Community Life
By MAUREEN DOHERTY
May 10, 2021SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- St. Bartholomew Academy eighth-grade students Justin Klein and Anthony Kwiatkowski were honored for their participation in the Veteran of Foreign Wars, Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest.
On Friday, May 7, 2021,Joseph McCourt of VFW Memorial Post 10122 in Scotch Plains-Fanwood, the chairman of the contest, presented the students with a Certificate of ...
CLARK, NJ - In his free time, 22-year-old Clark native Joe DiMeo likes to work out, play with his dog, hang with some of his lifelong friends from town and play pool. All of these things might seem pretty average for a man of his age, but DiMeo can be described as anything but ordinary these days.
Lately DiMeo has been described more like a miracle of science after a ...
SOUTH RIVER, NJ -- Congresswoman U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who represents Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, has contacted senior military leaders to request that U.S. Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The 42-year-old South River, NJ, native was killed during the siege on the Capitol Building on Wednesday, Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump mob ...
NEW JERSEY – United Van Lines has released the company’s 44th Annual National Migration Study, revealing in 2020, Americans continued to move westbound and southbound – and the COVID-19 pandemic factored into and accelerated many of those decisions to move.
According to the study, which tracks the company’s exclusive data for customers’ 2020 ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- Derek Porter of BSA Troop 104 in Scotch Plains, has been elected as the National Chief, the top elected youth position, in the Order of the Arrow of the Boy Scouts of America. He beat out 42 others who ran for election on Dec. 27 and becomes the first youth National Officer from New Jersey's Patriots’ Path Council.
The Order of the Arrow is ...
SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ — New Jersey American Water sent an advisory Wednesday morning, indicating the company is now using surface water facilities to service customers in Plainfield and surrounding towns.
TAPinto Plainfield called the company, and it was explained that ground water facilities are like well water that could run dry, while surface water facilities are more like lake water ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- Scotch Plains is mourning local legend Malcolm E. Nettingham, a member of World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, who died on Monday evening just a few days before his 102nd birthday. He lived in town for almost a century and in 2014 was chosen to be the grand marshal of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Memorial Day Parade.
Mr. Nettingham was born in New ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – The Jewish Community Center (JCC)’s Camp Yachad has been a staple for the kids and families it served, as well as the most important revenue producer for the organization. For several months, it looked as if the camp might be canceled, but as JCC director Mike Goldstein said, after an “involved and thoughtful process,” the JCC found out that the ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — A peaceful protest was held in Plainfield Saturday on the steps of City Hall, with "Black Lives Matter" newly marking Watchung Avenue. Organizers and protestors took to the streets of of the Queen City "to demand justice for the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and many others murdered by the police system."
The protest, ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — As the nation protested for the twelfth day in a row, local Plainfielders gathered to hold a peaceful protest of their own. Some estimates put the number attending at a thousand. The event started at the park adjacent to the Plainfield Public Library and proceeded to City Hall, and adhering to recommendations, marchers were adorned with face masks.
Organized by ...
