NJ Advance Media/The Star-Ledger won the General Excellence honor in the 2023 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, taking home a total of 73 awards in editorial, advertising and photography categories at the group’s annual ceremony Thursday. It is the third year in a row NJ Advance Media/The Star-Ledger took home the General Excellence award. For the journalism competition, The Star-Ledger competes in the New Jersey Press Association’s larger circulation division. Its sister publications, lehighvalleylive.com/The Express-Times, compete in the smaller circulation division. “Wh…