\”We put our residents first, not ourselves. Public service is about service, not about benefits. We learned last week that Sony in Pitman is closing at the end of March, times are tough and we know it. We are in the process of making some very difficult budget decisions and every dollar we can save now is going to help us toward our goal of cutting the county\’s tax rate,\” said Director Damminger.

Director Damminger said that he instructed the county administration to research all its legal options to eliminate the benefits as of February 28, 2011 and is satisfied the county can authorize the insurance commission to enact the plan changes quickly.

Damminger said, \”We did not want to jeopardize anyone\’s situation by eliminating the benefit without giving them the time to secure other arrangements or if it was not within our legal purview. Since the announcement we have had overwhelming support from our Boards and Commissions and applaud their cooperation to save the taxpayers\’ dollars.\”

Producing Artistic Director Joseph M. Paprzycki states, \”Waiting for Lefty, Clifford Odets’s first produced play, is set during the 1930’s as taxi drivers contemplate a strike against their employers. The play is broken in vignettes showing what life was life during the Great Depression that eerily mirror our current economic landscape. I selected this play due to its continued relevance to our American society and the fit to our season’s theme ‘The Past in the Present is Our Future.’ Our production will take the play from the 1930’s and bring it all the way to 2011. It is a play that expresses the anger and frustration of working people towards their employers and their situations in their daily lives.\”

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Ewing, NJ… Prior to its meet with New York University, The College of New Jersey women’s swimming and diving team sported \”Team Beam\” t-shirts in support of Violet head coach Laura Beam.

Beam has been diagnosed with advanced stage colon cancer. Members of her swimming team at NYU organized a \”relay for life\” fundraiser and have since branched out to sell shirts with the help of Beam’s sister, Carrie.

Lions head coach Jen Harnett ’93 developed a friendship with Beam through coaching and contacted her sister Carrie to order shirts as a show of support for her friend and the NYU program. TCNJ’s swimmers lined the pool before the meet with NYU donning blue shirts that read, \”Team Beam\”. All proceeds from the shirts will be put into a fund to help pay for a second and third opinion after four rounds of chemotherapy. These appointments are not covered by medical insurance

A 1999 graduate of NYU, Beam was a two-time All-American. Since taking over the Violets program in 2004, Beam has accumulated a coaching record of 59-6. She’s produced NCAA All-Americans and guided NYU to four ECAC Championship titles.

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today officially announced the Trenton Fire Department was awarded $13,685,436 in federal funding to prevent 61 firefighters from being laid off. The funding is made available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) program. The highly competitive SAFER grant program is designed specifically to staff departments with trained firefighters.