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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Get the Patch App for Your New Smartphone

Follow your favorite hyper-local news site from the palm of your hand.

New electronic devices are one of the biggest gifts of the holidays, and now with smartphones, tablets and the like available, Patch has a free present for you.  You follow Patch on websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, but have you downloaded our Patch app? Well, now that you've got that new smartphone/tablet/fun electronic device, you should download the Patch app, which gives you up to the minute information from your local Patch site.  You can search through the App Store on your device, or you can click here to get the Patch app for free on iTunes. Not only can you read news on it, but post photos and videos as well.  Your storm-battered neighbors will attest, the Patch app was a big help when the power went out for days at a…

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Rusty Cut

9:50 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013

Pete - just saw this months later. How does wifi or cellular change anything in this conversation? Android includes tablets and phones. Just like ios includes tablets and phones. We're talking about apps for those platforms. Doesn't matter what connection they use.   more ›

Friday, June 8, 2012

Thanks for the Memories...and the Stories

Turns out, Millburn is a great news town.

Wow – what a wild ride. In the last 15 months, since I started reporting the local news for Patch in Millburn and Short Hills, there have been three natural disasters (Hurricane Irene, October snowstorm and an earthquake), numerous power outages, flooding and fights over charter schools, the zoning of a synagogue, a grocery store and a cell tower. If that weren’t enough for one idyllic little suburb with the best high school in the state, there was a crime wave of home and auto break-ins, a carjacking and attempted carjacking, two suicides on the tracks, an attempted murder case and a body found in the Reservation. Then there were the parades, games, plays, concerts and restuarant openings and closings and, after the hurricane, reopenings…

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Updated: Major Flooding Throughout Town, Cleaning Up After Messy Irene, Update: Schools Closed Monday; Thousands Without Power; Roads in Short Hills Dangerous, and 15 more ›

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Zoinks

5:59 am on Monday, June 11, 2012

I am just someone who has read just about every article since the day Patch launched with Millburn being in the first batch of towns (and it being called just Millburn Patch was the first controversy, amazingly enough).   more ›

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