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Award-Winning Union County Horticulture Program Benefits Children and Adults
May 9, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce that the County’s long-running Horticulture for People with ...
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Area Towns to Receive NJ Clean Communities Grants to Fund Litter Cleanup, Education Programs
May 6, 2013TRENTON - Summit, New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Chatham and Westfield have all be approved to receive a New Jersey Clean Communiti...
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Greater Newark Conservancy to Host City Bloom Luncheon May 16
April 29, 2013SUMMIT, NJ - The Greater Newark Conservancy will be having their City Bloom Luncheon to benefit Newark’s youth on May 16. T...
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Summit Free Market is Booming
April 23, 2013Last Saturday was the first of the two Summit Free Market events this spring...and it was very busy. People brought loads of great mer...
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Celebrate Arbor Day in Summit
April 23, 2013On Friday, April 26th, the City of Summit will celebrate “Arbor Day” in two separate locations. At 9:30 AM, Mayor Ellen Di...
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'Get Your Green On' at Trailside's Wild Earth Fest, April 28
April 18, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Department of Parks and Community Renewal invite families with children of all ag...
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County's Mobile Document-Shredding Program to visit Cranford, May 4
April 17, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announces that its next mobile paper-shredding program for personal, confidential persona...
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Earth Day Clean Up in Summit this Saturday, April 20
April 16, 2013Have fun with family and friends--help clean up Summit’s parks and open spaces in the Seventh Annual City-wide Earth Day Clean U...
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Zoning Board Unanimously Approves Community Garden on Overlook Property to be Operated Through Summit YMCA Grant
April 16, 2013SUMMIT, NJ - The Summit Board of Adjustment on Monday, by a vote of 7-0, approved operation of a 44-plot community garden on a three-l...
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Daffodil Day Ushers in Spring at Reeves-Reed Arboretum
April 14, 2013SUMMIT, NJ – Between the warm sunshine, the children running and laughing, adults relaxing under blossoming trees, and the color...
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WFA Spring Blooms
April 14, 2013Come to Wagner Farm Arboretum for its annual Spring Blooms event, a fun celebration of games and arts for the entire family. This year...
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Watchung Trailside Museum Presentation at Summit Old Guard
April 6, 2013Joseph Filo, Senior Park Naturalist and Elisa Sanaman, Union County Program Coordinator, will discuss the educational and environmenta...
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HydroFracking for Earth Week @ NPML
April 5, 2013This year, we are having an Earth Week event – actually 2 events – that highlight a topic of interest to NJ residents.&nbs...
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Nomahegan Lake Renovation Progressing
April 3, 2013Around 3:30 a.m. every morning, two huge water pumps are turned on at Nomahegan Lake. In three hours, the pumps will drain the nor...
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Recycle Household Hazardous Waste at County-Sponsored Event in New Providence, April 20
April 1, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders will sponsor a Household Special Waste Collection event on Saturday, April 20, so Union C...
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Union County's Mobile Document-Shredding Program Visits Scotch Plains, April 13
March 26, 2013SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announces that its next mobile paper-shredding program for pers...
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Trailside Program for Adults Explores 'The Nature of New Jersey,' April 11
March 26, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce an adult program at Trailside Nature & Science Center, &...
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MSU Environmental Expert To Examine Passaic Water, Pollution Issues
March 26, 2013The Passaic River, whose waters rise in Mendham and meander approximately 80 miles to Newark Bay, will be the topic of conversation at...
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Union County Residents Invited to Help Plan Sustainable Future
March 26, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce the first in a series of five County-sponsored public meetings in ...
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Explore Nature on Horseback in Union County's Watchung Reservation
March 25, 2013Spring is here again and Union County invites you to get back into nature by visiting the Watchung Stable in Mountainside and taking a...
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Union County Offers Free Scrap Metal Recycling
March 22, 2013The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce the 2013 schedule of its free scrap metal recycling events. A wide...
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Registration Now Underway for Elephant Tree Nature Camp at Reeves-Reed Arboretum
March 18, 2013Ready for a new alternative to the same old summer camp options? Reeves-Reed Arboretum’s Elephant Tree Nature Camp gives kids th...
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Earth Week Events at New Providence Memorial Library
March 14, 2013This year, we are having an Earth Week event – actually 2 events – that highlight a topic of interest to NJ residents.&nbs...
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Union County Parks Volunteers Celebrated for Service
March 14, 2013The work of hundreds of 2012 Union County Adopt-a-Park and Adopt-a-Trail volunteers was honored at a celebratory dinner last month, ma...
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Recycle Unwanted Electronic Equipment at E-cycling Event in New Providence, March 23
March 13, 2013The County of Union will sponsor a recycling event for electronic equipment on Saturday, March 23, so Union County residents can get r...