Local colleges and universities and the flagship of New Jersey’s public university system have finally joined their brethren across the county in canceling on-campus classes.

On Tuesday afternoon, The SandPaper posted a story that said that Stockton University, Ocean County College and Rutgers had not decided, as had Princeton, Rowan, and Monmouth and so many institutions of higher learning across the county, to cancel in-person classes in favor of online instruction as a response to the…