NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–It's a big week for the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, a stewardship group that looks after the Raritan River and its many tributaries.
On Monday March 9, from 1:30-3:30PM, the organization invites members of the public to a "special presentation" of water quality data in the public meeting room of the New Brunswick Elks Lodge, located at 40 Livingston Avenue.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders may have violated the Open Public Meetings Act when they held an unusually short and possibly unlawful conference meeting March 2.
During the seven-minute meeting, the only actual piece of business discussed was a very quick presentation about a questionable open space acquisition.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—With the roll-out of the controversial PARCC standardized testing earlier this week, New Brunswick, along with much of New Jersey, saw a relatively uneventful introduction to the test.
PARCC, short for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, is a multi-state coalition attempting to develop a new form of standardized testing.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University sufferred another student death, this time the victim was an accomplished violinist who was studying music as a graduate student.
The passing of Caroline Yoshimoto, 28, a doctoral student at the Mason Gross School of Arts, marks at least the tenth student death since September.
Richard L. Edwards Chancellor of Rutgers-New Brunswick said that she unexpectedly died on Thursday February 26 and that her cause of death was not stated.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—As the annual tax deadline of April 15 approaches, tens of thousands of Americans are falling victim to scams that begin with a telephone call.
As of August 2014, more than $5 million have been scammed from an estimated 1,100 taxpayers through bogus phone calls from people pretending to be representatives of official government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The callers often demand immediate payment and threaten arrest or the freezing of assets.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held an unusually short and possibly unlawful conference meeting on March 2.
At the start of the meeting, they listened to a quick presentation from Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer Chairman John A. Hoffman, Esq. about an open space purchase listed on the consent agenda for approval at the board's next meeting.
The presentation was the only business conducted.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Online testing software called "ProctorTrack," known for its extensive monitoring and "anti-cheating" technology, could expand three additional universities in New Jersey, according to Verificient Technologies CEO Tim Dutta.
"There are three other schools that we're talking to right now in New Jersey that I'm aware of," Dutta told New Brunswick Today.
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