TOP LOCAL News
By TOM MUGAVERO
January 9, 2026
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - P what? P’BURG!!! That’s something you’ll hear chanted a lot while watching Phillipsburg High School bowl. Both the boy’s and the girl’s teams.It’s been a team-effort for the Stateliners boy’s team this season as they won their 10th straight match to start the season on Thursday ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Matt Romero, Nick Berger and Brody Cullen each won a pair of individual events to pace the undefeated Phillipsburg High School boy’s swimming team to a 95-75 victory over Bernards in a Skyland Conference meet on Wednesday.Romero won the 50-freestyle in :24.60 and the ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School girl’s swimming team won just two individual races and needed a team-effort to down Bernards, 90-80, in a Skyland Conference meet on Wednesday.Kaitlyn Murphy won the 500-freestyle in 6:06.54 and was followed to the wall by teammates Samantha Fares and ...
NEWARK - The historic Cathedral House, a former rectory on the New Jersey Performing Arts Center campus that served as the stage for the 1967 National Black Power Conference, will be demolished despite strong public concern that the move will erode historic preservation in Newark.Written promises ...
RAMSEY, NJ — Public school districts across New Jersey will have to come up with a plan to ban student cell phone use for the entire school day by the start of the 2026-2027 school year under a new law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday.“With today’s bill signing, we are ensuring New Jersey ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - With assistance from the public, the Phillipsburg Police Department announced the arrest of a previously wanted man. According to the department’s official Facebook page, officers were dispatched at approximately 2:30 a.m. on July 5, 2025, to the 500 block of Fisher Avenue in ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Mason Hawk hit the mat for the last bout of the evening with the weight of the world on him. Either he wins or Phillipsburg High School loses back-to-back home matches for the first time in 15 seasons.The sophomore came through with a resounding 8-0 major decision at 150-pounds ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – The Phillipsburg Board of Education began a new year during its annual reorganization meeting on Wednesday, January 7, 2025, at the district's Education Center on Sargent Avenue. With newly elected members taking their oaths, failure to elect a Board President and Vice-President, ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Seniors Joe Rasley and Teneezee Boyah along with junior Gabriel Gatela all registered career-highs to help lead the rampaging Phillipsburg High School boys bowling team to another 7-0 victory, this time against Belvidere, in a Skyland Conference match on Tuesday afternoon.Rasely ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Junior forward Naziyah Randolph tallied a career-high 16 points to lead the Phillipsburg High School girl’s basketball team to its second victory of the season, 46-40, over host Ridge on Tuesday night in a Skyland Conference game.“Naziyah played the best game of her career,” ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Massimo Gonzalez is a four-year varsity wrestler at Phillipsburg High School who struggled as a freshman before emerging as one of the best grapplers on the team by his senior season.His two victories on Saturday helped the Stateliners sweep the Cranford Duals in their first two ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School led Howell 23-13 after the first seven bouts of the night before the Rebels came back to win six of the final seven in posting a 46-29 victory in a non-conference wrestling match on Monday at the ‘Pit’ at the Phillipsburg Middle School. There wasn’t one ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Town of Phillipsburg is seeking funding through the New Jersey Green Acres Program to support improvements to local parks and open spaces. As part of the application process, residents are invited to participate in a survey and are encouraged to share suggestions and ideas in ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Senior 175-pounder Gavin Geleta won both bouts to improve to 9-1 on the season to lead five Phillipsburg High School double-winners as the Stateliners wrestling team defeated Cranford, 46-22 and Old Bridge, 34-28, in the Cranford Duals on Saturday. “A lot of kids got to wrestle ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg police investigated a report that an 8-year-old child was chased by an older youth allegedly carrying a knife while walking home from school, though officers found no evidence to substantiate the claim. According to a police report obtained by TAPinto Phillipsburg ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg is moving closer to eliminating cash as a form of payment for municipal transactions. At its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 1, 2026, the Town Council unanimously approved the first reading of Ordinance 2026-01. The measure would create Chapter 390, titled “No ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - A residential fire on Bennett Street displaced eight residents and resulted in minor injuries to three people. At approximately 5:33 a.m. Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, Phillipsburg Police and EMS units were dispatched to a reported residential structure fire at 14 Bennett Street, ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg rang in 2026 with the swearing-in of newly elected and returning council members at its annual reorganization meeting, setting leadership roles and priorities focused on public service and community engagement. New Jersey Lieutenant Governor-elect Dr. Dale Caldwell, ...
NATIONAL – With venues hiking their prices significantly during New Year’s, putting a strain on people’s wallets that have already been hit hard by inflation, personal-finance company WalletHub has released its report on 2025’s Best Cities for New Year’s Celebrations.Countries across the globe ...
NEW JERSEY — Driving in New Jersey will cost more starting Jan. 1, thanks to increasing fuel taxes and highway, bridge and tunnel tolls.One fee, called the petroleum products gross receipts tax, will increase by 4.2 cents per gallon. For gasoline, that new rate will be 38.6 cents, and for diesel, ...
NEW JERSEY — Start your New Year with a bit of luck and nutritious eating. Try a few of these food-related traditions and then plan on growing a few of your own to enjoy.Eating grapes on New Year’s Eve is a Mexican culinary tradition. One grape is eaten with each stroke of midnight and is believed ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ – Every year, we make it our goal to bring you the stories you care about, and the information you need. In just three full years, we’ve grown our readership, tripled our social media presence and brought expanded coverage of local government, schools and sports from the ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Executive Education Academy Charter School overcame Phillipsburg High School’s comeback attempts in each half on the way to a 60-46 victory in the championship game of the Easton Rotary Club Holiday Classic boys’ basketball tournament on Tuesday night at Easton Middle ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Town of Phillipsburg will hold its 2026 reorganization meeting on Thursday, January 1, at noon. According to the published agenda, the meeting will begin with the swearing-in of elected councilmembers. Democratic incumbents Keith Kennedy and Vice President Lee Clark will each ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School sophomore Dominic Bracco broke out with the two best scoring games of his young career last week for the boys’ basketball team.Bracco, a 6-foot-4 forward who doubles as the school’s quarterback in football, scored a career-high 27 points in a 65-60 loss ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Phillipsburg High School overcame a late three-point deficit and scored the final seven points of the game to defeat host Easton, 49-45, in the first round of the Easton Rotary Holiday boy’s basketball tournament on Monday at the Easton Area Middle School for its first victory ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg girls basketball team faced a rivalry foe in Easton at the Jack Bennett Easton Rotary holiday tournament December 29, 2025 at Easton Middle School. Easton led the Stateliners 20-2 after the first quarter, by 36 points at halftime and never looked back to a 59-9 ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Considering the circumstances Phillipsburg High School boy’s wrestling had a great tournament at the Bethlehem Holiday Classic with a seventh-place finish while Nazareth took home first place in the team standings where a total of 30 schools competed.The Stateliners haven’t ...
NEW JERSEY – New Jersey's gas tax is set to go up on January 1, 2026.The 4.2 cents per gallon increase, State Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio announced recently, comes after “a thorough review of fuel consumption statistics"and will support the State’s Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) program.As ...
NUTLEY, NJ - When Township of Nutley Historian John Demmer first saw “A Christmas Story” in 1983, he had no idea it would become a defining part of his life. He watched the film in a theater with his girlfriend at the time — a woman who is now his wife of 40 years.“My dad drove me and my ...