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“In high school people used to say I was funny, but I never thought so,” says 24-year-old Gordon Baker-Bone. Pretty modest for the newly crowned Funniest College Student in New Jersey.

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Boonton Township resident Megan McWilliams, who shuttered her health and sustainable living magazine, Relevant Times, fifteen years ago for family reasons, recently had an epiphany. The publication’s former readership had quietly moved from the fringe to the mainstream.

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The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

The pleasures of the Jersey Shore run the gamut from A-Z.

Seen in: Jersey Shore, Shore News

After more than half a century of debate and bureaucratic tussling, Ellis Island’s ferry terminal is about to reopen. It will become the first building on New Jersey’s side of the island to reopen to the public since the U.S. Coast Guard closed the terminal in 1954. From 1892 to 1954, this was the spot where millions of immigrants waited to board the ferry to mainland America after their ocean crossing.

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