NorthJersey.com
Local business owners said they are leaving it up to customers whether they wear face masks, a day after the CDC released new mask guidelines due to the fast spread of the delta variant of COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines recommended that vaccinated and unvaccinated people should wear masks in schools and in public indoor spaces in hot-spot counties. Murphy did not address the school mask guideline, but last month he left that decision up to local districts.
Murphy urged residents to be judicious when heading into crowded indoor spaces, situations involving close contact with those unvaccinated or where the vaccine status of others is unknown places such as restaurants, stores and theaters across North Jersey.
New Jersey Herald
HACKETTSTOWN As Kayla Salgado headed toward the Hackettstown Medical Center parking lot following her final chemotherapy session Wednesday morning, she assumed she and her mother, Katie, would simply be getting in the car and driving home to rest.
That belief disappeared when she encountered more than two dozen cheering family members, friends and hospital staff as Kool & the Gang s Celebration fittingly played in the background.
Salgado, 20, soon got over the initial shock and had time to embrace her mother, who had organized the surprise ceremony, and her father, Anthony. She then triumphantly rang a bell to signify the end of her seven-month cancer treatment, garnering another round of applause from the gathered crowd.