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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wine Shipping Bill Signed Into Law

Local winery can now ship directly to customers.

A newly signed law permits small wineries, including Silver Decoy Winery in East Windsor, to ship directly to customers starting in May. Wineries that produce 250,000 gallons per year or less can also purchase a permit to distribute their wine to retailers. “This law balances the modern needs of our wine industry with the need of liquor stores and distributors and positions both for even more economic, job-creating success,” John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester/Cumberland/Salem) said in a news release.  Burzichelli sponsored the legislation along with John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) and Celeste Riley (D-Gloucester/Salem/Cumberland). Last week the state Assembly passed the bill, A-4436, with a 51-18-4 vote and Mark Carduner, an owner of Silver …

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

New Law Requires School Board Background Checks

New members will be checked for the same violations teachers are.

School board membership requirements have gotten stricter thanks to a new law. Signed into law on May 26, the rule requires board members and charter school trustees to undergo criminal background checks within 30 days of being elected or appointed to a charter school board, according to the New Jersey School Boards Association. Crimes involving controlled dangerous substances and drug paraphernalia, robbery, aggravated assault, stalking, kidnapping, arson, manslaughter and murder, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats, criminal restraint, luring or enticing a child, causing or risking widespread injury or damage, criminal mischief, burglary, threats or improper influence, resisting arrest, bias intimidation, escape, …

Lisa Shields

7:35 am on Thursday, July 7, 2011

So far as a "double standard" is concerned, a background check is looking for convictions under the law. If someone has never been charged, you won't find anything. And I never heard of an illegal running for the school board. Have you?   more ›

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