Hawthorne Top Stories
By TAPINTO HAWTHORNE STAFF
August 9, 2024
HAWTHORNE, NJ — It's almost time to go back to school in Hawthorne. School begins for students on Tuesday, September 3. The last day, June 18, 2025, is scheduled to be a half day. Schools will be closed on the following days, according to the calendar: October 14 - Professional Day ...
WAYNE, NJ - William Paterson University (WPU) was proud to announce that it has been selected to receive a new grant from the government of Mexico which will be used to provide scholarships to WPU students who are from Mexico or are of Mexican origin. The award will provide financial assistance in ...
PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ - The Passaic County Board of County Commissioners, in partnership with Friends of Passaic County Parks, Inc., is excited to announce the annual Passaic County Fair from August 15th to 18th at Garret Mountain Reservation. The fair promises four days of unique activities, rides, ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - "The residents have heard us loud and clear," said Councilwoman Rayna Laiosa, who is lauding the success of the borough's polystyrene collection at the Recycling Center. "We've had two full loads of 40 cubic yards and a total of 399 pounds that we recycled," Laiosa told the ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - National Night Out is off, at least for now, with a chance of rain at 70% and flood warnings issued. National Night Out, originally planned for this evening August 6, which has become a much-anticipated family night of fun, has been postponed. The police have not yet put forward ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ- Jonathan Gomez Noriega, an aide to Mayor Steven Fulop and a former Olympic swimmer for Colombia, has stepped down as a member of Jersey City’s LGBTQ+ Task Force following reporting that he donated financially to his sister’s out-of-state anti-LGBTQ+ political campaign. Gomez ...
CLARK, NJ — Clark resident and St. Benedict's Prep rising senior Baden Wandling had quite a July in Florida. For most of us, such an utterance would simply indicate that we had a super terrific time hanging out at EPCOT and Magic Kingdom. But when you're part of an elite, nationally-ranked soccer ...
WAYNE, NJ – The storm that crashed over Wayne Township on late Sunday afternoon brought wind and rain, thunder and lightning, with one of those bolts striking an HVAC unit on the roof of BJ’s Wholesale Club at the Willowbrook Mall. The strike tripped a variety of breakers, including one for an ...
Regarding the August 1 tax bills: we are still waiting for our tax rate by the County. As soon as we have the numbers, our tax bills will be printed and mailed to you; we will keep you informed as soon as we hear. The grace period will, of course, be extended. On Monday we sent out a Nixle ...
BAYONNE, NJ - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has approved the sale of land to the City of Bayonne for the construction of a ferry terminal. This came after Mayor Jimmy Davis met with the heads of the state agency seeking to change the agreement that was made in 2020 to ...
HOBOKEN, NJ - The Hoboken Police Department arrested a man in connection with an incident in which graffiti was found on United Synagogue of Hoboken property at 115 Park Ave. The individual, 26-year-old Daniel Estreicher of Hoboken, was arrested on bias intimidation and criminal mischief ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The FBI finally tracked down a Trinidadian man wanted for 15 years in connection with the 2009 gunpoint robbery of a Woodbridge steakhouse where $150,000 was stolen, and workers were menaced. FBI agents arrested 51-year-old suspect Kofi Edwards in Sacramento, Ca., where he was ...
NEWARK — Tension is growing between the state's largest Latino-led organization and a national fast food restaurant franchisor approved to build a chicken restaurant in place of a Burger King on Broadway. Citing concerns about the decision-making process that led to the Central Planning Board’s ...
PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ – If you’ve felt that you’ve been waiting too long at traffic lights in Hawthorne and throughout Passaic County, relief may be coming...just not right away. The County of Passaic is moving forward with a “Regional Traffic Signal Optimization Project” that will begin a year from ...
WAYNE, NJ – For the second time in as many months, Wayne Police have arrested a package thief who stole a delivery of “multiple cell phones” from a home in Wayne - according to Wayne Police Public Information Officer, Detective Captain Dan Daly. RELATED STORY: Wayne Police Lie in Wait and Nab ...
NEWARK — They’re dumping on us, again. That was the sentiment of residents at a meeting of the Ironbound Community Corporation on Tuesday as organizers discussed the state Department of Environmental Protection’s environmental justice review. That review favors the Passaic Valley Sewerage ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — A disk that is part of a temporary installation by the late artist Seward Johnson is being put back in its place in Mindowaskin Park after it was thrown into the pond Monday evening, Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro said. The disk accompanies a lifelike statue of a ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Mid-July weather conditions forced organizers to postpone Piscataway’s annual bike rodeo to Tuesday evening, and change the location to the parking lot of the Little League Complex which allowed for a contained area for dozens of young riders to learn how to ride their bicycles and ...
SPARTA, NJ – The Kids’ Kastle playground at Station Park will be getting a make-over. The old structures will be dismantled and new “inclusive” equipment will be built in its place. The funding for the new facility is coming from a “Jake’s Law” playground grant. According to Sparta Recreation ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Meet your local first responders at the borough's National Night Out on Tuesday, August 6. The fun starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Bandshell grounds near the pool on May Street. What's there? Police, Fire, Ambulance, Ladies Auxiliary, music, food truck and ice cream. Lots ...
Leer en español NEWARK — The memories of fallen firefighter captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were fresh in the minds of family, colleagues and friends on Tuesday morning as the city dedicated two Ironbound firehouses in their honor. Family members pulled black ...
WASHINGTON – The recall of Boar’s Head deli meats has been expanded to approximately 7 million pounds of deli meat and poultry products. The updated recall issued by Boar’s Head Provisions Co in Jarratt, VA, includes additional “ready to eat” meat and poultry products due to possible Listeria ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Mark A. Sasso Memorial Fund hosted the ESPN 98.7 All-Stars on July 27 for the 16th Annual Mark A. Sasso Softball Fundraiser. Anna Marie Sasso hosts the fundraisers in honor of her late husband, Mark, who lost his battle with cancer in 2008. The fund raises money ...
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above ordinance was introduced and passed at a Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Prospect Park on July 29th, 2024, and that said ordinance will be further considered for final passage at a meeting of the Borough Council to be held at the ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — First, there was a loud “boom.” Then flames. That was how one neighbor, former councilman Mark LoGrippo, described the scene on Tudor Oval Monday, July 29, at about 10:15 p.m. “We were in the kitchen and all the sudden we heard a ‘boom,’” said LoGrippo, who lives two doors ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ- Rainbows are being brightened across Jersey City crosswalks ahead of the City’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month in August, first in front of City Hall in Downtown last week and now in front of the Hudson Pride Center in Journal Square this past Saturday, July 27. While June is recognized ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - The Hasbrouck Heights High School girls soccer team got into the spirit of the Summer Games with an Olympics-themed practice. According to head coach Jennifer Keller, the team has four seniors "so I made four teams, and they each got to pick what country they wanted to ...
SPARTA, NJ – The Sparta Cricket League held their season finals and awards ceremony at Station Park Field #1. The league is in its fourth season and has four teams competing. The awards were handed out by Sparta Recreation Director Jeanne Montemorano and Deputy Mayor Dean Blumetti. Councilman Dan ...
CHATHAM, NJ -- It started out as way to help the elderly keep their minds sharp and has since spread to become an award-winning card game that exercises the mathematical minds of all ages. No one wants to think about going back to school in July. Still, teenage sisters Aria and Oma Makhija had ...
CLARK, NJ — Sure, it's exciting to talk about how many New Jerseyans are currently competing in the Olympics. And, maybe, those of us who count Rutgers as our alma mater get similarly excited to hear that the university is represented in Paris by five former Scarlet Knights. But what if we told you ...