Hawthorne Top Stories
By LARRY FELD
June 26, 2024
NEW JERSEY - Tourist season in New Jersey brings life to our beaches. The Parkway becomes an automotive chess game with license plates reflecting exotic, far-off places like Michigan, Ohio, and Montreal. Most importantly, the season brings important dollars and employment to half a million New ...
PROSPECT PARK, NJ - The borough's administrator has been recognized as one of 2024's "Top Influencers in Local Government". Borough Administrator Intashan Chowdhury is in the top 20 of 101 chosen throughout the United States. "I am deeply honored to receive the top influencer recognition from ...
Yesterday, June 20, marked the first day of summer, and it is certainly hot! Two buildings in town have been designated as cooling stations: our library at 345 Lafayette Avenue is available Monday through Thursday 9am to 9pm; Friday 9am to 5:30pm; and Saturday 9am to 5pm. The Ambulance Corps ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - High school seniors walked away with more than $93,000 in scholarship money during the Class of 2024 Senior Awards Program on June 13. "I'm very proud of our seniors. You know, this class has a lot of really great students, and I'm just so happy for them to be able to receive ...
HOBOKEN, NJ - The Hoboken Police Department hosted a gun buyback on Saturday, an effort to remove firearms from local neighborhoods and reduce the potential for gun violence in and around the city. Funded by the City of Hoboken, the buyback took place at Hoboken Police Headquarters beginning at ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Residents that attend area schools, including Hawthorne High School were awarded several scholarships before graduation, which took place on June 18. Here is the list of the hard-working winners. Azana Legacy Award: Cadence O'Hagan, Benedetto Russo, Thomas Scheidegger, Kimberly ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Borough of Hawthorne contains approximately 170 acres of public open space for recreation and environmental protection. Of this total, about 50 acres are municipally owned, and the majority is used as active recreation facilities. The Eight Acre Woods is an 8-acre ...
NEWARK — Survivors of domestic violence incarcerated because they attacked their abusers and people serving lengthy jail sentences because they exercised their right to trial, are among the categories of people who may be offered clemency under an executive order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on ...
NEWARK — A basketball tournament advertised to feature scantily clad women at West Side High School next month was “not authorized,” despite a cheeky video from the organizer promoting the event, the West Ward Councilman told TAPinto Newark. An event page advertises the “Nuttin’ Butt Azz/NBA ...
CAMDEN – Democratic Party kingpin George E. Norcross III was on a conference call negotiating with the developer of the Victor Lofts condos, which held an easement on the view of the Camden waterfront that was impeding a Norcross development. In this remarkable business conversation, Norcross ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Both the valedictorian and the salutatorian were honored at a Passaic County breakfast in early June, along with other county students. Valedictorian, Sandy Saleh, raised in Syria and resettled in the U.S. when she was seven years old. She will be attending Montclair State ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Towncast has awarded its fourth annual pizza trophy to Steve and Jill Barbarulo, the owners of Patsy's Tavern, in Paterson. The Towncast, hosted by local Flavio Romeo, started its March Pizza Madness four years ago, and this year, there were an unprecedented number of votes.
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Green Team, with ever a watchful eye, spied more birds in Goffle Brook Park during their Bird Walk on June 9. Here are some of the highlights of their jaunt. Bird walk dates for the fall will be announced during the summer of 2024.
HAWTHORNE, NJ - Saint Anthony's Feast is a generational get-together "to honor St. Anthony," and this week, the event did not disappoint. The 42nd Annual Saint Anthony's Feast from June 12-15 was filled with food, faith and volunteers who helped bring the event together on the grounds of St.
SOUTHERN OCEAN - It appears that summer weather has finally arrived in the Beach Haven, New Jersey, area. This means the water temperatures are on the rise, and fishing excitement will be increasing. The main target in bay waters currently is fluke. These fish are in the bay waters and inlets. In a ...
Happy 100th Birthday to Janet Baskinger Monello. Janet turned 100 last Sunday, June 9; her family celebrated her century of living with a party given in her honor at Villa Rosa Restaurant. Janet was born in Paterson in 1924, married Ben Monello in 1957, and they moved to Hawthorne in 1973. Please ...
FANWOOD/SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA (FSPY) swimmer Clare Logan will compete in the 100 backstroke on Monday, June 17, at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fellow swimmers, coaches, friends, Scotch Plains Township officials and first responders, and ...
NEPTUNE CITY, NJ — With 75 years in business, Kelly's Tavern continues to be a beloved destination for great food, drinks and joyous moments at the Jersey Shore. A celebration is planned on Saturday, June 22, featuring live music by Eamonn Ryan and the Express and Tom Gentile, starting at 4 ...
HOBOKEN, NJ - For the past seven summers in Hoboken, the end of Pier 11 has been the home to a colony of common terns — a type of seabird that migrates north in the spring after wintering in tropical regions. They can often be seen acrobatically diving into the water to catch small surface-level ...
NEWARK — Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday and spoke against the clearing of their 40-day-long encampment at Rutgers University’s New Street Plaza. The Newark Solidarity Coalition organizers, who had demanded that the university divest from Israel amid ...
NEWARK — Water has stopped flowing and toilets aren't flushing at 22 locations in four of the city’s five wards due to one landlord’s nonpayment of nearly $1 million, according to a city official. And residents are fuming because of it. Joysalon Fulton, who said she is forming a tenants’ ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Hawthorne High School Varsity Lacrosse Team completed a historic season this spring, breaking multiple team and individual school records on their way to securing their first-ever League Championship in Hawthorne High School Lacrosse history. It's been an uphill climb for the ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The annual St. Anthony's Feast is up and running through Saturday, June 15, so the police put out a safety notice reminding residents and visitors to park legally during the event, which occurs along Diamond Bridge Avenue. "The Hawthorne Police Department Traffic Bureau would ...
CAMDEN – When Tracey Sharpe graduated from Gloucester Catholic High School and left her hometown of Woodbury to go to college she thought she was on the path to becoming a lawyer. While an undergrad at George Washington University, Sharpe volunteered for AmeriCorps in Washington, D.C., working ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Hawthorne High School softball program just completed yet another successful season-with 20 impressive victories. While each win was meaningful, certain games stand out as being most memorable for head coach Ed Iannacone. “A few games early, second game of the season ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Hawthorne High School Capstone students earned second place in the state-wide NJ School Board Association’s STEAM Tank Challenge, earning their school $1,500. Jacob Hernandez, Medrit Veliu, Ryan Corella, Joshua Duran, and Nathan Gaehring competed in this year-long process ...
OCEAN GROVE, NJ — The second annual “Art On The Porch,” a free community event, made a successful return to Ocean Grove on Saturday, June 8. A total of 80 artists participated, showcasing their work on 70 different porches throughout the Grove. An entirely walkable gallery of art was ...
NEWARK – About 500 service workers at Newark Airport rallied for higher wages and improved benefits on Thursday with the backing of City Council and other elected officials. Workers with Service Employees International Union 32BJ gathered by the dog park at Terminal A and chanted slogans and ...
The Hawthorne Pool has had trouble hiring lifeguards; lifeguards need to be certified, and our pool manager is running classes to have them certified. We expect staffing in order to be opened full time on weekdays and weekends as of Saturday, June 22. Our hours of pool operation are dictated by ...
NEWARK – About 500 service workers at Newark Airport rallied for higher wages and improved benefits on Thursday with the backing of City Council and other elected officials. Workers with Service Employees International Union 32BJ gathered by the dog park at Terminal A and chanted slogans and ...