1. Lawn or meadow? It takes a Jersey judge to reaffirm that 'one man’s weed is another man’s wildflower'
(N.J./State)

... on the ecological benefits of native wildlife meadows and riparian buffers. He testified that in addition to preventing flooding, the meadow provides wildlife habitat, meets Natural Resource Conservation ...

2. The Nets restore joy and pride to Brooklyn
(Sports/Professional)

... city-owned land in Flushing Meadows, Queens in the same general location where later Shea Stadium and then Citi Field were built for the New York Mets. O’Malley refused, and he took his Dodgers across ...

3. The U.S. Open experience like no other...
(Sports/Professional)

... no event packs more punch and more people into two week’s than the USTA’s grand event. The brand exposure used to be limited to two weeks in Flushing Meadows and maybe a bus shelter here and there with ...

4. Sick of mowing? Meadow is the new lawn
(Life/Style)

... that – with all that water – he actually has to mow the grass once a week! Enter the meadow. No, I don’t mean, go in to the meadow. I mean, the meadow has entered the scene. Meadows are now a chic ...

5. Tips for viewing New Jersey's diverse wildlife
(Opinion/Commentary)

... from the water, beavers building dams, black bears foraging for berries, red foxes running through meadows and butterflies alighting on wildflowers. Here are some tips for watching wildlife. If you’re ...

6. 'The Secret World of Arrietty' movie review, trailer: Disney charms with this version of 'The Borrowers'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Moving Castle.” So the sheer beauty of its settings, from tasteful interiors to colorful gardens, meadows and streams could well be more appealing to adult art-lovers than children accustomed to animated ...

7. Meet the Mets and the Wilpon-Katz trio that drove them into the ground
(Sports/Professional)

... was not going to happen. Shea Stadium was surrounded by highways, the National Tennis center and Flushing Meadows Park to the north, west and south. To the east of the property there are junkyards. The ...

8. Transit Funding/Rutgers
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Great job! Congrats to us all in New Jersey. This is a huge accomplishment for the state's education, training and transportation for the future. Good luck in 2012. Judy Rabinowitz 7 Meadows Lane Ocean, ...

9. Police say N.J. teen arrested for driving drunk with an illegal gun
(N.J./State)

Police say he was driving down the street with open containers of beer and a shotgun. He had a shotgun shell in his pocket. And he was drunk. And he was only 14. The Great Meadows, N.J., boy was stopped ...

10. Penn State alum Franco Harris latest Joe Paterno supporter to lose job
(Sports/Professional)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Meadows Racetrack and Casino has announced that they will no longer require the services of Franco Harris at the present time, after the former Pittsburgh Steelers ...

11. Reply
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I live in the same development in Great Meadows and absolutely agree with you. I can't even begin to state the frustrations and the fact we have 2 children under the age of three. The customer service ...

12. Great Meadows power outage
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

JCP&L; offers no updates other than those on-line. So, without power, how do we check? I am in a development in Great Meadows. Our power lines are underground. There are no trees down outside of the ...

13. US Open: A remembrance of 9/11
(Sports/Professional)

... in the sports and entertainment world, the days leading up had produced some historic events of their own. The US Open was just wrapping up a momentous and record setting two weeks in Flushing Meadows. ...

14. Feds provide aid for green jobs training in Camden
(Money/Economy)

... was made at the Meadows at Pyne Point, a 40-unit special needs housing project on the former Knox Gelatin site in North Camden. It is anticipated that Camden residents trained in this program will be ...

15. Kingwood in Hunterdon County plans $7.5 million 313-acre park overlooking Delaware River
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Agriculture Development Committee. The Horseshoe Bend Road property is considered one of the more visually stunning tracts in western Hunterdon County. Its high meadows are home to meadowlarks, bobolinks ...

16. Definition of Joy: Brooklyn gets the Nets, while the L.A. Dodgers file for bankruptcy!
(Sports/Professional)

... authorities. Moses did not believe that the need for a new major league ballpark constituted such a public purpose. Instead, he offered O’Malley city-owned land in Flushing Meadows, Queens in the same ...

17. New Jersey awards $157 million for open space preservation and parks projects
(Life/Style)

... Cooper River Park; renovations to the oceanfront boardwalk in Long Branch; creation of an interpretive center for Mannington Meadows, a sprawling wetlands area adjacent to the Delaware River in Salem County, ...

18. Lindsay Massaro guilty of teacher-student sex
(N.J./State)

... 2008, Massaro was a sixth-grade student teacher one day per week at Great Meadows Middle School in Independence, The New Jersey Herald reported. There have been no additional reports of Massaro having ...

19. New Jersey-New York Harbor is on the mend
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... habitat in our highly urbanized region. By covering the old dumping ground with a sand fill, these new coastal meadows offer valuable bird habitat for at-risk species like grasshopper sparrow, bobolink, ...

20. A year in New Jersey’s Dismal Swamp
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... in the Dismal Swamp this year, for better and for worse. It is rare for me to not see healthy herds of 3 or 4 or far more each early morning and late afternoon on the meadows. That abundance, unfortunately, ...