News Around New Jersey
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
June 6, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – Outdoor dining on George Street is returning with a beefed-up schedule of programming and newly created areas set aside for passersby to sit. The City Council voted at Wednesday’s meeting to close the road to traffic starting Thursday (today). Officials said, however, it was ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ - Today, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings along France's Normandy coast during World War II. American forces suffered over 4,000 casualties on Omaha Beach, the bloodiest of the five landing sites. World leaders, including President Biden, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Two lines of girls raced toward the center of the courtyard at the Blanquita B. Valenti Community School one afternoon last week. And, when they met in the middle, they shared brief glimpses of when brightest shines their star power – their code word for self-esteem. “My star ...
FLORENCE -- Construction work is moving along at the Project Freedom at Historic Roebling complex that will bring 72 barrier-free homes to Florence, Burlington County. With Freedom Village at Historic Roebling due to open in December 2024, pre-applications are rolling in to live in the complex, ...
NEWARK — Representatives for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark and the owner of the Hotel Riviera shelter defended their operations during the City Council’s pre-meeting on Tuesday in advance of the council’s anticipated vote on a contract to extend sheltering services. The ...
According to the Bible, the world began when God said 'Let there be light'. Four years ago, the powers that be at St. Benedict's Preparatory School, the venerated Catholic college prep school located in the heart of Newark, made a fateful decision that changed the face of the formerly male-only ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD - A local woman was honored last week for the role she played in helping to save the life of a South Plainfield teenager. At the 200 Club of Middlesex County's annual Valor Awards Ceremony held May 30, Piscataway resident Christine Torres was presented with both a Civilian ...
BRIDGEWATER - Actor Steve Schirripa, who played “Bobby Baccalieri” on the HBO drama “The Sopranos,” and more recently, Detective Anthony Abetemarco.on the long-running CBS series “Blue Bloods,” was simply himself yesterday, a hardcore baseball fan enjoying a day at the ballpark with his wife Laura ...
PISCATAWAY – Christine Torres of Piscataway was presented with the Civilian Lifesaving Award at the 200 Club of Middlesex County’s annual Valor Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Torres was nominated to receive the award for rescuing a South Plainfield motorist from an overturned vehicle on Route 287 ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ -- The Sayreville Historical Society celebrated its golden anniversary at the VFW Post 4699 on Jernee Mill Road on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Current president Frank Terzino welcomed the crowd, and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin made brief remarks congratulating the Historical ...
NEWARK — A former city police officer, who shot two fleeing suspects in the head, was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison for killing Gregory Griffin, 46, and seriously injuring Andrew Dixon, 35, during a 2019 car chase. Superior Court Judge Michael A. Ravin handed down the sentence to ...
TETERBORO - The Animal Protection League of NJ is protesting the impending capture and gassing of Canada geese at Teterboro Airport with a protest on Saturday, June 1, at 1.p.m. According to the group, Teterboro Airport has been gassing Canada geese and many other bird species and mammals for ...
CARTERET — A team of clever Carteret High School students came home winners from the prestigious ‘Odyssey of the Mind’ international competition’s finals held recently in Ames, Iowa. The seven-student ‘Ramblers’ team earned a third-place trophy at the Odyssey of the Mind’s World Finals contest ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit came to Alpha Public School on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, after Amber Olexa’s winning essay captured her mother’s 9/11 experience and how the country came together in the wake of the attack. Amber Olexa, an 8th-grade ...
NEWARK — The city owns 27.1 acres of land that it could use to help meet its severe need for affordable housing, another 21.3 acres are available for equitable commercial development, and 17 acres can be put toward green infrastructure, a study from Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and ...
PARAMUS, NJ - All of Chris Lupo’s work buddies are into golf, which meant lots of golf outings. “So I got into golf and took a couple of lessons but I sucked at golf. I was like, ‘I need lessons.’” That’s when he heard that PGA HOPE — a program that teaches veterans to play golf — was coming to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Dr. Dale Caldwell, a steadying force on the Board of Education during the triumphant openings of a new high school and the Blanquita B. Valenti Community School, as well as through the grim times wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, will step down next month. Caldwell, who was ...
NEWARK — The Newark Teachers Union and the district announced a tentative contract agreement on Friday that would give educators a 4.5% raise for each of its five years and bring the starting salary for teachers to $65,000. “We felt the best way to get a contract that helps Newark students ...
Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway repeatedly declined to give a direct answer when initially asked if he thought Israel’s government is genocidal during testimony at a congressional committee convened to explore campus antisemitism. The exchange with Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), in which Holloway did ...
WOODBRIDGE – Mayor John McCormac said Woodbridge has created a calendar that reminds residents of important dates, such as trash, recycling, and leaf pickups and shredding events. Mayor Brian Waller said Piscataway organized an Earth Day cleanup in which 200 volunteers of all ages helped clean ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Police records show that a bus driver is facing charges after he allegedly failed to drop off two 4-year-old New Brunswick schoolchildren earlier this month. Miguel Ganoza, 76, of Franklin, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree abuse and neglect of a child, according to ...
PATERSON - The 24th Annual Blue Mass united law enforcement officers from across the state to pay tribute to their fallen comrades on Tuesday. Bishop Kevin Sweeney and Monsignor Geno Sylva presided over the mass, which stands as a symbol of unity and remembrance for the community and law ...
PHILLIPSBURG - For 7-year-old Jaxson Strong, life was all about wrestling, baseball, school, and family. But a sudden ear infection led to a devastating diagnosis: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare and aggressive brain cancer. Determined to show Jaxson he is not alone in his ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Emmanuelle Aria Castañeda remembers the audience’s rousing applause the first time she sang with her dad’s band. She got even more praise a few years later when she played Dorothy in her school’s production of “The Wizard of Oz.” “I just remember so many people coming up to me at ...
PERTH AMBOY — The “City by the Bay” has a huge supporting role in a major motion picture with many of its streets and buildings used as backdrops for outdoor and indoor scenes. Production company Pink Toes LLC filmed in Perth Amboy for a few days in May, shooting scenes for “Tow,” a big-screen ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – City officials say a new utility will create an equitable way of funding large-scale stormwater mitigation projects aimed at protecting the environment and responsibly managing the effects of storms and water runoff. The creation of the New Brunswick Stormwater Utility, which was ...
UPDATE: Judge: Newark's LaMonica McIver Survives Petition Challenge in District 10 Race Newark Council President LaMonica McIver could not have obtained over 1,000 valid petition signatures for the District 10 special primary election in the approximately three-day time frame she certified that ...
HIGHLAND PARK – Yeshiva student-turned-Israel Defense Forces call-up Avrumi Davis was going house to house in places like Jenin, where he and his fellow troops were collecting Hamas guns, uniforms and communication devices. “And we go into this one house – it was the fourth house that we go into ...
BAYONNE - Bayonne Fire Captain Matt Kemple was more than 350 miles from his firehouse last week, yet, when the alarm rang, at least figuratively, his life-saving skills went into effect. According to Bayonne OEM Coordination Edoardo “Junio” Ferrante, Kemple was one of four Bayonne firefighters ...
ROXBURY – A 95-year-old Holocaust survivor celebrated his bar mitzvah in Roxbury. The event took place during the May 10 Shabbat services at Temple Shalom in Succasunna. Morris Plains resident Fred Heyman did what most 13-year-old boys do at their bar mitzvahs: He assisted in helping the ...