N.J. cities, towns are acting quickly to ban weed businesses by August deadline
Updated May 19, 2021;
As cities and towns around New Jersey continue to roll out ordinances that would prevent cannabis business from opening within their borders, some are taking the cautious route: banning everything until they see how it works in other cities and towns and thinking they might revisit down the road.
Under the marijuana legalization law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy, cities and towns have the power to control both medical and legal weed businesses in their towns. They can also levy fines on those who use cannabis in public, and some Jersey Shore towns have already taken those steps. But they cannot stop people from using cannabis on private property or having it delivered to them.
Parents rally for return to in-person learning as group sues N.J. district
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
Parents and students of the Maplewood School district hold a rally outside of Maplewood Town Hall on Monday to press local officials to put kids back in the classroom.George McNish | For NJ Advance Media
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Ten-year-old Peter Kaplan took the microphone and fired up the crowd of more than 100 fellow students and their parents from the South Orange-Maplewood School District.
“We’ve got to keep on going, because if we don’t now we’re going to lose,” said Peter, a 5th grader at Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood, addressing the crowd from the steps of the town’s municipal building at dinnertime on Monday. “And we can’t accept the defeat from the district, who are just bullying us the whole way, and that’s just not right.”