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Collingswood Backyard Chickens Are Legal Again, but the Hen License Comes With a Class and a Test

Collingswood is letting backyard hens back in after 18 years. To get one, you'll need an application, a three-hour class, a test and two yard inspections. I didn't know a chicken came with homework.

She passed the test, the coop passed inspection, and the paperwork is still pending. Illustration: State of Laughs

I didn't know you could fail a test about a chicken. In Collingswood, you can.

After 18 years of saying no, Collingswood is letting residents keep backyard hens again. You can have the bird. You just have to earn it.

Brick Township Bans New Roosters, and I Had No Idea Jersey Had a Rooster Problem

Crowing is Brick's second-biggest complaint, according to the township. The roosters already there get to stay. New ones don't.

A cartoon mustang in a chef's hat parachutes over a dark football field, its lantern beaming light as a sleepy cow squints up.

Sussex Tech Football in Sparta Has No Lights, So Its Friday Night Games Happen on Saturday Afternoon

The Sussex Tech Mustangs in Sparta have no field lights, so their Friday night football happens Saturday afternoon. Now they're the last New Jersey school in a national field-makeover vote, open through Sunday, Oct. 25.

Two huge mobs in 1869 street clothes collide in a dust cloud chasing one ball as onlookers gasp.

Did You Know? The First College Football Game Was Rutgers vs. Princeton in New Brunswick, 1869

Rutgers 6, Princeton 4, New Brunswick, Nov. 6, 1869: widely recognized as college football's very first game. Two Jersey schools invented a sport by arguing. Of course they did.

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