Middlesex County News
By JOHN MOONEY
September 18, 2025
Sayreville War Memorial High School has launched a Music and Recording Arts Program, designed to immerse students in the world of music production, sound design, and creative expression. The program will be centered on the recently constructed AP95 Recording Studio, donated by musician Jon Bon ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD - The Borough of South Plainfield is accepting applications for the following full-time positions:Clerk Typist/Stenographer 1 – Finance Department – Salary: $44,211.23 ...
WOODBRIDGE — The Cloverleaf Shopping Center will feature two healthy eateries and a new skincare service when it opens this fall at St. Georges Avenue (Route 35) and Routes 1 & 9 in the Avenel area.Wick Companies, LLC – the shopping center’s developer – announced that The Habit Burger Grill, ...
WOODBRIDGE — The 19th annual New Jersey Senior Olympics wrapped up on Sunday, Sept. 7th, after three days of 23 intense sporting events that brought 1,400 older competitors and scores of family and friends into town to cheer for them.People from across the Garden State, age 50 into their 80s, ...
New Jersey health officials have confirmed the state’s first human cases of West Nile virus this year, including an adult from Middlesex County, according to a Thursday news release.The Middlesex County resident reported symptoms the first week of August, while a child in Atlantic County was ...
A South Plainfield native’s recent success on a popular television quiz show has garnered him local stardom as well as an invitation to participate in an upcoming trivia event at his hometown library. On September 10, former resident and recent Jeopardy! contestant Scott Riccardi will be a guest at ...
The Hillsborough Health Department has been notified by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection/Fish and Wildlife Division that several vultures found in a ravine in the area of Wildflower Lane have tested positive for avian influenza (avian flu).Residents are advised to:Avoid contact ...
PISCATAWAY – Middlesex County will transport visitors back in time at the Roaring 20s Jazz Party on Sunday, Sept. 14, at East Jersey Old Town Village in Johnson Park, 1050 River Road, Piscataway.From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., guests can experience the glamour and energy of the 1920s with live jazz by ...
WOODBRIDGE — Sprouts Farmers Market – the major new anchor store at Cloverleaf Shopping Center in Avenel – has announced plans to open its fifth New Jersey store here on Friday, Oct. 3rd, and its first store in Middlesex County. To prepare for the grand opening, Sprouts Farmers Market will host a ...
PISCATAWAY – Middlesex County and RWJBarnabas Health are inviting residents to take part in the upcoming Walk with a Doc Fall Walk Series at Johnson Park, where community members can learn about stroke prevention while getting active outdoors.The series, held in partnership with Robert Wood ...
Food donations are typically down during the summer months and Spotswood's Alice's CUP Food Pantry on Main Street seeks donations to stock their shelves. The food pantry assists Middlesex County residents and families in need. Donations are needed for food, toiletries and household essentials.
A bat found in a Piscataway home has tested positive for rabies, marking the third confirmed rabid animal in the township and the sixth in Middlesex County this year, county health officials said in a news release.On Monday, Aug. 11, a resident in the vicinity of River Road and Barbour Place ...
Middlesex County hopes that people will loan or donate their long-hidden historic, family treasures to the Cornelius Low House Museum, for its 2026 local Revolutionary War exhibit coming to the museum from April 2026 until December 2028.The exhibit – called “Caught in the Crossfire: Divided ...
Middlesex County has launched its innovative Bark Rangers program, inviting residents and their four-legged companions to explore the county's scenic parks through a series of engaging, dog-friendly activities.The Bark Rangers initiative encourages participants to embark on outdoor adventures with ...
WOODBRIDGE— The 2025 New Jersey Pakistan Day Parade & Festival is coming on Sunday, Aug. 24th, from Woodbridge through Edison.The colorful parade customarily attracts scores of spectators from throughout New Jersey and New York. The parade is to begin at 3 p.m. on Oak Tree Road and will end on ...
