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Rutgers Gets NIH Grant To Invent Coronavirus Breath Test
Rutgers, home of the COVID spit test, was given a $443,000 grant to make a device that can detect viruses like SARS-CoV-2 on one's breath.

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Rutgers, home of the COVID spit test, was given a $443,000 grant to make a device that can detect viruses like SARS-CoV-2 on one's breath.

The five Middletown teens who jumped into a frozen pond and saved two little kids in a sledding accident in December will be given $7,500.
Secaucus is also ready to launch its summer camps and is just waiting for Gov. Murphy to release his camp rules, which should be this week.
Here is where U.S. News ranked Matawan Regional, plus neighboring schools such as Old Bridge, Raritan and Holmdel:
This year’s list ranks more than 17,800 public high schools nationwide. Here is how Woodbridge's three high schools ranked:
The Hudson County vo-tech school was named in the top 2,000 best high schools in the United States, according to the latest 2021 list.
Randstand has immediate job openings in manufacturing and logistics in Secaucus. These are warehouse jobs in Secaucus.
Zega is not retiring. The Woodbridge BOE did not renew his contract when it expires this June.
Aberdeen Spray Park to open May 29; Ross Field is getting all new play equipment and a new swing set, and Midland Park will get an Omni Net.
A man was seriously injured in a paragliding accident Sunday afternoon in Keansburg, when the wind pushed him into electric wires.
Monmouth County wants to build a traffic circle at Locust Ave. and Valley Drive; it needs to take .35 acres of Hartshorne Woods to do so.
Released by Secaucus Police and unedited by Patch, all of last week's arrests:
A former special education teacher at Sayreville Middle School — who worked as a youth wrestling/basketball coach — was indicted Thursday.
A wrestling/basketball coach who used to work at Piscataway High School was indicted.
A wrestling/basketball coach who used to work at Woodbridge High School, St. Thomas Aquinas and in Woodbridge rec sports was indicted.
So far 2.7 million out of Gov. Murphy's goal of 4.7 million have been vaccinated in New Jersey.
A man who once worked as a Middletown North assistant football coach was indicted Thursday on charges of criminal sex contact with a minor.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine can resume in New Jersey, officials said, despite additional reports of blood-clotting cases.
While Aberdeen Twp. doesn't have registration quite ready yet, many private camps and YMCAs are already signing kids up:
Learn how to code, swim, skimboard, become a YouTube star or work on a farm! All the summer 2021 camps for kids in the area: