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Neither snow piles nor COVID can thwart 100th birthday celebration in Phillipsburg (PHOTOS)
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
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Verna Robinson’s family generally likes to gather all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren together to celebrate her birthday, but not this year because of the coronavirus.
It just so happens, though, that this year’s big day on Saturday is a major milestone: triple digits, 100, a century.
So like many families across the Lehigh Valley region and beyond, her loved ones arranged for a socially distanced birthday parade past the lifelong Phillipsburg resident’s home.
Not even the piles of snow lingering from the near-record snowfall that ushered in February could keep the family away, though this year is their first to have to celebrate from a distance.
Phillipsburg council wants to know if meetings were caught up in alleged spying scheme
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic pushing its meetings to Zoom, Phillipsburg Town Council met at the Phillipsburg Housing Authority’s Heckman House.
The authority’s executive director, Paul Rummerfield, now faces charges of official misconduct and related counts after he allegedly installed cameras and microphones to spy on employees.
Council last week voted to have the town’s attorney, Rich Wenner, reach out to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office to see if any of its meetings either public or behind closed doors were caught in the alleged surveillance scheme.
Phillipsburg council unanimous on ‘official disapproval’ of N.J. COVID-19 restrictions
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Seen through the front window, chairs are stacked up on the tables at the closed Empire Hunan Chinese & Japanese restaurant in Teaneck, New Jersey, during the start of the COVID-19 coronavirus/pandemic Wednesday, March 18, 2020.Aristide Economopoulos file photo | NJ Advance Media
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Phillipsburg Town Council this week shook off opposition from residents and voted unanimously to denounce New Jersey COVID-19 mitigation strategies.
The all-Republican council unanimously passed a resolution accusing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy “under the pretense of public safety” of having “deprived New Jersey citizens of the right to pursue safety and happiness; to worship in the manner most agreeable to him or her; and to assemble in the manner of their own choosing . .”