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City officials announced an emergency resurfacing project on Tuesday to repave the roughest portions of 13 city-owned streets before year's end.
Through a county contract, the city has hired Asphalt Pavement Solutions, of Delanco, to handle the repaving work. The city expects to spend $500,000 to finish each of the jobs by Dec. 31.
Interim Mayor Vic Carstarphen announced the repaving program at a press event on Thurman Street in the Liberty Park section. Part of Thurman Street is to be repaved between 9th and 10th streets.
And not every center that's actually open right now is one that parents feel comfortable putting their kids in, Rep. Donald Norcross notes. "People who are not living it presently don't really have a gut-level feeling of what it's like to not have a place to put your child that's affordable, that is reliable, that is safe, nurturing. Your child is everything and that has to work in order for our economy to work," he said.
NJ Monitor. By Nikita Biryukov.
In 2014, New Jersey voters backed a constitutional amendment to allow judges to order certain criminal suspects be detained without bail and pushed the courts away from holding minor offenders awaiting trial.
Since that measure went into effect in 2017, the number of individuals imprisoned on bail of $2,500 or less while awaiting trial fell to just 14 last year, the New Jersey Judiciary announced Friday. A study conducted in 2012 put the number at more than 1,500, fully 12% of the state's prison population.
NJ.com. By Jonathan Salant.
A typical New Jersey family of four with one child and one infant in full-time day care would save an estimated $27,000 a year on child care costs under President Joe Biden's proposed spending bill.
That's more than the same family would receive in all but three states, according to the study by the House Education and Labor Committee.
CAMDEN, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that the Camden County Historical Society (CCHS) has been awarded a $150,000 Battlefield Interpretation Grant by the National Park Service (NPS). This new grant program funds projects that use technology to bring the stories of sites of armed conflict alive for modern audiences.
GLASSBORO, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that Acenda Integrated Health, located in Glassboro, will receive $4,000,000 in federal funding over two years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Grant.
Patch. By Anthony Bellano
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded a total of $15,835,231 in Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program grants to expand affordable housing options for South Jersey seniors. The funding will provide low-income elderly residents with options that allow them to live independently in an environment that provides support activities such as cleaning, cooking, transportation, and health-related services.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement regarding the House of Representatives vote on the Women's Health Protection Act, which defends a woman's right to choose:
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Chair of the Tactical Air and Land Forces (TAL) Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22), which authorizes funding for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy: