News Around New Jersey
By JAMIE GRILL-GOODMAN
July 12, 2024
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey dropped six spots in CNBC’s “America’s Top States for Business in 2024” list, from No. 19 in 2023 to No. 25 this year. The Garden State’s overall ranking placed it below neighboring states New York (No. 22) and Pennsylvania (No. 17) on the list. New Jersey outranked ...
The Italian Americans of Newark's Ironbound neighborhood are ready to celebrate their community and culture this weekend with the 134th annual feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel —a festive showcase of faith, family, food and fun. The street festival will be on Oliver Street between Adams and Van ...
NEWARK — Cook. Eat. Learn. That’s what 10 student chefs from Marion P. Thomas Charter School and Newark Vocational High School will do as they travel to Spilinga, Italy, as part of a “sister city” partnership between Newark and the town of the Calabria region. They leave on Friday, July ...
NEW JERSEY — Dengue, a virus spread to people through mosquito bites, has infected at least 47 people in New Jersey this year, according to the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, as of Thursday, there have been at least 2,559 cases ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ - Surviving family members and fellow law enforcement officers will join together on Saturday, July 13, to mark the tenth anniversary of the shooting death of Detective Melvin Santigo. The memorial walk will begin at 11:00 a.m. near the 13 Flags section of Liberty State ...
SAYREVILLE - Carol Bongiovi, the mother of rock star Jon Bon Jovi and a former Sayreville resident, died at age 83 on Tuesday, July 9, just three days short of her 84th birthday, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, according to PEOPLE magazine. A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Carol ...
WOODLAND PARK - The NJ Challenge Coin Museum, located inside Gun For Hire at 1267 McBride Ave., recently celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. "Challenge coins, steeped in tradition and symbolism, have long been cherished as part of military and organizational culture," ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD - Rob Fessock grew up in South Plainfield, graduated from South Plainfield High School and attended Towson University, where he joined ROTC. That began a journey that saw him assigned to Afghanistan, where the sight of so much death took a toll. Fessock now suffers from PTSD. "I ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The typical Rutgers undergraduate student will face a 4% tuition increase for the 2024-25 academic year, and mandatory student fees will also rise by 4%. Additionally, housing room rates and residents’ education fees will go up 6% and dining plan rates will increase by 8% for ...
BRIDGEWATER - He has always been attracted to books and television shows that put different, sometimes unrelated, topics together – and now 28-year Bridgewater resident Geoffrey Engelstein has written his own book, “The Universe Explained with a Cookie,” in that same vein. About 15 years ago, ...
CARTERET — Drag race celebrity-driver Elizabeth “Lizzy” Musi – who grew up in this Middlesex County community – has lost her toughest challenge against breast cancer at age 33. Elizabeth Patricia Musi was born and raised here, and was a 2009 Carteret High School graduate. She went on to become a ...
NEWARK — Newark’s Keith “Tsunami” Colon was doing so much damage to his opponent by the second round of his professional boxing debut on Saturday night that the referee stopped the fight. Colon, 21, won his match against Tennessee’s Hunter Turbyfill, 29, with a technical knockout, according to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Life-saving blood donations slow to a trickle during the summer months, when people are off traipsing on the beach or living the highlife in the mountains. Plus, public schools and colleges – which are often hosts to blood drives during the fall and winter months – are closed for ...
NEWARK – Newark’s Ironbound was filled with fans who watched two important soccer games of the UEFA European Championship Tournament (Euros) on Friday, July 5. The Spanish population was happy to see Spain knock out Germany, but the Portuguese population was despondent after their loss to France.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Music students from Grant School recently performed in what will, for some, be the largest concert of their lives. On the evening of June 5, close to 100 South Plainfield students in fifth and sixth grade took part in the American Young Voices Concert held at the ...
White House officials hosted advocates and allies last month for a panel discussion to commemorate the 25thanniversary of the Olmstead Act – a Supreme Court decision stating that people with disabilities have a qualified right to receive state-funded support and services in the community and ...
HOBOKEN - There are plenty of places to watch the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks this week, and it could be just outside your door. Residents and visitors are invited to view the fireworks show from all publicly accessible waterfront property, including: Pier A | 100 Frank Sinatra ...
WOODBRIDGE — The state’s record-setting $56.6 billion budget for FY2025 earned praise from N.J. Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin for its historic property tax relief and greater aid for schools and healthcare. Gov. Phil Murphy approved the $56.6 billion budget on Friday, June 28, two days ...
EUGENE, Ore. - Sam Mattis, a 2012 graduate of East Brunswick High School, finished second in the men’s discus at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Saturday. Mattis' throw of 216-9 was short of the Olympic standard (220-5), but he had entered the competition ranked 13th in the world, so he is virtually ...
MADISON – Rafferty Hopkins of Sparta competed in the 8U “Clinic Program” category at the USA Track & Field New Jersey Junior Olympic Championships at Kean University and brought home three state championship medals. Eight athletes competed on June 22 and 23. The top six in each event ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The advent of artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize aspects of everyday life in fields ranging from the arts to agriculture, entertainment to education, health care to hospitality. Nascent chatbot technology such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Dishes rattled, pictures fell off walls and the earth made a low growl on April 5 during a magnitude 4.8 earthquake that literally and figuratively shook people in New Brunswick and along the East Coast. And now, a team led by Rutgers–New Brunswick geologists has launched a ...
NEWARK — Their grandfather started by selling lemon ice with specks of real lemon and the frozen Italian desserts, spumoni and tortoni. That was 85 years ago, and Nasto’s Ice Cream Co. has since become an Ironbound institution, serving desserts from its shop at the corner of East Kinney and ...
ROXBURY - Wally Peer IV, an 8-year-old student at Kennedy Elementary School, recently won a state championship for angling and is preparing to compete next month at a national tournament. Peer, who is in second grade, won the New Jersey Junior Bass Nation State Championship on Swartswood Lake in ...
TRENTON, NJ - The path to returning Groundhog Day to Milltown took another positive step this week when. Milltown wranglers Russell Einbinder and John McNamara testified before New Jersey's State Assembly Regulated Professions Committee on Monday. Einbinder and McNamara spoke about how much the ...
NEWARK — Gunfire outside a police and fire training center in the South Ward on Tuesday ended with the arrest of two men, one of them a violence intervention worker who told TAPinto Newark the altercation was a “big misunderstanding.” Police arrested two men and recovered a firearm following the ...
BURLINGTON COUNTY — Members of the Burlington County community are rallying in support of the family of Michael Jeffrey Stewart, who tragically died on Monday at Liberty Lake Day Camp in Mansfield. The 6-year-old boy was found unresponsive in a pool on the first day of summer camp. The ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Some days, Tonderai “Tondi” Sanyangore transports trays of carefully sterilized surgical utensils from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital to another in-state facility. Other times, speed is of the essence as he delivers livers, kidneys or other organs to transplant patients ...
MANSFIELD — The tragic death of a 6-year-old boy who was a summer camper at the Liberty Lake Day Camp in Mansfield Township is under investigation, according to a Tuesday statement by the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. The Prosecutor's Office said that the boy was transported via ...
SCOTCH PLAINS -- Sydney McLaughlin begins her quest to make her third U.S. Olympic Team on Thursday, June 27, in the 400 hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Sydney is the world record holder (50.68) and defending Olympic champion (51.46) in the event. McLaughlin, who grew up in Dunellen, ...