Essex County

Over half the county park systems will open their parks, golf courses and open spaces on what promises to be a near perfect spring weekend.

Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart and Carli Lloyd also are among New Jersey celebs lending their faces to a charitable cause.

Train Wreck in Mount Holly, Claremont in Fairfield and Lazy Eye Distilleries all converted some operations to help the public.

The "pay what you can" philosophy will continue at the new Rutgers-Newark location to help students in need.

Snakes found in Montclair and Paterson were not in the "natural range" of northern copperheads, state DEP officials said.