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Happy birthday to actress, director, producer, and Passaic/Hunterdon legend Vera Farmiga. Born in Clifton; Hunterdon HS grad; appeared in Down to the Bone; Up in the Air; The Departed; The Conjuring; the TV series Bates Motel; portrayed Livia Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark
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Happy birthday to Winfield Township, incorporated on this date in 1941. The sixth-smallest municipality in NJ was created for the defense workers of the Kearny shipyards. Fun fact: Actor Tom Dugan, who starred in the music video Legs by ZZ Top serving hamburgers, was raised in Winfield
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36 years ago today, Hudson County legends P.M. Dawn released their first album “Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience”
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Killing by NJ police of a person in mental health crisis raises new questions: NJ’s Arrive Together program, pairing mental health professionals and law enforcement on emergency calls, is not available in Fort Lee, where the killing occurred
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Happy birthday to 11X MLB All-Star, 3x MVP, and Cumberland County legend Mike "the Millville Meteor" Trout. Born in Vineland; earned 5 letters in baseball and basketball at Millville HS; threw a no-hitter against Egg Harbor as a junior; set a NJ HS record with 18 homers as a senior
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Former US Senator and US Secretary of State Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen was born in Millstone on this date in 1817. Graduated from Rutgers in 1836; was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1861 to 1867; appointed to a US Senate seat in 1866; appointed US Secretary of State in 1881
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