It's an idea that can't fail, and it's for a good cause. Now the only things organizers hope will improve in its second year are the funds raised ... and the weather.
For the last 18 years, Oasis Animal Sanctuary has been in the business of both rescuing small, companion animals like dogs and cats, and also taking in livestock.
We hear much about the crisis of securing a productive future for New Jerseyans on the autism spectrum when they "age out" of their educational entitlement at 21, but often, not enough is said or done about the adults who continue to require care.
The Holmdel-based Frances Foundation for Kids Fighting Cancer will partner with the two organizations in memory of one of the foundation's "angels" who succumbed to brain cancer last year.
Bob and his donor Kim Roumes are continuing to "pay it forward" by participating in an event familiar to any follower of the "What's So Great About the Garden State" segment.
When Isobel Costello began her freshman year at Newton High School, she and her new friends began discussing how many students go home for the weekend without adequate food or basic hygiene products.
Cats both old and young, either shy or feisty, are learning how to transition out of shelter life and into healthy, safe homes, thanks to a nationwide program in which one Mercer County nonprofit has been participating this spring.
A team of five students from High Technology High School has taken home the grand prize of $20,000 in college scholarships in a nationwide competition, to recommend solutions to substance abuse problems by using mathematical modeling.