Hawthorne Top Stories
By STEVE BEITER
April 7, 2025
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ - Some members of the Book Club group of the Activities Club, including Don Hansen, Ken Bratspies, Patrick Benasillo, Richard Burns, John McCabe, and Leo Karpinski, relax after discussions of a recently read book and magazine. The Activities Club is a group of retired and ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Bird watcher happiness! April 5 was the first Bird Walk of the season and our feathered friends were out showing off.The next walk, hosted by the Hawthorne Environmental Commission and Hawthorne Green Team will be Sunday, May 4. Enthusiasts meet at the Rea Mansion, 675 Goffle Road, ...
Our Borough Clerk and Election Official, Lori Fernandez, calls your attention to the attached flyer regarding Party Affiliation Declaration and the deadline (Wednesday, April 16) for the 2025 Primary Election.Congratulations our Senior Roller Hockey NJYRHA champions! We are proud of you.The ...
TRENTON, NJ — New Jerseyans soon might have an incentive to forget about their plastic reusable shopping totes, as some lawmakers are pushing for a return to paper bags in grocery stores.The state in 2022 banned paper and single-use plastic bags at large retailers in a step to combat climate ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Boys & Girls Club of Hawthorne is thrilled to announce that registration for the 2025 Summer Camp is now open! With limited spots available due to Department of Children and Families guidelines, families are encouraged to register early to secure their child’s place. Who Can ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Westfield High School student Francesca Mani was in the room where it happened Wednesday when Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law legislation (A3540/S2544) establishing civil and criminal penalties for the production and dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, aka ...
FLEMINGTON, NJ - A beloved member of the Flemington community has been detained by ICE, and residents and elected officials are working together to try to get him released.A popular server at the former Blue Fish Grill in Flemington (now Nova), Karim Daoud was detained on March 12 and brought to ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - As the Hawthorne High School Varsity Lacrosse Team starts their season, they will turn to their senior student-athletes to lead this young team of players into the upcoming spring. The Bears look to defend their Division Title from last year, after securing their first-ever League ...
CAMDEN – NFL linebacker and Camden native Haason Reddick, who frequently returns to the city to support community events, plans to build 28 single homes and townhomes in Camden through a nonprofit organization he formed last year.Reddick’s Urban Renaissance Community Builders Corp. (URCB) of ...
HIGHTSTOWN, NJ – Hightstown residents with experience in urban planning and sustainability are coming together to create New Jersey’s first cohousing community that will merge “collaborative living with intentional design.”The proposed Rock Brook CoHousing Community is aimed at addressing the need ...
NEWARK - The city will file a complaint today with Essex County Superior Court against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which it says has opened its Delaney Hall facility without following proper building safety protocols, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka's office.In February, ICE ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Three incumbents for the at-large council seats have announced their campaigns for re-election, along with Mayor John Lane, who is leading the ticket for his second term.In a press release from the Hawthorne Regular Republican Organization, dated March 26, “Team Lane” announced ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Easter Bunny is on his way! He's coming to the historic Hawthorne Train Station on Saturday, April 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Train Station Location: 98 Washington Street, HawthorneEaster is on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
FAIR LAWN, NJ - The former Nabisco tower on Route 208 is being dismantled tile by tile, but that's no surprise. What was a bit surprising was the plan to replace the former cookie factory with something other than the proposed and approved warehouse.After resident Pamela Coles asked about the ...
CAMDEN – The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Camden County Commissioners announced on Sunday that they will join the national blue envelope initiative that lets police officers at a traffic stop know that the driver is autistic or has other special needs.The envelope, designed to hold ...
NEWARK - Messages like “It’s Madness To Think Sex Buying Won’t Land You A Penalty,” “Sex Buying Is Foul,” and “It’s Madness To Think Sex Buying Is A Victimless Crime” rotated on an electronic Broad Street billboard in Newark this past week, greeting sports fans coming to the Prudential Center to ...
It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of Rose Girgenti, wife of Senator John A. Girgenti this week. Friends may visit with the family at Browning-Forshay Funeral Home on Monday, March 31, from 4pm to 7pm. Our condolences to Senator Girgenti and his family.Our Borough Clerk and ...
RIDGEWOOD, NJ - The Healthy Steps Program is a 10-week walking program designed to encourage fitness and friendship among participants of all ages.Led by Isabel DeLeon, a Community Health Educator at Valley Hospital, the program invites participants to walk at Veterans Memorial Field at 9:00 a.m.
NEW BRUNSWICK – Public School District officials have yanked a social studies assignment that asked high school students to assess the case of a pro-Palestinian student activist who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month.In a statement provided to TAPinto New ...
NEWARK - The Newark Board of Education has approved up to $2.8 million for catering and takeout of continental breakfasts, lunches, dinners and afternoon refreshments over the past two years.District catering – ranging from Latino cuisine, assorted baked goods, pizza, buttermilk pancakes, soul and ...
ROXBURY, NJ – State officials are working with navigation apps Waze and Google Maps to reduce the number of drivers diverted from Route 80 onto Roxbury’s local roads due to sinkhole closures in Wharton, according to Roxbury Mayor Shawn Potillo. Potillo shared details of the effort following a March ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Three public high schools will have metal detectors at their entrances sooner rather than later after a Woodbridge High student’s March 18th arrest for allegedly bringing a loaded “ghost gun” to school. A day after that 17-year-old’s arrest, Superintendent Joseph Massimino sent a ...
NEWARK, NJ — CivicsNJ, a new, non-partisan coalition that describes itself as an organization “dedicated to advancing civic learning and engagement” launched earlier this month at a ceremony in Newark.“The purpose of CivicsNJ is to share information, connect teachers and other service leaders to ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Supper Bowl and March Pizza Madness tend to bring out the tastiness in local restaurants.On March 21, Flavio Romeo, host of The Towncast, presented the owners of Patsy’s Tavern with the Supper Bowl V trophy. The Supper Bowl, launched in 2021 during the pandemic, was created to ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ – “Fire DOGE, Not Vets” was the message Hawthorne and local area residents want to get out to their neighbors. A group of concerned citizens banded together to organize what they described as a “visibility event,” waving American flags and attaching their signs to the chain-link fence ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ – The Hawthorne Borough Council has approved a resolution to publish legal notices on government websites instead of newspapers, a move aimed at reducing costs and modernizing public communication.At the March 19 meeting, Borough Attorney Michael Pasquale outlined the reasoning behind ...
NEW JERSEY - With the federal enforcement of REAL ID set to begin on May 7, 2025, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC) announced additional opportunities for its customers to get a REAL ID with the creation of dedicated “REAL ID Thursdays” at Licensing Centers across the state. As of ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Hawthorne Borough Council is reviewing two proposed ordinances that are focused on altering traffic regulations within the borough. Ordinance 2364-25 seeks to standardize speed limits on Goffle Road and introduce a restriction on right turns from Rea Avenue, while Ordinance ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Hawthorne officials are considering a proposed settlement that would set the borough's affordable housing obligation at 200 units, slightly above its own calculation of 189 units. Borough Attorney Michael Pasquale recommended the agreement to the council, emphasizing that it would ...
Beginning on Tuesday, April 1, the DPW will resume its regularly scheduled street sweeping throughout the Borough. The parking regulations outlined in Ordinance 505-70.1 will be strictly enforced by our Traffic Bureau, who will be assisting the DPW by monitoring and enforcing compliance with the ...