1. Proposed Water Tax to Fund Open Space
(N.J./State)

... of open space, we need a way to re-fund open space, farmland and historic preservation.” The Green Acres fund, which buys and preserves open space, recently gave the last of its $200 million in grants ...

2. Brookdale hosts annual Food & Agriculture Winter Conference
(N.J./State)

... keep a hive of honeybees, improve the yield of fruit trees, extend the growing season and raise winter greens. The food and lifestyle track includes the basics of canning and food preservation, the history ...

3. New Year’s Resolutions for New Jersey’s Environment
(Opinion/Commentary)

... land preservation. The last of the remaining state funds for open space, farmland and historic preservation were just appropriated. The preservation funding pipeline will slow to a trickle once those ...

4. Unique Murder Trial: N.J. Truck Driver, 52, Convicted As Juvenile in 36-Year-Old Union County Case
(N.J./State)

... and the Westfield Police Department’s evidence preservation for getting the conviction. Lynch said, “You can’t hide behind time anymore.' Franklin is being held in the Union County jail without bail. ...

5. Coalition needs your support to keep N.J. green
(N.J./State)

... on Green Acres and farmland preservation ballot questions, making us a national leader. Now it’s time for the Garden State to lead again. The New Jersey Legislature is about to allocate the last of the ...

6. Winter farmers' markets take root in N.J.
(N.J./State)

... of income. But what’s also needed to keep farming viable in New Jersey is a stable source of funding for farmland preservation. Next year marks the 30th anniversary of our highly successful farmland preservation ...

7. Help keep New Jersey farmers in the Garden State
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY MICHELE S. BYERS THE STATE WE’RE IN COMMENTARY New Jersey is doing a wonderful job preserving our state’s highly fertile farmland. In fact, the permanent preservation of the 200,000th acre of ...

8. From battlefields to barracks: Preserving Revolutionary War history in N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in fragmented or poor condition, and 222 are in danger of being destroyed within the coming decade. If Holt’s bill becomes law, it will boost New Jersey’s preservation efforts – and help our tourism ...

9. N.J. open space funds are running out of money
(Opinion/Commentary)

... are going to run out. From fiscal years 1998 through 2008 the Garden State Preservation Trust including Green Acres averaged $235 million a year. We are now averaging around half of that. 60 percent of ...

10. Sen. Barbara Buono gearing up to take on Christie
(N.J./State)

... Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee and Vice-Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee. While serving as Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee, Buono led hearings ...

11. Quaker Valley Farms ruling is a victory for N.J. preserved farmland
(Opinion/Commentary)

... fields and removed soil in order to build greenhouses for growing flowers and landscape plants. The property had been preserved 14 years earlier under the state’s Farmland Preservation Program. ”The ...

12. New study gives peace of mind to terminally ill cancer patients
(Health/Healthquest)

... the care has gotten out of control, and is no longer based on quality of life. It's preservation of life at the cost of quality of life," she added. To make sure those end-of-life needs are met, experts ...

13. 'Slow Food' does not mean crock-pot cooking!
(Opinion/Commentary)

... big benefits. If New Jerseyans just spent a little more of their food budgets on locally grown foods, it would support our farmers and farmland preservation, fight climate change and improve public health. ...

14. N.J. awards historic preservation efforts in Clinton, Demarest, Commercial and Haddon Heights
(N.J./State)

... at its annual Historic Preservation Awards’ gathering. The awards were for: Preservation of the 1759 Vought House, Clinton Township: A 2004 land purchase by the Clinton School District for a new ...

15. New Jersey's rare native plants need protection
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Pinelands Preservation Alliance and the New Jersey Natural Heritage Program began blocking illegal off-road vehicles, cleaning up dumped construction debris, cutting ...

16. Asbury Park officials hush up theft of Convention Hall antique copper panels
(N.J./State)

... been exhausted,” Chief Mark Kinmon told the Sun. The failure of authorities to notify the public of the theft has angered Asbury Park history and preservation activists. The Asbury Park Historical Society ...

17. Assembly Republicans introduce legislation to promote N.J. tourism industry
(Money/Economy)

... the Turnpike Authority and the South Jersey Transportation Authority to advertise local events and historic sites on variable message signs. A fourth bill establishes the New Jersey Historic Preservation ...

18. In bid to protect Barnegat Bay, state buys 385 acres of Pinelands
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to improving water quality in Barnegat Bay, an ecologically and economically vital asset to the state," Martin said. "The preservation of land is a critical component of Governor Christie's 10-point comprehensive ...

19. The only logical choice.
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... buy over 4 gallons of gasoline. Today, today it will buy almost 11 gallons of gasoline! That's preservation of value! And thats what the market has always said should be money - and not by edict or ...

20. Giant spider crab returns to Rutgers museum after 25 years in exile
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... his passion; the reconstruction and preservation of animal specimens, both living and extinct. Since he was a child, Mohn has been interested in nature and art and sought a career in which he could combine ...