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Virtua Health Introduces New Mobile Grocery Store
Virtua Health has rolled out a new mobile grocery store to help reduce food insecurity and improve access to fresh, healthy food. The vehicle is part of a new $1.5 million, state-funded investment in Virtua’s “Eat Well” food access programs. The initiative will also include the health system’s first mobile “food farmacy,” scheduled to launch this summer.
Virtua Health Upgrades Its Mobile Grocery Store from Used Bus to Specially Designed Vehicle
A Virtua Health program that began in 2021 in a well-worn and not-always reliable former NJ Transit Bus has advanced to a specially designed mobile grocery store that was unveiled Wednesday to Virtua staff, government officials and donors.
Senator Singleton, Volunteers to Clean-Up Florence in Honor of Earth Day
MOORESTOWN - In honor of Earth Day, State Senator Troy Singleton is partnering with Florence Township’s Environment Commission to host a community clean-up for his April “Serve with Senator Singleton” event. The event will take place on Saturday, April 26th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and volunteers will meet at Foundry and West 3rd Streets in Florence.
Here’s what we can do about affordable homes in N.J.
Opinion
It’s been 50 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Mount Laurel decision, effectively ending discriminatory zoning and expanding affordable housing opportunities throughout New Jersey.
Right treatment, right time
Both chambers in the state legislature passed a bill last month to increase access to essential biomarker testing that will now go to Gov. Phil Murphy for signing.
Reading fan
Longtime reader and Charles Street School fan, state Sen. Troy Singleton, recently visited the second-grade class during Read Across America.
Burlington County and NJDEP Holding Three Public Workshops For Climate Change Resiliency Planning
Burlington County is partnering with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and 11 county municipalities to assess climate change-related hazards in towns within the Route 130 Corridor and make plans to improve resiliency to future floods, severe storms and other hazards.
Singleton, Zwicker Legislation to Preserve Family Wealth and Protect Inheritors of Property Passes
TRENTON – Aiming to better preserve family wealth passed on in the form of real property, the Senate advanced legislation sponsored by Senators Troy Singleton and Andrew Zwicker known as the “Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act” that would establish new requirements concerning partition actions to more strongly protect the interests of cotenant property owners who may object to the action of another owner.
Burlington County Farmers Market Becomes Finalist To Be Crowned Best in the U.S.
MOORESTOWN – New Jersey’s favorite farmers market is now vying to be named the best in the nation.
Singleton Bill Would Establish Enhanced Transit Village Program
Trenton – In an effort to support mixed-use, transit-oriented development (TOD) and build upon the success of New Jersey’s Transit Village Initiative, the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee advanced legislation sponsored by Senator Troy Singleton that would establish an Enhanced Transit Village Program to better support and incentivize mixed-use development in close proximity to public transportation.