News Around New Jersey
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
September 18, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway, a keynote speaker at last summer’s annual Harvard New Presidents program, began to choke up when the topic turned to students.Wow, thought Dr. Dale Caldwell, a New Brunswick icon-turned-president of Centenary University, who was listening ...
ASBURY PARK - The Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park ended on a high note this weekend with a spectacular three-hour concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. In their first-ever beach performance at Asbury Park, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist and his band delivered a dynamic ...
PISCATAWAY – Several firefighters from Piscataway’s New Market Fire Department have been awarded the Medal of Valor and Unit Citations for rescuing area drivers from flash flooding during a late 2023 storm that moved up the coast, putting their own lives in constant danger.The New Jersey State ...
NEWARK — Property owners providing short-term rentals risk being fined up to $2,000 per day per violation if they do not register their rentals with the city, officials said.Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced the city is enforcing a law, approved by City Council in December 2023, that requires the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Disinformation detox, Harry Potter's potions, a murder mystery and the Mafia.These and other disparate topics of innovative classes at Rutgers just might change the perception of higher education as a bunch of stuffy academics sitting around, puffing their pipes, clutching their ...
SYRACUSE, NY – Sparta High School alumnus and Syracuse University law student Billy Stoddard climbed 110 flights of stairs with a 50-pound sandbag Friday in remembrance of the first responders who answered the call 23 years ago on Sept. 11 and never returned home. “The 343 FDNY firefighters who ...
Cranford’s Alex Bernstein is excited to finally see the eight episodes he wrote for The Dog & Pony Show, which will have its U.S. premiere on Peacock, launching on September 15. Created by Emmy Award-winning writer Josh Selig, the hilarious 2D animated series features the adventures of a dog ...
NEWARK — A popular Japanese restaurant in downtown Newark has closed permanently because of repeated power interruptions over several weeks, the owners said.Kinjo, in a statement posted to its website, apologized to customers and said the owners decided to shut after careful consideration. Power ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Geraldine Hawkins launched into a celebration after deftly placing her ball just inches from the pallina near the middle of the bocce court.Her hands were waving this way and her hips were swaying that way and it all concluded with a high-five with Melanie Ford, the director of the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – On Oct. 7, Shalev Biton was trying to sleep off a long night of dancing and partying at the Nova music festival in Re’Im, near where Israeli farmland meets the Gaza Strip. Explosions jolted him awake just after dawn, and he and friends were soon running for their lives in the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – At last week’s ceremony to mark the installation of the final steel beam in the construction of the first phase of the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX), DEVCO President Chris Paladino talked about how company vice president Merissa Buczny picked out the Portuguese ...
WESTFIELD — Francesca Mani, a Westfield High School sophomore who has been advocating for stronger laws regarding AI-generated pornography after learning last October that she was one of several WHS girls who had fallen victim to it, has been named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most ...
The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office recently released body-worn camera (BWC) footage of a March 31, 2024 incident in Hightstown showing the response of Borough Officers Daniel Abbatemarco and Kenneth Larsen saving the life of a choking infant. The footage, a statement said, is being shared with ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A 13-foot-tall work constructed of high-grade aluminum and finished with a powder coating to ensure it remains pristine is the newest outdoor sculpture at Rutgers’ Zimmerli Art Museum on Hamilton Street.“Past is Prologue” by artist Patrick Strzelec was recently installed on the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Working as a member of the raising gang might be the hardest job among all the grueling and gritty jobs involved in the construction of the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX) project.It’s gotta be.Look, these ironworkers are tethered to the structure, nine, 10, 11 floors up, ...
WESTFIELD — A favorite of art lovers and photo takers, the temporary “Reflections of Ordinary Life” exhibition of five sculptures by the late artist Seward Johnson has also inspired darker motives, with some of the artworks falling victim to vandalism recently. In separate incidents reported to ...
NEWARK – Two well-known philanthropists in Newark, and one key social services provider in the city, recently joined together for a TAPinto Roundtable focusing on the ways in which they are directly impacting the lives of those in need.The panel included Mary Ellen Harris, the president of the ...
MILWAUKEE – The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee has immortalized Rutgers mascot Sir Henry as a bobblehead.Sir Henry makes hundreds of appearances a year at football games, home men's and women's basketball games, tournaments, bowl games, numerous on-campus and off-campus ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Seventy-six-year-old identical twin sisters Eleanor and Elaine James have become BFFs with hundreds of schoolchildren during their 11 years as crossing guards in New Brunswick. “The kids always say, ‘Good morning, Miss.’ And then they’ll say, ‘Have a good day, Miss,’ Elaine ...
PATERSON - Community members, activists, and city leaders gathered at Barbour Park, once notorious for drug use and previously nicknamed “Syringe Central,” to celebrate the completion of its $1.2 million renovation on Tuesday.The renovation was made possible by the dedicated efforts of local ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – It was a day of firsts for Donna, a freshman with her eye on studying history at Rutgers. As the new school year kicked off Tuesday, she took her first Rutgers bus ride, went to her English class and stumbled upon The Yard. “You mean they do that all here?” she said, when told that ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Despite its impressive size and multinational reach, Goya Foods is still a privately held family business; fiercely devoted to family, quality, and its Hispanic roots.“My first day with the company was in 1964,” recalls Robert (Bob) Unanue, President and CEO of Goya Foods. “Our ...
PHILLIPSBURG – Antonio Vidal was hooked on hockey from the moment he first laced up his skates at just 4 years old. Now, the 2021 Phillipsburg graduate has taken his passion for the sport to international heights, becoming a key player on the Cuban American men’s team that recently clinched the ...
Con artists are getting bolder and more creative, with new ways to cheat people out of money, according to the NJ Sheriff’s Association and police departments. The Sheriff’s Association of New Jersey (SANJ) issued a recent warning about a "significant increase" in these fraud cases across the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The newest weapons in the city’s efforts to handle trash and curb litter are a little more than 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide, run on solar power and can tell you if they are full of cast-off food wrappers and crumpled cigarette packs. Fifty new high-tech trash cans that were ...
WOODBRIDGE — Animal rights activists held another protest outside Woodbridge Center on Saturday, decrying the alleged “inhumane treatment” of reptiles and other animals at SeaQuest, the mall’s popular indoor aquarium. Saturday’s protest was the second since Aug. 11th. It comes days after news ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Jose, who is just a few days from entering second grade, was overjoyed with his new purple backpack that featured images of Spider-Man spinning webs, climbing walls and watching out for the bad guys. “I got the best one,” he said, with the backpack already slung over his ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Ashley Caldwell, weeks from her 20th birthday, is ready to join the New Brunswick Board of Education. And no one knows that more than her best friend, who has known her going back to when they would run around together in the playground during kindergarten recess. “Ashley will be ...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced today that more than 6.7 million travelers are expected to use its airports and vehicular crossings during the peak travel period from Thursday, Aug. 29, through Tuesday, Sept. 3. This would be a record for the Labor Day travel period. The ...
PATERSON - Thousands of mourners, including Gov. Phil Murphy, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies, attended the funeral of New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. at St. John the Baptist Cathedral on Wednesday. Pascrell, who represented the Ninth ...