TOKYO, JAPAN - Last night, Sam Mattis of East Brunswick Township placed eighth in the Men's Discus Final at the Tokyo Olympics. The former University of Pennsylvania champion landed at 63.88 meters (209 feet, 6.96 inches), a season best for the local Olympian.

Sam Mattis (East Brunswick, New Jersey) produced the best finish by an American man since Casey Malone’s ...

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- A large gathering of Union Catholic students, parents, teachers, alumni, volunteers, and members of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood community came out to watch local legend Sydney McLaughlin hurdle her way into the semifinals in the 400 hurdles at the Olympics in Tokyo on Friday. 

The high school set up two large screens to show the former Gatorade Athlete of ...

FAIR LAWN, NJ - Community building and camaraderie: this is the purpose of the borough's National Night Out, hosted by the Recreation & Parks Department and Fair Lawn's Police Department.

The event will take place on Tuesday, August 3 from 7 to 9 p.m., on Schmidt Field, located in the rear of Memorial Middle School. (Rain date of Thursday, August 5, ...

HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Dog Run found in Goffle Brook Park, just south of Diamond Bridge Avenue, is closed temporarily.  A tree fell near the corner of the run, crushing a section of the fence and necessitating a closure until it can be repaired.

Locals who bring their dogs to the run will need to find another way to exercise their furry friends in the meantime.  Pete Oneglia frequents ...

GLEN ROCK, NJ - Board of Education trustee Angela Pucci Bender has sued the Ridgefield Park Board of Education after she was suspended with pay for the remainder of her contract, a two-year span, following a no-confidence vote, according to a news report on July 8.

Bender has been a Glen Rock board trustee since 2019. Her current term expires at the end of 2022.

"Unfortunately, on the ...

NEW JERSEY -- New Jersey was ranked as the country's third best school system in the country, according to personal finance website WalletHub's annual list States with the Best and Worst School Systems. Only two states Massachusetts (No.1) and Connecticut (No. 2) ranked higher New Jersey. New York (No. 14) and Pennsylvania (No. 24) finished in the top half of ranking ...

FAIR LAWN, NJ — August is Elvis month and to celebrate, the Fair Lawn Senior Center will remember him…a legend in his time...and his food! 

On Tuesday, August 3 at 1 p.m. the Center will host Hackensack Meridian Health’s own Susan Kraus, RD, and her presentation that will get seniors “All Shook Up” over Elvis and his favorite foods - and by putting ...

PARAMUS, NJ — The County Prosecutor and 51 other police departments, including Paramus, participated in an education initiative that was focused on addressing current crime trends targeting senior communities.

The “We Care for Our Seniors” initiative was organized because cases of fraud continue to rise, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, and seniors ...

GLEN ROCK, NJ - The Board of Education has seven individuals running for three full-term seats. Each term is three years.

Bryon Torsiello, long-time board member, whose term is up at the end of 2021, has not applied to run again.

Candidates for the November election as listed on the Bergen County Election website (unofficial):

Karyn Stephenson

Sharon Scarpelli (incumbent)

Daniel ...

FAIR LAWN, NJ — While the list is still marked unofficial, there are eight individuals running for the Board of Education in November.

Today was the filing deadline for the fall Board of Education election. There are three open seats, each three-year terms.

Current board trustee, Wilkin Santana, announced recently he would not run for re-election. At the end of 2021, he will ...

RAHWAY, NJ — One recent report suggested that she was "spotted" in Rahway, language one might typically use when grabbing a sudden glimpse of something or catching sight of a rare, long-thought extinct, or even legendary creature. TAPinto Rahway prefers to imagine the mermaid has "arrived" in town, almost as a guest.

She is here, for the same ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - He was on his way to England via Africa, a young man born in 1920 to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City. As a newly minted Air Force navigator, his mission was to deliver a B-24 bomber and its 10-man crew to an airbase in Britain. It was nighttime in the Sahara. As he looked at the moon, he remembered how “terribly romantic and freezing cold” the night ...

NEWARK, NJ — In a state faced with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation, Gov. Phil Murphy is pushing to establish a universal home nurse visitation program for newborns.

Murphy signed a landmark bill (S690) on Thursday at the Leaguers, Inc. building in Newark, giving New Jersey one of the most comprehensive and robust home visitation programs in the ...

PARAMUS, NJ - The Diabetes Foundation (DF) announced a new program, the Bergen County Diabetes Initiative, in partnership with Bergen New Bridge Medical Center (CPB), to support people in New Jersey living with diabetes, to have better health outcomes. 

“Our partnership with The Diabetes Foundation furthers our mission to help our communities better understand and manage their ...

NEWARK, NJ – Years of industrial processing which has contaminated miles of water along the Lower Hackensack River stretching from Oradell Dam to the mouth of Newark Bay is now planned for a cleanup with some help from federal officials. 

State Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette announced on Friday that cleanup for the target area will ...

NEW JERSEY -- New Jersey was ranked as the worst state to start a business, according to personal finance website WalletHub's annual list of the Best and Worst States to Start a Business. Nearby Connecticut (No. 49) and Pennsylvania (No. 43) also ranked in the bottom ten, while neighboring New York came in at No. 22. Texas placed as the best state to start a ...

FAIR LAWN, NJ - It's officially gone. Mondelez, known for the towering manufacturing plant on Route 208 with the Nabisco label, closed shop on July 16.

While some impacts are obvious, such as the loss of 600 jobs and no more wafting cookie-baking smell, there are tax ramifications (Mondelez contributed $1M annually to the borough's tax base), and the impact of what another business ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Following the recent upsurge in the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on July 27 updated its guidance for people who have been fully vaccinated. The CDC said that while individuals can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic to reduce the risk of being infected with the Delta variant and possibly spreading it to others, wearing a mask ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Phil Murphy announced at his regular COVID press briefing on Monday, July 19, that over 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in New Jersey and that more than 5 million individuals who live, work, or study in the state are now fully vaccinated.

Among the 4,432,769 fully vaccinated individuals (as of June 28), only a small fraction of ...

PARAMUS, NJ - Ask busy young professionals to get something done, and they're first to raise their hands.

"I am happy to report that the foundation’s golf outing is sold out for golf and dinner participation," said Ryan Greff, vice chair of the Young Professionals of the Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Foundation.

The Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Foundation's ...

HAWTHORNE, NJ - The recent heat waves couldn't stop the drive of ten-year-old Peyton Cohen from organizing a lemonade stand with her friends in support of a young boy battling a rare disease.

Two months ago, three-year-old Luca Ataide started treatment at Morristown Hospital for an extremely rare cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of cancer that affects muscle tissue. Only around 350 ...