Here come the cherry blossoms ... and they are pretty spectacular ...
NEWARK — Spring has arrived and the cherry blossom show is going full tilt in Branch Brook Park. The Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural affairs is running the festival that features a variety of events. People were all over Branch Brook Park Sunday, taking in the sights. The Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival runs through April 24. The park now boasts 5,000 cherry blossom trees, larger than Washington, D.C. The trees bloom in a variety of colors and the cool weather..>> view originalSchool notes from Morris and Sussex counties
7:05 p.m. EDT April 17, 2016Fom left to right are Metro YMCA President and CEO Richard K. Gorab, Fairview Lakes YMCA Camps Associate Executive Director Jennie Griffin, Danny Jacobs, and Metro Y Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Edward Philipp.(Photo: Photo courtesy of YMCA)MORRISTOWNMorristown High School Senior Danny Jacobs of Morris Plains was named the Fairview Lake YMCA Camps’ 2015 Youth of the Year for his devotion to the environment and commitment to sharing his knowledge with ..>> view originalMorgenroth moves to Whippany Park football
Joe Hofmann, Correspondent 7:14 p.m. EDT April 17, 2016Buy PhotoDon Morgenroth has moved on to coach at Whippany Park.(Photo: Jim Wright/Correspondent)Buy PhotoDon Morgenroth lives in Cedar Knolls but never had the opportunity to watch the local high school — Whippany Park — play football because he coached at Montville.This fall, he'll get his chance to watch the Wildcats games — all of them — as the new head football coach.He replaced Todd Callaghan, who went 16-34 in five years a..>> view originalNJ filmmaker salutes her mom, 'The Meddler'
When Lorene Scafaria was a schoolkid in Holmdel, Pizza Hut started giving out free pies for every book report you turned in. So, Scafaria reviewed every book she'd read that year. Then, running out of titles – but still hungry for pizza -- she started writing about books that just sounded like they were real. Completely made them up – title, author, plot – and then made up her reviews, too. It was the first time she'd ever been paid for writing fiction. She realized she liked it. Scafaria, 37,..>> view originalTurnpike backed up Sunday after 2 motorcycles crash
LINDEN —€” Sunday afternoon and evening traffic was backed up on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 12, after a crash involving two motorcycles and a third vehicle, police said. The crash occurred on the outer roadway at 4:10 p.m., at milepost 98.5 in Linden, said Trooper Lawrence Peele, a spokesman for the State Police. The left and center lanes were shut and only the far-right lane was open as of about 6 p.m., Peele said. "Its safe to say that traffic is delayed," Peele added, tho..>> view originalNeed a lift? Fourth N.J. town to offer residents free Uber rides
Old Bridge has become the latest municipality to team up with Uber to reduce DUI-related incidents.(Getty Images) OLD BRIDGE — The township has become the next in just a handful of municipalities to partner with Uber in offering residents free rides home as part of an initiative that studies show can reduce DUI-related arrests and fatalities, Uber announced in a statement recently. The program, funded solely through private business donors, allows residents to acquire an Uber driver, complete..>> view originalWho made big donations to Menendez legal defense fund?
WASHINGTON — Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker were on opposite sides of the debate over President Barack Obama's Iran deal, but both were among those giving the maximum to U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's legal defense fund during the last three months. Adelson, head of the Las Vegas Sands casino company. and his wife Miriam each contributed $10,000, as did fellow New Jersey Democratic senator Booker through his leadership political action committee. The Adelsons eac..>> view originalLoans forgiven while Camden hopes for baseball's return
FILE – In this Feb. 10, 2009, file photo, Campbell’s Field, home of Camden’s minor league baseball team Riversharks is seen along the Delaware River in Camden, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) A baseball stadium that was a linchpin to the redevelopment of the Camden waterfront will sit mostly empty this season after the minor league team that played in it for 15 years folded, leaving the public on the hook for millions more of the cost to build it. The independent Camden Riversharks stopped play..>> view originalHow Newarkers are celebrating city's 350th birthday
NEWARK — A play about the funeral business. A literary festival featuring books about the history of the Brick City. A ward-wide high school reunion. The three varied events are just a few of those happening in Newark as part of the city's yearlong 350th birthday celebration; and these three are among dozens that were conceptualized and developed by residents. According to the organizers of "Newark Celebration 350," about 56 of the more than 150 events taking place to commemorate the anniversa..>> view originalAirlines are putting on the big squeeze
U.S. airlines are gearing up for a busy summer travel season, which starts next month, and vacationers can expect to be squished on their way to their destination of choice, if, like most, they fly in coach. Illustration/K/ Cassidy/staff artist Airline seating has evolved into a high stakes game of inches in recent years, and as Americans' waistlines have expanded, the seat widths have narrowed, with carriers striving to fit more seats and more passengers onto planes to lift profits. Acc..>> view original
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