100-year-old veteran receives N.J. medal for his WWII service
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In all of Sidney Finkle’s 100 years, there aren’t many people he’s met that he doesn’t like.
“I met a couple of people with guns I didn’t like,” he said recently, recounting wartime stories from the early 1940s, when Finkle enlisted and served as a Navy Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class during World War II. “Outside that, there wasn’t anybody I didn’t like,” he said. “Everybody’s nice.”
The comments came at a ceremony last month when Finkle was presented with the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal (NJDSM) by Walter Nall, the state’s Acting Deputy Commissioner for Veterans Affairs. The outdoor event happened at Brandywine Living at Pennington where for the last seven years, the Trenton-born and raised veteran has been living with his wife of 72 years, Jean.
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State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli has pushed for greater access to COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.
State officials have taken proactive steps to support New Jersey’s nearly 1.9 million Medicaid members during the pandemic, including a recent push to expand COVID-19 immunization that involves phone calls to almost 260,000 individuals most at risk for infection.
Much of the work which also involved mailings in English and Spanish, ongoing case management and partnerships with medical and social service providers to ensure members have proper care, plus food and other necessities is being done by a handful of health insurance companies that provide Medicaid coverage under contracts with the state Department of Human Services.
Trenton Public Schools reopen doors for first time since March 2020
Posted May 04, 2021
Trenton Public Schools opened its doors to students on Monday for the first time since closing in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged New Jersey.
Under Phase II Hybrid Learning, students still have the option to continue with 100% remote instruction or to attend the hybrid instructional program, which provides students with two days of in-school instruction and three days of remote learning. The rollout of Phase II is being spread out over the next two weeks.
At Hedgepeth-Williams Middle School of the Arts, only ninety-two sixth graders were in the building, according to Principal Adrienne Hill.
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Gov. Phil Murphy, left, and former Gov. Jim McGreevey
New Jersey must come up with new funding out of the state budget to keep from defaulting on a long-term debt obligation that dates to the tenure of former Gov. Jim McGreevey.
Legislation introduced in the Senate last week seeks approval for a supplemental appropriation of up to $30 million to cover the debt payment on a controversial state bond issue that was used to sustain the annual budget nearly two decades ago. The payment is due July 1.
Surcharges levied for certain driving offenses that are collected through the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission are supposed to be the main source of funding for the debt service, but that revenue is coming up short during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services.
21 incredible outdoor N.J. day trips you can take right now
Updated May 07, 2021;
Posted May 02, 2021
Thursday, June 20, 2019. Visitors to Princeton Battlefield State Park find fog rising early in the evening.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Great news, New Jersey: It’s warm outside!
Spring has sprung in the Garden State and summer is around the corner. It’s time to shakeoff the cabin fever of winter, embrace the growing freedom of an increasingly vaccinated world and explore what New Jersey has to offer.
Need a few ideas? Here’s a list of day trips to take in each of New Jersey’s 21 counties. It’s by no means comprehensive but hey, we can’t give all of our favorite places away. Happy adventuring!