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New Jersey Herald LAFAYETTE — Lafayette school board members defended their plan to trim the hours of the district's school psychologist at a special meeting Tuesday, saying it has plans for new staff training that will make mental-health help even more accessible for students.  The board's suggestion is to implement professional development training for all staff members to help students struggling with mental health. Many teachers and parents, meanwhile, feel the board should use the funding to restore the recently demoted school psychologist to a full-time role. The board voted ...

Today a sty for stately suburbs, Sussex County was once a bastion for swine.  Roughly 30,000 pigs – four for every three people – lived in the county in 1850, U.S. Census records show. Sussex County farmers that year claimed to have shepherded 8,300 sheep, harvested 21,000 pounds of beeswax and produced 1.8 million pounds of butter on 245,000 acres of farmland.  While milk cows and the grain to feed them once reigned supreme, Sussex County is now home to a wide variety of farming — from llamas and rabbits to sweet potatoes and sunflower seeds. The total farmed acres nonethel...

The grants will go to help fund several ecosystem and water quality projects in the Paulins Kill and Pequest River watersheds.