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This year’s Show Off Your City contest winner, Verona, shares a magic moment at the Verona Community Pool in a winning photo by Norman DeShong and Aaron Tries.

April 2025

Feature Articles

  • Be SMART
    Get acquainted with New Jersey's initiative to help prevent wildfires
    Greg McLaughlin and Bill Donnelly
  • Long Branch Free Library Shows Off Transformation
    Ribbon cutting held for updated Carnegie Library 
  • Plan for a Sustainable Future 
    Stormwater management in municipal master plans 
    Angelica Apolinaris
  • Pathways to Public Service
    A Career Connection Fair
    Amy Spiezio
  • Show Off Your City 2025
    Verona Slides Into Summer Fun
    Elisa Northrop and Christopher M Tamburro
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Issue Focus: Sustainability

Be SMART -- Get acquainted with
New Jersey's initiative to help
prevent wildfires

Dry conditions. A spark. Repeat. The result: More than 1,400 wildfires consumed over 12,000 acres across New Jersey in 2024. Since 2019, wildfires in the Garden State have increased in frequency, intensity, and acres burned–just as the length of wildfire season has expanded. And the number of wildfires here already have doubled during the first two months of 2025, compared to the same time last year. 

As the state heads into a dry and windy spring, the importance of being prepared for continued wildfire threat is of utmost concern to the Murphy Administration, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, and its Forest Fire Service (FFS). To continue reading, please visit page 6.

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In This Issue

Member Op-Ed

League President Paul Tomasko, Mayor, Alpine Borough and David Grubb, Executive Director Emeritus, Municipal Excess Liability JIF provide insight on A-2145 legislation designed to protect public safety workers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To read Member Op-Ed visit page 42.

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NJ Knowledge Quiz

Celebrate Earth Day! This month's word search is all about Earth Day, Every Day. Take a break, sharpen your pencil and tackle this fun word search!

For more NJ trivia, view the last page of each magazine issue.

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Issue Focus -- Historic Preservation & Planning

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