TOP LOCAL News
By ELIZABETH A MEYERS
January 9, 2026
TRENTON, NJ – Central Jersey is skating closer to welcoming back a professional ice hockey team to the region. The group that has brought ice hockey back to Trenton, including Mercer County Executive Dan Benson, ECHL, The Oak View Group, and Mercer County, announced that the team name and logo will ...
RAMSEY, NJ — Public school districts across New Jersey will have to come up with a plan to ban student cell phone use for the entire school day by the start of the 2026-2027 school year under a new law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday.“With today’s bill signing, we are ensuring New Jersey ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – The leading non-profit agency in East Windsor and Hightstown – Rise – will receive financial support from East Windsor Township for the services that they provide to community residents. Under a resolution passed during a recent East Windsor Council meeting , Rise will receive a ...
BORDENTOWN, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is hosting an event in Bordentown this week specifically designed for families of fallen service members. The information session, “Navigating Life After the Loss of a Soldier,” is taking place on Saturday, January 10 from ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — With construction nearing completion, the East Brunswick Ice Arena is quickly emerging as one of the township’s most anticipated new public facilities. The TAPinto East Brunswick team recently toured the nearly finished arena during a sneak preview with General Manager Devon ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – The East Windsor Township Police Department (EWTPD) released information on Thursday about three recent arrests, which included an alleged shoplifting at the area Shoprite grocery store and a pair of drunk drinking incidents.According to the EWTPD, an officer responded to the ...
MERCER COUNTY, NJ – The Mercer County Division of Public Health is hosting an upcoming pair of clinics to provide vaccinations for children. The free clinics will provide COVID and flu vaccines for children who are uninsured or on Family Care A.The upcoming clinics will be held on:Wednesday, ...
HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – Hightstown Borough Mayor Susan Bluth and members of the Council are inviting the public to a Town Hall Meeting where the borough administrator will discuss upcoming 2026 community plans. Topics to be covered include stalled plans for a municipal borough hall building at the old ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – East Windsor Township continues to move toward the purchase of a parcel of land currently owned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) to create residential units for veterans with special needs. During their Tuesday evening meeting, the Township Council postponed ...
TRENTON, NJ – As New Jersey enters 2026, residents who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are navigating a period of significant transition shaped by federal policy changes, expanded work requirements, and lingering uncertainty following late-2025 disruptions to the ...
EAST WINDSOR – HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – The East Windsor Regional School District (EWRSD) is calling it a “new era” for the girls wrestling team which has fielded a roster of 13 athletes. The District says that girls wrestling is the fastest-growing high school sport in New Jersey with Hightstown High ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – East Windsor Township is looking for individuals to serve as members of their team in two different capacities: deputy municipal clerk and executive assistant to the township manager. In the full-time, non-union position, the deputy municipal clerk will work 35 hours a week with ...
HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – Amid a room containing state lawmakers and former local leaders, family members and friends watched as Stephanie Spann and Todd Frantz took their respective oaths of office and were sworn in as Hightstown council members during the council’s reorganization meeting on ...
TRENTON, NJ – Governor Phil Murphy announced the sixth round of New Jersey’s Medical Debt Relief Initiative, eliminating more than $86 million in medical debt for over 53,000 residents statewide.The latest round is part of the State’s ongoing partnership with national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt ...
EAST WINDSOR – HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – Registration is now open for the next kindergarten class at the East Windsor Regional School District. The class is open to students of homeowners and renters who live in East Windsor Township and Hightstown Borough. To be part of the kindergarten class, the student ...
TRENTON, NJ – Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill has announced her choice of Aaron Binder to serve as New Jersey's next State Treasurer and head of the Department of the Treasury. In this capacity, Binder will oversee New Jersey’s multi-billion-dollar budget, taxation, pensions, and investments, and ...
TRENTON, NJ – Mercer County will be part of a new program under the New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS) to provide evidence-based, community crisis prevention and intervention services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and co-occurring mental health ...
MERCER COUNTY, NJ – The Mercer County Library System (MCLS) is inviting area poets to participate in a Haiku Contest to share their works of written art. Poets are asked to submit Haiku poems in the traditional 5-7-5 syllable structure. The submitted Haiku must be an original piece submitted by the ...
TRENTON, NJ – Rates for New Jersey benefits for employees went into effect on January 1, 2026. The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) reported that maximum benefit rates and taxable wage base have been changed for Unemployment Insurance, Temporary Disability Insurance, ...
TRENTON, NJ – A measure pushed by lawmakers to make the process to apply for utility assistance simpler and available online is awaiting the Governor's signature after passing both houses of the State Legislature in overwhelming bi-partisan votes. Under the legislation, Senate Bill 4308 and its ...
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey nonprofits and public agencies serving seniors and people with disabilities have a new opportunity to secure funding aimed at combating social isolation, as the New Jersey Department of Human Services has opened applications for a new $4 million Senior Wellness Pilot ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – East Windsor Township has announced the top winners of their annual East Windsor Township Holiday Home Decorating Competition that asked residents to show off their holiday spirit. The first place winner is The Gonzalez family of Stonehedge Drive in the single-family home ...
PLAINSBORO, NJ — A Bordentown family rang in the New Year in a very special way this week.Noah Robert Bogdan became the first baby born at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in 2026.Noah arrived to proud parents, Robert and Erin, at 1:45AM on January 1, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces and ...
EAST WINDSOR/HIGHTSTOWN, NJ — While a new month is now ahead of us, let's look back at some of the top "feel good" stories to come out of East Windsor and Hightstown in December 2025! And the Winners of the Hightstown House Holiday Decorating Contest Are….: With the pictures of the festively ...
EAST WINDSOR/HIGHTSTOWN, NJ — If you live in the East Windsor or Hightstown area, you may be used to noise coming from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL).JBMDL has released its monthly “Noise Calendar” for January 2026 so that its neighbors know what to expect when it comes to sounds coming ...
UNITED STATES — A recent change by the U.S. Postal Service means the date stamped on mail may no longer show the day it was dropped off, a shift that could affect mail-in ballots, tax filings, legal documents and other time-sensitive mail.Under a new USPS rule that took effect on December 24, 2025, ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – The East Windsor Township Police Department announced the arrest of a man driving a stolen vehicle which included drug paraphernalia inside of it. At approximately 11:15 a.m., December 27, 2025, police officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in the Garden View Terrace ...
EAST WINDSOR, NJ – Start off the new year with an act of service by supporting an upcoming blood donation drive held by the New Jersey Blood Services. The Blood Drive will be held on Monday, January 5, 2026, between 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at Crunch Fitness located at 761 Route 33 in East ...
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ - Indie film producer/director Kevin Smith will host an auction of items from his personal collection — movie props, costumes, scripts, autographs and memorabilia — on Jan. 3 in conjunction with Bodnar's Auction House at the century-old theater he purchased during the COVID ...
EAST WINDSOR & HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – In March 2025, TAPinto was proud to open our virtual doors in East Windsor and Hightstown to provide quality local news in the community. In the months since, we have been able to bring local news directly to residents at their fingertips through email, the ...