- Mayor Surprises Berkeley Heights Seniors with their New Bus
- Five-year Strategic Plan Update Shows Technology Benefits Berkeley Heights ...
- School Administrators to Investigate Offering Full Day Kindergarten in Berkeley ...
- Driver of Jack-knifed Tractor Trailer May Have Suffered Medical Episode before ...
- Planners OK Redevelopment Plan for Spatz Property at End of Lone Pine Drive in ...
- Berkeley Heights School Board Meets Thursday, Aug. 16, at 7:30 p.m.
By LUKE BERNSTEIN
August 21, 2018SPRINGFIELD, NJ - As the coach of the Springfield Swim Team for two decades, Karen Bocian has become a legend in the town of Springfield. Bocian has been a positive and dynamic leader of the team and her influence on the lives of young swimmers and their families goes well beyond the lanes of the swimming pool.
Bocian has been a swimmer for almost her entire life. She began her ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights will mark the construction of the new Municipal Complex with a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, August 23 at 7:30 a.m. The event will be held behind the engineering building at the end of the commuter parking lot.
Mayor Robert Woodruff and Council Vice President Michael D’Aquila will address the crowd, which will include town employees.
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights has a brand-spanking new senior bus, which took to the road for the first time on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. The bus, a 2018 Ford E 450, seats 22 people and has a wheel chair lift.
At Tuesday's weekly Senior Citizens meeting at Mount Carmel Hall, Mayor Bob Woodruff pulled up in the new bus and was greeted by the seniors, who were ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — The ribbon is cut, opening The Watchung Reservation Sensory Trail, the first of its kind in the county, and the most extensive such trail in the nation.
The sensory trail is a 0.3 mile loop with a central gazebo. Interpretive signage on the trail includes two talking kiosks highlighting the natural and human history of the ...
By TAPINTO BERKELEY HEIGHTS STAFF
August 21, 2018BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights has a brand-spanking new senior bus, which took to the road for the first time on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. The bus, a 2018 Ford E 450, seats 22 people and has a wheel chair lift.
At Tuesday's weekly Senior Citizens meeting at Mount Carmel Hall, Mayor Bob Woodruff pulled up in the new bus and was greeted by the seniors, who were ...
ELIZABETH, NJ – The Wharton Institute of The Performing Arts and the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra each received one of 63 HEART Grants awarded by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders this year.
The Union County HEART (History, Education, Arts Reaching Thousands) Grant Program provides funding for 63 artists, historians and local non-profit organizations. The Wharton ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Just in time before the Berkeley Heights Playground Camp wrapped up another success season, the campers were educated on recycling thanks to Berkeley Heights Environmental Commission member Kim Diamond and Dr. Patrick Smith of Smith Chiropractic Foundation.
Recycling is not new to the campers -- they've been recycling paper, bottles and plastic bags all summer ...
By TAPINTO MOUNTAINSIDE STAFF
August 20, 2018
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — The ribbon is cut, opening The Watchung Reservation Sensory Trail, the first of its kind in the county, and the most extensive such trail in the nation.
The sensory trail is a 0.3 mile loop with a central gazebo. Interpretive signage on the trail includes two talking kiosks highlighting the natural and human history of the ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ – Technology is making a significant and positive difference in the schools and on how the district communicates with parents and students. That’s the gist of the Five Year Strategic Plan Update presented to residents and the board at its Aug. 16 school board meeting.
The presentation was made by District Technology Coordinator Mike Skara and ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ – Don’t expect there to be a full day Kindergarten (FDK) offered in September 2019, but 2020 or later it could happen … or not.
Board President Doug Reinstein brought up the topic during “new business,” at the Thursday, Aug. 16, meeting of the Board of Education.
Reinstein acknowledged the board had talked about FDK in 2014, but ...
More Local News Around Berkeley Heights
By BERKELEY HEIGHTS COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE
August 21, 2018BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights will mark the construction of the new Municipal Complex with a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, August 23 at 7:30 a.m. The event will be held behind the engineering building at the end of the commuter parking lot.
Mayor Robert Woodruff and Council Vice President Michael D’Aquila will address the crowd, which will include town employees.
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights has a brand-spanking new senior bus, which took to the road for the first time on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. The bus, a 2018 Ford E 450, seats 22 people and has a wheel chair lift.
At Tuesday's weekly Senior Citizens meeting at Mount Carmel Hall, Mayor Bob Woodruff pulled up in the new bus and was greeted by the seniors, who were ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — The ribbon is cut, opening The Watchung Reservation Sensory Trail, the first of its kind in the county, and the most extensive such trail in the nation.
The sensory trail is a 0.3 mile loop with a central gazebo. Interpretive signage on the trail includes two talking kiosks highlighting the natural and human history of the ...
By LUKE BERNSTEIN
August 21, 2018SPRINGFIELD, NJ - As the coach of the Springfield Swim Team for two decades, Karen Bocian has become a legend in the town of Springfield. Bocian has been a positive and dynamic leader of the team and her influence on the lives of young swimmers and their families goes well beyond the lanes of the swimming pool.
