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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States of America. The state is named after the island of Jersey in the English Channel. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania. Parts of New Jersey lie within the metropolitan areas of New York and Philadelphia.
Inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, the first European settlements in the area were established by the Swedes and Dutch in the early 1600s. The British later seized control of the region, which was granted to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton as the colony of New Jersey. New Jersey was an important site during the American Revolutionary War; several decisive battles were fought there. The winter quarters of the revolutionary army were established twice by George Washington in Morristown, which was called the military capital of the revolution. The New Jersey Journal, a newspaper published by Shepard Kollock, who established his press in Chatham during 1779, became a catalyst in the revolution. News of events came directly to Kollock from Washington's headquarters in nearby Morristown, which he published to boost the morale of the troops and their families, and he conducted lively debates about the efforts for independence with those who opposed and supported the cause he championed. Later, working-class cities such as Paterson and Trenton helped to drive the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. New Jersey's position at the center of the BosWash megalopolis, between Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., fueled its rapid growth through the suburban boom of the 1950s and beyond.

 

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Corzine plan allows towns to put off pension payments

Nov 20, 2008 7:37 pm

Saying it would "dramatically reduce the pressure on property taxes" during a bleak economy, Gov. Jon Corzine today offered county and local governments a half-billion-dollar break on their ...

 

Hillsborough man in custody after pre-dawn standoff with police

Nov 20, 2008 7:36 pm

A Hillsborough man was taken into custody after a 2 1/2-hour standoff with police early today, authorities said. The incident started shortly before 3 a.m., when police received a 911 call from a woma...

 

New Jersey pension funds lost $9B in October

Nov 20, 2008 7:22 pm

$28B shortage was already projected last year

 

Kinnelon woman falls victim to 'grandmother scam'

Nov 20, 2008 7:21 pm

The caller said he had been in a drunken driving accident in Canada and needed help fast. "Mom, it's me," he said to the 80-year-old Kinnelon woman. The man explained he needed $3,800 to get...

 

Ledger Live: Court fails Corzine school plan and inmates vs. Princeton

Nov 20, 2008 6:07 pm

Ledger Live - 11-20-08...

 

Rutgers prof wins National Book Award for Nonfiction

Nov 20, 2008 6:07 pm

Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark, has won the 2008 National Book Award for Non-fiction for her work "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Fami...

 

4 teens survive as vehicles sink in Mercer pond

Nov 20, 2008 5:36 pm

Four teenage boys "miraculously" escaped serious injury Wednesday when the two vehicles in which they were traveling veered off Conover Road in West Windsor - missing a utility pole by about...

 

Controllers say planes still making wrong turn at Newark Airport

Nov 20, 2008 4:51 pm

AP File PhotoA passenger aircraft waits on a taxiway as another takes off from a farther runway at Newark Liberty International Airport. Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty Airport say that mont...

 

Prosecutor counters cross-exam of informant in Fort Dix terror case

Nov 20, 2008 3:21 pm

The FBI informant paid to infiltrate a band of suspected New Jersey terrorists today neared the end of his testimony, with a prosecutor attempting to counter three weeks of cross-examination that atta...

 

Passaic River pollution dredging starts in '10

Nov 20, 2008 1:36 pm

Dredging of the most polluted portion of the Passaic River will begin in 2010, federal environmental officials said Wednesday, according to a report in the Record. The report said the Environmental Pr...

 
 

Local News for Morris County, NJ

Fairchild Fire Company Pancake Breakfast and Photos with Santa

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

Fairchild Fire Company of Morris Township if having a pancake breakfast and photos with Santa on December 14.

 

SUNRISE ROTARIANS LEARN MORE ABOUT A BETTER FOUNDATION

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

SUNRISE ROTARIANS LEARN MORE ABOUT A BETTER FOUNDATION

 

DRAWINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19, 2008

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

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100,000 told to boil water in aftermath of pipe break

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

Water pressure is back to normal for most of the 100,000 customers in 18 towns affected by Tuesday's water-main break in Franklin Township, but the boil-water advisory for possible contaminates remain...

 

N.J. plants among most dangerous

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

WASHINGTON (GNJ) -- Five New Jersey chemical plants are among the nation's 101 most "dangerous" facilities because terrorist strikes or innocent accidents could release poisonous gases killi...

 

Airport program stresses taking the stress out of holiday travel

Nov 20, 2008 5:00 am

NEWARK -- As if living through the terror and chaos at Newark Liberty Airport on Sept. 11, 2001, wasn't enough for Kaisy Belfon to swear off the airline business, there was the time an irate traveler ...

 
 

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The Residences at Livingston Town Center   NJ

Carillon at Livingston Town Center was designed with your lifestyle in mind. Elegant, maintenance-free living in three distinctive lifestyles.

 

Berryman's Branch Hometown America   NJ

Welcome to Berryman's Branch! Our cozy, well-maintained community nestled among the pines of East Vineland ...