WOODBRIDGE — The Iselin-based Woodbridge Ambulance & Rescue Squad (WTARS) shut down as of 12:01 am today, citing “changes in community financial support,” its President Edward Barrett said in an email to squad members.Barrett told TAPinto Woodbridge-Carteret yesterday that the squad’s ...
Authorities are investigating a suspected double homicide in Hunterdon County after discovering the bodies of a man and a woman on Saturday afternoon in the Pittstown section of Franklin Township. Hours later, a New Jersey state trooper believed to be connected to the killings was found dead in a ...
NEWARK — Carteret and East Brunswick are Middlesex County’s only two towns to qualify as “film-ready communities,” a distinction that the NJ Motion Picture & Television Commission recently announced.New Jersey now has 43 “film-ready” communities, the commission said.This, after the state ...
Middlesex County has launched its new Junior Rangers program—a free, interactive initiative that encourages children and families to explore the county’s vibrant parks and open spaces through hands-on learning and outdoor adventures. Recommended for kids 4-10, the program introduces participants to ...
EAST BRUNSWICK — The 87th Annual Middlesex County Fair will kick off on Monday, Aug. 4, and run through Sunday, Aug. 10, offering a weeklong celebration of agriculture, entertainment, and community at the Middlesex County Fairgrounds in East Brunswick.Families can expect classic fair attractions, ...
The Middlesex County Office of Health Services reports a raccoon tested positive for rabies in the Township of Piscataway, Middlesex County, near Greenwood Dr. and Cedarwood Dr. This is the fourth rabid animal reported within Middlesex County for 2025 and the first rabid animal in Piscataway. On ...
WOODBRIDGE — Local officials honored nine student winners of a “Don’t Get Vaped In” a poster and public service announcement contest, the final piece of a yearlong campaign to raise youngsters’ awareness about the health dangers of vaping.The yearlong campaign was a collaborative effort between the ...
WOODBRIDGE — The township has rededicated Cypress II Recreation Park in Port Reading to honor the late Vincent R. Martino, a former Middlesex County freeholder and Woodbridge councilman who died in 2023 at age 88.The Vincent R. Martino Memorial Park, as it will now be known, is off West Avenue in ...
The National Weather Service has issued a “flood watch” to start at 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, for Middlesex County and six other counties, with another round of showers and thunderstorms expected to bring heavy downpours.Wednesday’s storms may drop up to 2 inches of rain or more, within a 1- to ...
EDISON — Federal agents detained at least 20 alleged “undocumented aliens” during last week’s surprise raid at a Heller Park liquor warehouse near the Middlesex College campus, a US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson has confirmed.On Tuesday, July 8th, three-dozen armed agents from the US ...
TRENTON — The NJ Attorney General’s Office has released dramatic police body-camera videos from a June 13, 2024, gunfight at a hotel in the Fords section of Woodbridge that ended in a suspect’s death and two cops getting wounded.The fatal shooting happened at the Raritan Hotel, near Royal Albert’s ...
WOODBRIDGE — The Police Department’s 15th annual Eric Ransom Junior Police Academy graduated 47 youngsters from its first 2025 summer session at a ceremony featuring police brass and municipal officials.The Eric Ransom Junior Police Academy is unlike any other in New Jersey. It is rigorous and ...
TRENTON — Police departments from 19 Middlesex County law enforcement agencies had no reported disciplinary actions taken against their officers in 2024, according to the latest NJ Attorney General’s Office’s report.In New Jersey, the Attorney General’s 2024 report says that 644 major discipline ...
WOODBRIDGE — The township Police Department has made two key promotions and Mayor John E. McCormac recently honored a host of officers with proclamations for their law enforcement achievements.Joining Mayor McCormac at a June 26th ceremony was Police Director Joseph Nisky and Capt. Brian Murphy, ...
Melissa Ruiz, a graduate of the Middlesex College Nursing Program, has been elected to serve as the Class of 2025 student representative to the Middlesex College Board of Trustees for the academic year 2025-2026.Each year, Middlesex College graduating students recommend and vote for a member of ...