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- Jersey City has been allocated the lion’s share of this year’s county open space trust fund dollars. The county Open Space Recreation and Historic Preservation Trust Fund Advisory Board responded to Jersey City’s request for $10.19 million for 16 proposed projects with a recommended grant of $1.68 million for nine projects.

- NJ Transit will introduce a new branch of the #6 bus to link the Lafayette neighborhood to Journal Square. The new service is set to begin on June 29.

- Police have confirmed that they are conducting an investigation of the city Parking Authority, but they won’t say why. An unnamed source tells the Reporter that the issue is theft by an employee.

- After reporting yesterday that Ricardo Torres — the victim of this month’s hit-and-run at 6th and Marin — was “out of [his] coma and … in stable condition,” the Journal notes today that Torres “remained in a coma and underwent another surgery yesterday.”

- A new real estate forecast says that, between now and the end of this year, the stabilizing influence of international shipping and logistics businesses in Northern New Jersey will provide a boost for the area as compared to other real estate markets.

In statewide news:

- Clean-water advocates face a setback as the state Department of Environmental Protection proposes rolling back a five-year-old restriction on the amount of phosphorus sewage facilities are permitted to dump in New Jersey’s rivers.

- The federal Department of the Interior has awarded four leases to wind power developers working in New Jersey, a move that allows offshore wind turbine projects to move forward.

- AAA Mid-Atlantic reports that New Jersey drivers logged fewer miles in April 2009 than in April 2008, while the national average increased during the same period.