snowstorm is on track to hit New Jersey on Wednesday, with a foot of snow predicted to fall across the northern region of the state and as much as 18 inches in some areas. Starting at noon on Wednesday, the following counties are under a winter storm warning from the National Wea...