APP.com Week in Review: Sept. 2
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Here are some News stories you may have missed:
17 kitchens with health code violations in Ocean County
🔒 Since January, the Ocean County Health Department has inspected 1151 restaurants, food trucks, convenience stores, cafeterias and other food establishments. Of the 1151 places, 17 received a conditionally satisfactory rating as opposed to a satisfactory rating. READ MORE
Hazlet NJ family needs your help to aid teenage son in cancer fight
The deliveries come to the Lupo family home in Hazlet twice a week around dinnertime. On Mondays, it’s pizzas. On Thursdays, the smorgasbord includes chicken parmigiana, buffalo wings, subs and salads. A local Italian place, Giuseppe Pizza & Restaurant, sends the goods gratis. It’s a kind gesture to make life a bit easier for 17-year-old Jack Lupo, his parents and three siblings. Jack has been undergoing chemotherapy for Ewing sarcoma — a rare cancer found in his right ankle. READ MORE
That smell in Atlantic Highlands is starting to worry residents
🔒 Living a block-and-a-half inland from Sandy Hook Bay, Sasha Pagella is used to the soothing aromas of the sea. For two days last week, a vastly different smell permeated the air. READ MORE
Here are some Sports stories you may have missed:
College football: Monmouth vs Florida Atlantic
It’s a monumental moment for an FCS football program, the weekend it overcomes a decided deficit in scholarships, facilities and funding and picks off an FBS team. Monmouth looks to land a roundhouse punch Saturday when the Hawks travel to Boca Raton, Florida for their season-opener against Florida Atlantic. READ MORE
NC State Wolfpack football: Former Wall player giving back in Raleigh
Over four years as the North Carolina State football team’s long snapper, Joe Shimko has delivered 475 snaps for kicks and punts. Not a single one went awry. Heading into his postgrad season, which kicks off Thursday at UConn, the Wall High School grad aced a different kind of delivery. READ MORE
Rutgers basketball: 3 things to know about forward Dylan Grant
The blockbuster 2024 recruiting class for Rutgers basketball just got bigger. Dylan Grant, a forward from Michigan, is the latest recruit to climb aboard, announcing his commitment Monday. READ MORE
Here are some Business stories you may have missed:
Jersey Shore real estate: Seaside Heights board OKs Boulevard project
🔒 A 10-story mixed-use building that is expected to boost redevelopment on the Boulevard was approved unanimously Monday night by the Seaside Heights Planning Board, marking a major step forward for the proposal. READ MORE
Whole Foods supermarket lets you pay by scanning your palm
🔒 Now you can make a purchase at Whole Foods Market with just your palm. Whole Foods Market, which is owned by Amazon, is installing new technology, called Amazon One, at all of its stores. READ MORE
Jersey Shore art: Beachwood NJ man uses unique medium — driftwood
🔒 Growing up in Lakewood, Darren Lee loved being outdoors and building things from natural elements. In 2020, he successfully combined his love of art and nature by launching D. Lee’s Things Adrift, through which he crafts handmade driftwood art that helps celebrate and preserve the unique experience of life at the Jersey Shore.
Here are some Entertainment stories you may have missed:
NJ restaurants: The Smoky Cottage offers bbq-inspired salads, sammies
The members of the Stavola family may be best known for their decades-long tenure as owners of Sea Bright's Driftwood Cabana Club, but they also have a passion for food. Andrea and Michael Stavola ran a catering company for years, and their daughter, Korrie Stavola, is keeping the tradition going with Salt & Smoke Market in Red Bank. READ MORE
Six Flags Great Adventure 2024 coaster and sunset resort: Coming soon
Waking up in a luxurious tent surrounded by wild safari animals is typically an experience reserved for visitors to Sub-Saharan Africa, but now that exotic experience is coming to New Jersey. A brand new safari resort is coming to Jackson Township, offering guests luxurious bedrooms with scenic views of free-roaming giraffes, oryxes, wildebeests and many other African species. READ MORE
Vegan bakery NJ: Wild in the Treats opening in Atlantic Highlands
🔒 Molasses cookies topped with crystallized sugar and decadent fruit tarts dripping with amaretto pastry cream are just a couple of the confections to discover at Wild in the Treats bakery in Atlantic Highlands. And they're all vegan. If you're not, don't let that scare you away because if no one told this nonvegan reporter, I wouldn't have known the difference. READ MORE
A look back at the Asbury Park Press archives:
NJ mobsters: Organized crime has a long history at the Jersey shore
The March 2019 arrest of a 24-year-old man in Brick who was charged with murder in the slaying of reputed Gambino family boss Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, is just one among many links between the Jersey Shore and organized crime. Mobsters have had a long love affair with the Shore, dating back to Prohibition days. READ MORE
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: News in New Jersey: Week in Review for Sept. 2
