Massive Vegan Food Festival Returns To Atlantic City: Patch PM

Good evening, North Jersey Patch readers! Here are some of the share-worthy stories from our area for today.

Here are the top five stories from North Jersey:

1. No matter your diet, it's been a while since people could come together and eat. New Jersey VegFest will stick a fork in that pandemic pause, bringing New Jersey's largest homegrown vegan food festival this weekend to Atlantic City. (Read more on Patch)
2. Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan took his talents out to the Jersey Shore on Wednesday. (Read more on Patch)
3. As of Friday afternoon, all New Jersey beaches are clean and reopened, after medical waste and needles washed up on at least seven Jersey Shore different beaches this past week. (Read more on Patch)
4. A New Jersey man was taken to a Bergen County hospital after he made a phone call to the Glen Rock office of U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer which "had the potential to become violent," Glen Rock police said. (Read more on Patch)
5. All employees of the Hackensack Meridian Health System will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by November. (Read more on Patch)

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