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While the fight continues for districts losing millions in state aid to get that money back from the state, a trio of New Jersey Legislators have come up with a plan to prevent any cuts, at least for the 2021-22 school year. It would help districts like Toms River, who is set to lose $8.1 million for the next school year, as well as districts including Brick, Jackson and Freehold Regional. Get our free mobile app New Jersey State Senator Steve Oroho as well as Assemblymen Hal Wirths and Parker Space (all from the 24th District representing parts of Sussex, Warren and Morris Counties) have in...

TRENTON — With early voting now the law, on top of earlier initiatives such as online voter registration and eligibility for people on probation or parole, one of the next election changes on reformers’ priority list would prevent police officers from being stationed within 100 feet of polling places and ballot drop boxes. The idea’s supporters say it’s necessary to guard against voter suppression in places their presence makes people uncomfortable. But critics say the idea is misguided and anti-police. Assemblyman Hal Wirths, R-Sussex, said the prospect of exposing police officers to...

Bad connection drives home message in rural Warren Co.: Use COVID relief to improve broadband Updated Mar 17, 2021; Posted Mar 17, 2021 An apparent bad connection freezes Congressman Josh Gottheimer on the screen in this Facebook screenshot of a live-streamed news conference on March 5, 2021, from Hope Township, where he and officials from Warren and Sussex counties called for use of COVID-19 relief funds to improve broadband connections in underserved areas like this corner of northwest New Jersey.Facebook screenshot | lehighvalleylive.com staff Facebook Share A bipartisan call for better ...

It wasn't known at the time, but state data shows around 500 people who later tested COVID+ already had symptoms by March 4, 2020. Many more were never tested.

Trenton Bureau When Anthony Williams called an automated phone line to get his unemployment benefits in December, the robotic voice on the other side skipped part of a question. Williams, 64, said he assumed the system would ask the question again, but it didn't, and instead he got a message that has frustrated thousands of people left without work during the coronavirus pandemic: He had to speak to a representative. Getting someone on the phone took nearly a month, and six weeks later, Williams still hasn't seen his money. "I am so aggravated and frustrated," the Neptune man said. "Not bec...