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N.J. Botanical Garden tests ways to thwart deer Sunday, April 17, 2005 RINGWOOD - One of the main attractions at the New Jersey Botanical Garden, the garden of annual flowers, is edged most of the way around by a pock-marked bare patch where a yew hedge once grew.It's going to cost $13,000 to fill it up with a hedge of the Green Mountain variety of boxwood.If you were to ask why this is necessary, Rich Flynn, landscape designer at Ringwood State Park, which includes the botanical garden as well as Skylands Manor, would look you in the eye and calmly...

Positively relentless in saving Highlands Sunday, June 13, 2004  "They are so unassuming, so courteous, and yet they are so tenacious and passionate about protecting the environment." David Epstein, Highlands Task Force When it comes to saving North Jersey's environment, a group of women has proven that some crusading techniques are timeless.As legislators strode into the State House last week for a session that included a vote on the Highlands preservation bill, the halls were lined by environmental lobbyists - familiar faces from the Sierra Club and the activist Highlands Coalition. But among the most persistent at spurring passage of...

A minor earthquake occurred at 18:24:17 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time on Tuesday, August 26, 2003. The magnitude 3.8 event occurred 1 km (1 miles) S of Milford, NJ. The hypocentral depth was 5 km ( 3 miles). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magnitude 3.8 Time Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 18:24:17 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 3:24:17 PM (ADT) - Atlantic Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 2:24:17 PM (EDT) - Eastern Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 1:24:17 PM (CDT) - Central Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 12:24:17 PM (MDT) - Mountain Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:24:17 AM...

WEST MILFORD - A leader of the Million Mom March is coming to town Thursday to speak to parents about the consequences of keeping a gun at home.Joyce Sooy, joyces3@excelonline.com  president of the Bergen/Passaic chapter of the Million Mom March, will speak on the topic, "Can We Prevent Gun Violence?" at 7:30 p.m. Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church on Union Valley Road.Sooy led a bus caravan from Bergen County on Mother's Day in 2000 to attend the Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Thousands of mothers around the nation gathered to call on lawmakers to enact stricter gun...