Bocian has been a swimmer for almost her entire life. She began her ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Excel Basketball Camp recently completed its 38th year in New Providence offering a series of "instructional camps geared to provide instruction in basketball fundamentals to boys and girls in grades one through 12."
Since 1981, Excel has been a summer basketball tradition as thousands of boys and girls have learned the game and essential lifeskill ...
A two-sentence response to newspaper ad led to a remarkable 44-year career of covering high school sports in Chatham and the surrounding areas for Art Polakowski.
Helen Vance Levenson, the founder of the Independent Press had published the ad for a part-time sports reporter and the Chatham Township resident, a computer programmer at the time, responded.
"I saw the ad and had no ...
Food & Drink
By EDIR CORONADO
August 9, 2018NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - In an effort to uphold their mantra of providing their patrons a family friendly environment, Prestige Diner provided its customers with live entertainment Wednesday night, in the form of The Magician Simon Mandal.
The internationally known New Jersey native illusionist stopped by the restaurant during dinner hours, performing various ...
By BOBBIE PEER
August 12, 2018BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Just in time before the Berkeley Heights Playground Camp wrapped up another success season, the campers were educated on recycling thanks to Berkeley Heights Environmental Commission member Kim Diamond and Dr. Patrick Smith of Smith Chiropractic Foundation.
Recycling is not new to the campers -- they've been recycling paper, bottles and plastic bags all summer ...
By BOBBIE PEER
August 15, 2018The Brooke Healey Foundation Caring 'Til It's Cured #DIPG
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - The Brooke Healey Foundation is hosting their 5th annual Golf Outing on Monday, August 20 at Royce Brook Country Club in Hillsborough. This event has been held in honor of five year old Brooke, daughter of Stefani and Stephen Healey, who succumbed to DIPG, an inoperable and rapidly ...
Health & Wellness
By BOBBIE PEER
August 15, 2018The Brooke Healey Foundation Caring 'Til It's Cured #DIPG
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - The Brooke Healey Foundation is hosting their 5th annual Golf Outing on Monday, August 20 at Royce Brook Country Club in Hillsborough. This event has been held in honor of five year old Brooke, daughter of Stefani and Stephen Healey, who succumbed to DIPG, an inoperable and rapidly ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Mallory Rose Grossman, a girl from Rockaway, NJ, took her own life last June at the age of 12. Following this tragedy, her parents, Dianne and Seth Grossman, started a charitable foundation called Mallory’s Army. Its mission is to change behavior, provide education to parents and create enrichment programs for schools to put a solution ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Aside from youth sports, Columbia Park is a great destination to take a jog along their trail, walk your dog, play tennis or pickleball, or join a pick-up basketball game. -- Now, thanks to Berkeley Heights resident Charlie Pratt, there are tai chi classes under the pavilion on Thursday evenings at 6:45 p.m. RSVP by emailing ...
By HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW
August 20, 2018BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — The Hampton Classic Horse Show, which returns to its world-class 65-acre showgrounds in Bridgehampton, N.Y, Aug. 26-Sept. 2, will host its eighth annual Adoption & Animal Welfare Day and 13th annual Long Island Horse Show Series for Riders with Disabilities (LIHSSRD) Finals on Monday, Aug. 27.
The Hampton Classic’s Adoption & Animal Welfare Day has ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Riders from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania ventured to Kentucky for the 2018 USEF Pony Finals presented by Collecting Gaits Farm, a.k.a. "Pony Finals."
Samantha Takacs, 13, of Oldwick, N.J. and Galianna, Kim Wolf’s nine-year-old German Riding Pony mare earned the title of Overall Grand Green Hunter Champions for their performance throughout the ...
By TAPINTO BERKELEY HEIGHTS STAFF
August 17, 2018BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - Berkeley Heights and New Providence Volunteer Fire Departments responded to a dump truck fire on Twin Falls Road off of Diamond Hill Road Thursday afternoon around 12 noon. The cause of fire was mechanical failure.
The Berkeley Heights Volunteer Rescue Squad assisted on the scene.
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - A jack-knifed tractor trailer closed the right and center lanes of Route 78 east in the vicinity of exit 43, causing major delays Thursday morning.
The driver of the tractor-trailer may have suffered a medical episode as he was approaching Diamond Hill Road heading east on Route 78 when he hit a four passenger car causing serious damage.
WARREN, NJ - TD Bank in Warren Township was robbed on Saturday and police have released surveillance photos of a man sought in connection with the robbery in the hopes that someone will be able to identify him, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson, Chief of County Detectives John W. Fodor and Warren Township Chief of ...
By ED BARMAKIAN
August 18, 2018CHATHAM, NJ - The Borough of Chatham Council approved a resolution Monday night authorizing a preliminary study to designate River Road an "Area in Need of Redevelopment," which is the first step in a process that could lead to as many as 340 apartment units being built on four lots.
The resolution passed, 5-1, with council member Bob Weber voting no because of ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ – Most people in town refer to the land at the end of Lone Pine Drive as the Spatz Property. After last night’s meeting of the Planning Board, the appropriate name is “Mill Creek.”
On Wednesday, Aug. 15, the Planning Board reviewed the Redevelopment Plan for this property at the request of the council to see if it meets the requirement ...
