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New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Liberty State Park will mark its 50th anniversary next month as a bountiful resource in the state.

Gerald “Gerry” Shreiber was many things: a stern but generous boss, an animal lover and a self-made businessman who abided by no one’s rules but his own, his obituary notes.

Ruth Lowe’s dance career might have been nipped in the bud before it bloomed. Her father, James Adams, was West Berlin’s fire chief, no doubt used to alarms and other noises in the town where the family lived. But he didn’t always care for the sound his daughter’s tap shoes made at home.