Hawthorne , NJ Religions and Spirituality Section

By REBECCA GREENE

May 30, 2022

SADDLE BROOK, NJ - Those with loved ones at St. Mary's Cemetery continue to question why their flower tributes were taken from grave sites in April and dumped in a dumpster.

"It's like your family member died all over again," Joan Herrmann said. She has been visiting St. Mary's her "whole life." Her brother, sister, father and mother, among other family members, ...

Hawthorne holds Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace in Ukraine

HAWTHORNE, NJ - If you drove around Hawthorne this past weekend, you likely saw signs urging residents to Pray for Ukraine. And on Friday, March 18, that’s exactly what the town did.

Hawthorne held an Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace in Ukraine at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church, hosted by Monsignor Raymond Kupke. In keeping with the theme, the ceremony was somber and at times ...

Ashes-on-the-Go: St. Clement's Episcopal Church Will Hold "Drive Through" for Ash Wednesday

HAWTHORNE, NJ - The Reverend Erik Soldwedel, deacon-in-residence at St. Clement's Episcopal Church at 271 Lafayette Avenue told TAPinto Hawthorne that parishioners and anyone interested can come to the church on Ash Wednesday, which is this Wednesday, March 2, between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. for a "drive through" ash blessing.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lent church season and ...

Pulse Nightclub Remembered by the Hawthorne Pride Alliance Foundation

By HAWTHORNE PRIDE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION

June 23, 2022

Members of the Hawthorne Pride Alliance Foundation along with Parishioners of St. Clement’s Church gathered at the church on Sunday, June 12 at 8:00 pm for a candlelight remembrance service for the Pulse Nightclub massacre that occurred on June 12, 2016. Forty-nine candles were lit to represent the lives lost in the morning of June 12.

The service started with Mike Stracco, ...

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Why Juneteenth Should be Celebrated by All Americans

By ANN MARIE PETERSON AND HOPE FOLEY

June 17, 2022

UPDATE: Since this article was originally published one year ago, Juneteenth Independence Day was signed into law by President Biden as a federal holiday in 2021. Juneteenth Day has been celebrated on the third Friday of June as a state holiday in New Jersey since 2020.

WHY JUNETEENTH SHOULD BE CELEBRATED BY All AMERICANS

Juneteenth – it is a term heard more and more in the last ...

Hi, everyone, I just wanted to share a surprisingly easy way to get rid of a lot of bugs in the yard in case you hate them like I do.

1. Get some yellow containers or some random colored containers and some yellow duct tape.

2. Put a couple little food scraps inside that will rot and smell delicious to bugs. Think small. A piece of chicken and a slice of apple or something like that. If ...

George Washington Escaped Being Captured in New Jersey, Thanks to Alexander Hamilton

By CHUCK O'DONNELL

July 4, 2022

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – George Washington was 'this close' to being captured by British forces and presumably hanged as a traitor from a tree in New Brunswick.

So as you scarf down those barbecue wings, knock back a few cold ones and celebrate Independence Day, consider that the ragtag colonies’ struggle to break free from King George III’s sway could have ended 246 years ...

In Ground Pool, Zoning Board, Real Estate, NJ Real Estate

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - A Kendall Park woman is suing the township, the zoning board, and her neighbors for constructing an in-ground pool that violates certain property ordinances. The woman claims that the new construction was too close to her property and failed to meet the standards set by the municipality, despite getting approval from the zoning board earlier this year.

Last November, a ...

Prospect Park Special Meeting of Mayor and Council June 30, 2022

By BEAUTY NADIM, CMR ACTING MUNICIPAL CLERK

June 28, 2022

BOROUGH OF PROSPECT PARK NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF PROSPECT PARK

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Prospect Park will conduct a Special Meeting on Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in order to consider and take action on the following matters:

RESOLUTION APPROVING THE EXECUTION OF THE SHARED ...

Borough of Prospect Park

Passaic County, New Jersey

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the following ordinance was passed on second and final reading and adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Prospect Park, County of Passaic, State of New Jersey at a meeting of said Mayor and Council held virtually and at the Municipal Building, 106 Brown Avenue, Prospect Park, New ...

All in the Family

By JOHN CHRISTMANN

On a stifling hot moonlit night in the summer of 1871, the infamous outlaw and gun slinger, John Wesley Hardin, shot a man for snoring.

Legend has it that Hardin, traveling with his cousin Gip Clements, fell back in his room at the American House Hotel in Abilene, Kansas after a raucous night drinking. The next door down, rancher Charles Cougar was sleeping peacefully, if noisily, in his room.

By JOHN CHRISTMANN

As a sentient human being, I need to stop thinking.

Happy the elephant is not a person, New York court rules.

I was confused by this headline because in the clipped style common to breaking news reports, I understood it to mean that New York’s court system is joyful that an elephant is not a person.

That made me happy too. Although not in the same way as the elephant, who’s ...