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Sesame Workshop Launches New Initiative to Help Children and Families Prepare for and Recover from Extreme Weather, Beginning with Storm on Sesame Street Special

New Special Features Celebrities Post Malone and Michelle Buteau

(New York, NY, July 30, 2026) As extreme weather events grow more frequent and intense, Sesame Workshop today announced the launch of its new initiative to help children, families, and communities prepare for, cope with, and recover from extreme weather like hurricanes, floods, and wildfires.

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MOODY'S ASSIGNS HIGHEST POSSIBLE SHORT-TERM RATING TO BERGEN COUNTY IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY FINANCING

HACKENSACK, N.J. – Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco and the Board of County Commissioners today announced that Moody's Ratings has assigned its highest short-term credit rating, MIG 1, to the Bergen County Improvement Authority's $27.6 million County Guaranteed Lease Revenue Notes, Series 2026, which will finance construction of a new building on the campus of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center.

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DOGDROP SIGNS LEASE TO OPEN FIRST NEW JERSEY LOCATION AT HUDSON HOUSE COLLECTION IN JERSEY CITY

Membership-based urban dog daycare brand brings flexible, enrichment-focused care to SoHo West
JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 23, 2026 – RXR today announced that Dogdrop, the membership-based urban dog daycare brand that pioneered the quick-stop model, has signed a lease to open its first New Jersey location at the Hudson House Collection in Jersey City's SoHo West neighborhood.

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Create Spectacular Giant Puppets and More for the Illumination 250 Parade, the Largest Public Art Experience in Bergen County

(Hackensack, New Jersey; July 17, 2026) – The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation invites the public to participate in the special ‘Giant Puppets Workshop Series’ led by artists from the internationally acclaimed Processional Arts.

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Young Swimmers Racing into Competitive Meets

NYC Swim Team Grows with Funding from New Special Olympics New York Program

New York, NY – New York, NY – There’s a beautiful indoor swimming pool on the Upper East Side of Manhattan where certified swim instructors teach young students with intellectual disabilities how to swim. The youngsters learn basic and advanced strokes, how to kick and even how to dive. Until this past spring, those swimmers didn’t have an opportunity to compete as a team and race against others.

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The Valley Hospital Introduces AI-Powered Planning to Enhance Precision of Heart Stenting Procedures

PARAMUS, NJ, July 27, 2026 – The Valley Hospital is pleased to be the first hospital in the country to utilize Heartflow PCI Navigator outside of a clinical study. This advanced software gives cardiologists new insights into a patient’s anatomy before performing coronary angioplasty, a procedure to open narrowed or blocked coronary arteries in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

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