“This is great news for our city,” Mayor Pete Byron said of the $3.2 million. “Despite our maintenance efforts over the past 100 years, much of the Boardwalk’s understructure and decking has been ravaged by time and nature, making total reconstruction ... necessary. This award will certainly help us achieve that goal.”

LLP Express was a regional pick – named among 40 others across the country – for the national company's Entrepreneur of the Year award, recognizing independent service providers for their business excellence in 2021 and 2022.

As state budget hearings continued May 3 in the Senate with the Department of Higher Education, among others, bipartisan concerns emerged about sustainable funding for projects in the spending plan, like one that allows a lower tuition rate for in-state, qualifying public students in their third and fourth years.

The move is the latest in a proxy battle that pits George Norcross III against the bank's current CEO, Vernon Hill.

Chief of Business Operations Gary Merrill will succeed Brian Carolan, who is resigning from his position, effective July 1.

Celebrating 85 years in business, the accounting and advisory firm moved one of its practice groups from another Essex County location to the main office.

Since its inception in the late 1990s, the program that allows state technology and life sciences companies to sell their net operating losses and unused R&D tax credits has distributed over $1.126 billion to more than 570 such entities.

The move from the largest privately held, vertically integrated provider of solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services in the greater New York City and New Jersey area expands its capabilities.

The deal was unveiled in December 2021, the same day that the Fair Lawn-based financial institution announced completing its addition of Monmouth County's oldest savings institution, Freehold Bank.

According to the firm, members of its Institutional Properties team have helped Stamford, Conn.-based OneWall Communities offload nearly 500 units in the Essex County municipality and neighboring Newark over the past four months to the tune of $83 million.

The Minuteman Press franchise in Westfield has been operated by Jim Mooney and his son, Seamus, since July 2018.

The university doled out prizes to participants in the annual Business Plan Competition, featuring alumni, current undergraduates, and MBA students.