News Around New Jersey
By LARRY FELD
June 26, 2024
NEW JERSEY - Tourist season in New Jersey brings life to our beaches. The Parkway becomes an automotive chess game with license plates reflecting exotic, far-off places like Michigan, Ohio, and Montreal. Most importantly, the season brings important dollars and employment to half a million New ...
MORRISTOWN / NEW BRUNSWICK – Saint Peter’s Healthcare System and Atlantic Health System, building on their shared history of collaboration and aligned mission, vision and values, have announced a definitive agreement to expand their strategic partnership. This significant milestone comes from ...
With the 2024 hurricane season officially started, the New Jersey State Police is urging individuals with disabilities to sign up for the NJ Register Ready- Special Needs Registry. NJ Register Ready helps people with disabilities in times of emergency such as hurricanes. Information about ...
WAYNE – The 17-year-old from Wayne stood, warming up, just meters from one of her idols, Reagan Smith, the 2019 world champion and former American record holder in this event they were about to race, the 200-meter backstroke at the US Olympic Time Trials. Sarah Rodrigues, on Tuesday night in ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Yulissa Avila Martinez’s nearly two-minute-long rendition of a piece by 18th century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi sounded the perfect note. It was soaring, elegant and emotional. And it nearly stole the show during last week’s commencement ceremony. The New Brunswick ...
HOBOKEN - The Hoboken Police Department hosted a gun buyback on Saturday in an effort to remove firearms from local neighborhoods and reduce the potential for gun violence in and around the city. Funded by the City of Hoboken, the buyback was at Hoboken Police Headquarters beginning at 8 a.m.
NEW BRUNSWICK – A man who had been tormented by the day’s unrelenting sun emerged from behind the industrial-strength steel door with a rejuvenated spirit – and a fresh T-shirt, socks and underwear. The portable shower unit that took up residence for several hours Saturday on a craggy patch of ...
NEWARK — The Board of Education is demanding the school district get to the bottom of how a video of thong-wearing women promoting a now-canceled “Nuttin’ But Azz” basketball game was filmed in the gymnasium of West Side High School. At a meeting on Tuesday, school board members voiced their ...
NEWARK — Survivors of domestic violence incarcerated because they attacked their abusers and people serving lengthy jail sentences because they exercised their right to trial, are among the categories of people who may be offered clemency under an executive order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on ...
EAST RUTHERFORD — The New Jersey Hall of Fame unveiled its Entertainment and Learning Center at American Dream on Tuesday, June 18, before a crowd of supporters and inductees Tommy James, comedian Joe Piscopo (who gave us the famed Jersey joke "What exit?") members of The Smithereens, and four-time ...
NEWARK — Schools Superintendent Roger León on Monday said no alcohol was served at a “Superintendent’s Staff Fun Day” – an event for the district’s top administrators and their staff – held June 1 at an elegant venue in Warren. “Taxpayer funds” did not pay for alcoholic beverages because “no ...
NEWARK — A basketball tournament advertised to feature scantily clad women at West Side High School next month was “not authorized,” despite a cheeky video from the organizer promoting the event, the West Ward Councilman told TAPinto Newark. An event page advertises the “Nuttin’ Butt Azz/NBA ...
SOMERVILLE - Several members of the Borough Police Department set up shop on Saturday outside the Somerville Rescue Squad building with work benches on the driveway apron. Each work station was equipped with hand tools and lengths of wood that would be cut into shorter lengths by young ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A real-life storybook ending was playing out Saturday afternoon on Joyce Kilmer Avenue, where eighth grade English teacher Angelice Oramas was preparing to cut the ribbon on a little library in front of the Youth Sports Complex. Oramas’ lifelong love of reading was once unlocked ...
NEWARK — The city is ranked the nation’s worst for renters for the second consecutive year, according to a new report by Forbes Advisor, which says it analyzed 21 metrics within three categories across 95 major cities using the most recent Census Bureau data. Forbes gave Newark a total score of ...
NEWARK — Water service has been restored at 22 apartment locations in four of Newark’s wards after two days without it. The shutoffs were due to a property owner’s bill of nearly $1 million, according to the city’s Department of Water and Sewer Utilities. However, it appeared that by Friday ...
HOBOKEN - Pier 11 in Hoboken has for the past seven summers been the home to a colony of common terns — a type of seabird that migrates north in the spring after wintering in tropical regions. They can often be seen acrobatically diving into the water to catch small surface-level fish. The ...
WOODBRIDGE – Two police officers were wounded in a shootout with an armed man in the parking area between Royal Albert Banquet Hall and Raritan Hotel, off King George Post Road in the Fords section. A couple of well-placed police sources told TAPinto Woodbridge that the unidentified suspect was ...
NEWARK — Water has stopped flowing and toilets aren't flushing at 22 locations in four of the city’s five wards due to one landlord’s nonpayment of nearly $1 million, according to a city official. And residents are fuming because of it. Joysalon Fulton, who said she is forming a tenants’ ...
NEWARK — Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday and spoke against the clearing of their 40-day-long encampment at Rutgers University’s New Street Plaza. The Newark Solidarity Coalition organizers, who had demanded that the university divest from Israel amid ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A ukulele has cozied up on a chair in the music studio. Colored pencils, sharp as tacks, are dutifully aligned in a cup in the art room. Tightly folded microfiber towels stand ready to wipe away the rigors of a yoga session in the exercise room. Creative outlets, creature ...
NEWARK — The Newark Teachers Union’s membership has ratified a new contract that, if approved by the school board, will bring raises averaging 4.5% annually over its five-year term. The school board is anticipated to vote on the contract at its June school board meeting, district spokesperson ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Dr. Opal Lee, the 97-year-old activist known as the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ spoke at the Piscataway Public Library’s Kennedy Branch on Sunday, spreading her message of freedom and what motivated her to walk to Washington, D.C., from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, in September ...
The Newark Board of Education paid attorneys $54,520 in a failed attempt to keep secret its contract with a developer to build a museum at a school that it had sold many years ago, records obtained by TAPinto Newark show. This includes $24,520 in fees charged by the district’s attorneys, as well ...
NEWARK — Gaza War protesters camped at Rutgers – Newark Law School took down their tents and left as university police surrounded them and ordered them to depart early on Sunday morning, according to protesters and university officials. Removal of the protestors, who coupled their demands that ...
WOODBRIDGE — Two aspiring dancers from local high schools made a stunning debut in an emerging rock artist’s recent music video. Teenage dancers Emalee Rizitis and Leilani Wiggins got a big break appearing in a music video for “Qoya,” from velvety-voiced “Roxiny,” a Rolling Stone-lauded ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The zoning is the problem, Newark Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ras J. Baraka said at the New Jersey Planning and Redevelopment Conference on Friday. “The zoning laws are what is prohibiting us from developing the way we need to develop,” Baraka, 54, said. “The state is ...
OCEAN COUNTY - Mackenzie Giberson, of troop 50127, Manahawkin, was recently honored as a "Top Cookie Seller" by the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore. Mackenzie sold over 500 boxes of cookies. "Mackenzie is now 11 years old and has been a Girl Scout since she was in the first grade," her ...
ROCHELLE PARK, NJ — After more than a dozen years working with The Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) and COMMERCE Magazine, editor Diane C. Walsh is retiring. “I want to thank Diane for her many years of service and dedication to serving the business leaders of New Jersey, ...
NEWARK – About 500 service workers at Newark Airport rallied for higher wages and improved benefits on Thursday with the backing of City Council and other elected officials. Workers with Service Employees International Union 32BJ gathered by the dog park at Terminal A and chanted slogans and ...