Business and municipal leaders along the shore expect a strong season this year, even as pandemic uncertainty persists.

The Newark-based arts center hopes the move will help start its rebound. The venue plans to enforce mask requirements, as well as offer touchless services for check-in and ramped up sanitization efforts.

The family-owned and operated creamery is now open at Kingsbridge Center, which provides a central location, accessibility and proximity to local schools and sports fields making it an ideal place to serve the surrounding community.

Terry Glebocki is the first female president of the association. She has three decades of financial management experience, including serving as chief financial officer of Ocean Casino Resort and Tropicana Entertainment Inc.

The hot meal program was made possible by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's $1 million grant to HealthBarn USA, which helped create the Feed the Frontlines program.

Under new restrictions, certain guests will be barred from one-night reservations across the country during the summer holiday. Certain local and last-minute bookings will also be prohibited, and reservations will be blocked.

Gross profits for the state’s nine casinos were nearly $594 million in 2019, before dropping to $117 million in 2020, according to data released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

New Jersey Food Council President and CEO Linda Doherty on what a year of change and investment for an essential industry looks like.

There are 39,000 hair stylists in New Jersey. That’s a number bigger than the populations of many Hunterdon or Gloucester County towns, and more than half the size of Salem County. But these 39,000 people, many of them women and people of color, had no advocate, no administration, nobody to lobby for and speak up for them, until Christine Modica created the New Jersey Salon and Spa Alliance.

The new bill offers assistance to establishments with up to 50 employees. “These are among the places that have been hardest hit by the pandemic,” Gov. Phil Murphy said. “Margins for our restaurants, if they’re positive at all, remain razor-thin.”

The university's team collected 1,000 gallons of sap from about 90 trees this winter, which was boiled down to produce maple syrup.

"Our new name reflects our expanding regional reach and captures the relentless determination, unlimited energy, and incredible diversity of the communities we represent," Club Chair and First Lady Tammy Murphy said.