PATERSON, NJ — Just a day after municipal employees received a memo from Mayor André Sayegh indicating their paychecks could arrive late, Paterson’s City Council authorized a $21 million appropriation to avoid a local government shutdown at an emergency meeting Tuesday evening.

The last-second action enables over 1,400 workers to collect their pay on schedule for the next ...

TRENTON, NJ - While a Florida Lottery ticketholder won the $285.6 million Powerball jackpot  from the Saturday, June 5, drawing, one Paterson player matched four out of five white balls and the Powerball drawn winning the $50,000 third-tier prize. 

That winning ticket, lottery officials say, was sold at Joe’s Liquor Store, 328 11th Ave.

The winning numbers for the ...

LITTLE FALLS, NJ - Caroline is this week's Save The Animals Rescue Team's (START) Pet of the Week.

Caroline likes staring out the window and dislikes the warlock’s curse that transformed her into a black cat! Caroline thinks that some superstitious people do not like black cats.

Her foster mom reassures her every day that black cats are very sweet and very lovable, ...

PATERSON, NJ - Like many businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters have taken a hit by the vacancy of moviegoers. Fabian 8 Cinema in Paterson was among the many movie theaters that closed down due to Governor Murphy’s executive order. 

Tom Arnold, General Manager at Fabian 8 Cinema in Center City Mall, as well as the rest of his employees, were furloughed. 

“We ...

PATERSON, NJ – Despite continued concerns regarding the readiness of some of the buildings and classrooms levied by the Paterson Education Association (PEA), a group of Paterson Public Schools students returned to in-person learning for the first time since March 16, 2020 on Tuesday.

In a statement highlighting the completion of the first phase of the district’s reopening plan ...

PATERSON, NJ - Despite the hardships 2020 and 2021 presented to the community, four local women followed in the footsteps of their ancestors and worked to give back to their city through educational achievements.

This year, women in the Taylor-Freeman family of Paterson graduated from various institutions of higher education.  Charisse Taylor, chief program officer of Girl Scouts of ...

PATERSON, NJ - In one of the most historic, and nail-biting, Presidential elections in the nation’s history, Peruvian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo currently holds a .2% narrow lead against candidate Keiko Fujimori.

This past Sunday more than 20,000 Peruvian voters cast their votes at the Meadowlands Exposition Center. Prior to election day, there was continued fierce ...

WAYNE, NJ - More than 100 hospital personnel including administrators, surgeons, doctors, and nurses, convened in the main lobby of St. Joseph's Wayne Medical Center to debut a new member of their team Wednesday. However, the star of the show was not any of the highly experienced medical professionals but rather a state of the art technological marvel- a robot.

Even the ...

NEW BRUSWICK, NJ — As vaccination rates increase and prospects of normal life return more than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, New Jerseyans differ on various aspects of this “new normal” and how comfortable they feel, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.

Almost all New Jerseyans support (63% “strongly,” 24% “somewhat”) fully ...

PATERSON, NJ - Paterson individuals and families with low and moderate incomes now have new advocates- in the form of trained FEC counselors- to help them manage their finances, pay down debt, increase savings, establish and build credit, and access safe and affordable mainstream banking products.

On Monday Mayor Andre Sayegh and the United Way of Passaic County announced the launch of the ...

PATERSON, NJ - An $820,000 award from the NJ Department of Transportation will make the area around the Great Falls more walkable, Mayor Andre Sayegh announced Thursday. It will also add to the aesthetic appeal of the area officials hope will continue to attract visitors as a means of spurring the much heralded renaissance of Paterson. 

“This is where Paterson was born,” ...

WOODLAND PARK, NJ - While COVID may have stopped the annual Families Behind the Badge softball tournament last year, the event was back in full force Saturday morning and was a great success, raising the highest amount ever. 

Ten teams of North Jersey law enforcement officers battled it out for the title, which was won this year by the Paterson PBA. Other teams included Woodland ...

PATERSON, NJ - Three Paterson residents between the ages of 24 and 30 were struck by gunfire while in the area of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Keen Street just before 5:00 p.m. Saturday. The victims, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said, arrived at Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center via private vehicles for treatment of non-fatal ...

PATERSON, NJ - A Wayne man involved in the fatal car crash on August 9 that claimed the life of Gustavo Marte 58, Paterson, has been indicted

According to a statement Asante Cugliari, 22, is charged with two counts of Death by Auto, Second Degree, and Strict Liability Vehicular Homicide, Third Degree. Cugliari faces up to 10 years in jail on the most serious ...

CLIFTON, NJ - Law enforcement officials are seeking information in a hit-and-run crash that occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday near 395 Route 3 East, in Clifton.

According to Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi, Clifton police officers responded to the area at approximately 8:13 a.m. in response to a report of a body in the ...

EWING, NJ -- Several World War II aircraft will be flying into Trenton-Mercer Airport this week for tourists to view. The CAF AirPower History Tour featuring historic World War II aircraft will provide cockpit tours, flight demonstrations, and rides.  

The event features the B-29 Superfortress FIFI, the most advanced bomber of World War II; the T-6 Texan, legendary ...

Beech-Nut Nutrition has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of Beech-Nut Stage 1, Single Grain Rice Cereal. The recall resulted from a routine sampling program from the production lot of Beech-Nut Stage 1, Single Grain Rice Cereal which tested above the guidance level for naturally occurring inorganic arsenic.

The product being recalled was distributed nationally, online and retail with the ...

PATERSON, NJ - Paterson’s Sync Fitness, a veteran owned training studio, is celebrating the achievements of four of their athletes that each earned high results over the weekend in the Organization of Competition Bodies (OCB) natural bodybuilding competition. The OCB competition, held in Atlantic City, was the first one to feature live stage performance and an audience since the COVID-19 ...

CLIFTON, NJ  – Passaic Valley Water Commission (PVWC) is committed to removing lead service lines.

PVWC is New Jersey’s largest public drinking water provider, serving over 800,000 consumers in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties. PVWC is continuously checking for and removing lead service lines for its consumers, free of ...

TRENTON, NJ - Legislation spearheaded by Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly (D-Paterson) and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City) to increase housing opportunities for previously convicted individuals was approved by the New Jersey General Assembly Thursday by a vote of 45-16-5.

The bill, named the “Fair Chance in Housing Act,” would restrict a housing provider from requiring a ...