Monmouth University

One scientist describes New Jersey as a "shark-y place."

Most of the colleges and universities in-state now have added COVID to the required vaccines for on campus students in fall 2021.

The partisan split on immigrants in New Jersey illegally deepened in particular during and after the 2016 election cycle.

On a four-tier scale that denotes the status of water quality, Monmouth County's 10 coastal lakes fall in the worst possible category, according to data gathering led by Monmouth University that continues today.

"Certainly some towns do have the capacity to put some small amounts of sand on the beach — typically, that's more of a band-aid solution," said Jon Miller, research associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.

With a new presidential administration comes a stronger concern and willingness to fight the virus head on and bury it for good.

The knobbed welk, which is often sold as conch, has been designated New Jersey's state seashell since 1995.

Monmouth University will resume a hybrid schedule on Wednesday after a September "super-spreader event" was believed to have resulted in numerous cases of COVID-19 among students.

A number of institutions in the state are currently offering virtual "visits" only.

The health crisis is apparently pulling city-dwellers away from packed streets and towards the shore, or coercing folks who have the means to finally pull the trigger and purchase a second home near the coast.