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Ditch The Face Mask, Hit The Dance Floor: NJ Relaxes COVID Guidelines Ditch The Face Mask, Hit The Dance Floor: NJ Relaxes COVID Guidelines
Ditch The Face Mask, Hit The Dance Floor: NJ Relaxes COVID Guidelines Social distancing and face mask requirements are so last year -- at least in New Jersey. Come this Friday, face masks will no longer be required at most public indoor spaces in the Garden Sate, and social distancing will no longer be required, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday. Dance floors at bars and restaurants will also be allowed to reopen come and alcohol can be served at bars again on May 28, Murphy said. On Friday, June 4, all indoor and outdoor gathering limits will be lifted. The new regulations come several weeks after the CDC relaxed their face mask guidelines.  "I am proud t…

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'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations 'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations
'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations Maskless patrons and employees scrambled to hide evidence when Paterson police raided an illegal after-hours club that had become a death trap, authorities said. Police found the door to La Café Hookah on Market Street locked when they showed up around 10:30 p.m. Saturday – a full half-hour after Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID curfew required them to close, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. City officers looking through tinted windows saw people “scrambling inside removing hookahs and bottles of alcohol and taking them out a back door that led to a small area with no exit,” Speziale sai…

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North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong
North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong Estefania Mesa was cheerful and excited to deliver her first baby as she was wheeled in for an emergency C-section at Hoboken University Medical Center on July 20. But that joyful moment never came for 28-year-old Mesa, who went into cardiac arrest on the operating table, causing a severe lack of oxygen to her brain for nearly nine minutes, family and friends told Daily Voice. The North Bergen mom has been in a vegetative state ever since, and her loved ones are struggling to understand where things went wrong. Despite a court order to release medical records from Mesa's procedure, Hoboke…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Liquor Licenses Of 10 New Jersey Bars Suspended Over 'Knucklehead Behavior' Liquor Licenses Of 10 New Jersey Bars Suspended Over 'Knucklehead Behavior'
Liquor Licenses Of 10 New Jersey Bars Suspended Over 'Knucklehead Behavior' Ten New Jersey bars could have their liquor licenses suspended for violations of the state's public health executive orders, officials said. The violations were reportedly found during a campaign by the state's Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control to make sure establishments are following Gov. Phil Murphy's most recent order, which closes indoor food and beverage services between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The order also bans bar-side seating, and maintains the enforcement of mask-waring and social distancing. "It gives us no pleasure to file these charges, but our job is to protect both pu…

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Oakland Restaurant Facing Consequences For Pre-Thanksgiving Bash Oakland Restaurant Facing Consequences For Pre-Thanksgiving Bash
Oakland Restaurant Facing Consequences For Pre-Thanksgiving Bash An Oakland restaurant is facing consequences for a pre-Thanksgiving bash featuring dozens of mask-less patrons. A photo of dozens of people gathered Wednesday night outside Portabellos Restaurant was the impetus for an emergency council meeting Monday evening. During the 6 p.m. meeting, Oakland council members voted in favor of shutting down the Ramapo Valley Road's outdoor dining license at 4 p.m. daily, for 30 days. "We cannot allow this to happen," Oakland Mayor Linda Schwager said after seeing the photo from last Wednesday's event. "This was a violation of the Governor’s Executive Ord…

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by Cecilia Levine