By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/25/2025 12:09 AM
With full funding restored, Screen NJ avoids major service reduction or outright elimination
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/25/2025 12:07 AM
Regulators found evidence of PFAS contamination in Delaware & Raritan Canal
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/24/2025 6:30 PM
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. NJ congressmen to inspect immigrant detention site at military base Reps. Herb Conaway and Donald Norcross plan Joint Base visit. Court ruling raises questions about takeover of police departments […]
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NJ Supreme Court rules in case of Paterson, but signals need for legislative clarification
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/24/2025 5:40 PM
Opponents rally at State House as Assembly committee takes up controversial measure
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Reps. Herb Conaway and Donald Norcross plan Joint Base visit
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NJ Voters Guide: Governor This year, voters will choose a new governor for New Jersey. The state constitution prohibits Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, from seeking a third consecutive four-year term. The contested Democratic and Republican parties broke records for spending by candidates and outside committees. The winners were Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-11th), in her […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/24/2025 12:11 AM
Pentagon also plans to use airfield at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst for deportation flights
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One thing led to another after President Trump’s interim appointment of Alina Habba
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/24/2025 12:07 AM
The 300-acre island in the Delaware River lies between Camden and Philadelphia
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/24/2025 12:06 AM
The budget raid on the trust fund was a big blow to the prospect of new affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/23/2025 6:30 PM
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. NJ Supreme Court upholds state takeover of Paterson PD The ruling leaves authority for similar actions in question. Ciattarelli announces Morris County sheriff as running mate Republican candidate for […]
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Republican candidate for governor names Jim Gannon for lieutenant governor
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HUD signals takeover is the ‘most appropriate substantial default remedy’
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The ruling leaves authority for similar actions in question
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/23/2025 12:12 AM
A win for CoreCivic, which operates Elizabeth Detention Center, could mean ICE expands
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/23/2025 12:10 AM
NJ affiliates will continue to deliver services but ineligible for Medicaid funding
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/23/2025 12:07 AM
Amid inflation, more retirees than ever depend greatly on the program
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/23/2025 12:06 AM
‘At the center of the problem is a conflict of interest’ involving public utilities
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"Shell art isn't a new genre; it's been with us for centuries. The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells. ... The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s when everything was embellished with shells, from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture." — Stephen Crafti, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2025
Did you know?
Embellish came to English, by way of Anglo-French, from the Latin word bellus, meaning "beautiful." It's in good company: modern language is adorned with bellus descendants. Examples include such classics as beauty, belle, and beau. And the beauty of bellus reaches beyond English: its influence is seen in the French bel, a word meaning "beautiful" that is directly related to the English embellish. And in Spanish, bellus is evidenced in the word bello, also meaning "beautiful."