TOP LOCAL News
By TAPINTO PISCATAWAY STAFF
August 3, 2024
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Kick off Labor Day Weekend with Rutgers football and fireworks at SHI Stadium! Rutgers Athletics is offering Piscataway Township families special $20 tickets for the Rutgers vs. Howard football game on Thursday, August 29th. The offer is part of their "Hello Neighbor" program, ...
NUTLEY, NJ - When Mayor John V. Kelly III said "Nutley is a destination, not a stop along the way," Beyonce must have heard him because she was in town this week filming a commercial for Levi's jeans at a local laundromat. Beyoncé and Levi's are not strangers. When she was part of Destiny's ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ - The Piscataway Board of Education consists of nine board members elected by the residents of the Township of Piscataway. Each board member serves a three-year term, and every November, three seats come up for election. According to the Middlesex County Clerk, six residents have ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- Scotch Plains author Joe Dinicola recently published his new children's book, "Jordan and the Fosters," the story of a dog named Jordan who tries to fit in with his new family, the Fosters. The book includes elements of his own life, as Jordan is named after one of Dinicola's ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Westfield Day Care Center was evacuated Thursday after a drip tray from an air conditioning unit fell through the ceiling and into a classroom. At first officials thought they were responding to a possible partial roof collapse. Firefighters arrived at the scene at about 1:25 ...
Princeton, NJ – Things are looking up: The heat wave has passed, at least temporarily. The forecast is for temperatures “only” in the mid-80s for the next week or so. And we have had our needed rain storm. Biden has dropped out and we have a whole new contest. That heavy humid cloud that was in ...
NEWARK – A New Brunswick man who authorities say was part of a trafficking organization responsible for distributing bulk quantities of fentanyl in New Brunswick and other municipalities is heading to prison. Kenneth Strickland, 57, was found guilty Monday for his role in a conspiracy to ...
NEWARK — Tension is growing between the state's largest Latino-led organization and a national fast food restaurant franchisor approved to build a chicken restaurant in place of a Burger King on Broadway. Citing concerns about the decision-making process that led to the Central Planning Board’s ...
I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand To have someone understand. I want so much more than they've got planned. Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" EAST ...
JERSEY SHORE, NJ - As we enter August and the nights start getting darker earlier, we are reminded that summer at the Shore is coming to an end sooner rather than later. Now is the time to experience all that the Gold Coast area has to offer, with plenty of activities and events for couples, ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A mid-afternoon fire broke out at the Avalon apartment community in Piscataway on Thursday, displacing residents in multiple units. No injuries were reported. While the official cause of the fire is under investigation, police at the scene described it as a mulch fire that ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The FBI finally tracked down a Trinidadian man wanted for 15 years in connection with the 2009 gunpoint robbery of a Woodbridge steakhouse where $150,000 was stolen, and workers were menaced. FBI agents arrested 51-year-old suspect Kofi Edwards in Sacramento, Ca., where he was ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Members of the Sigma Chi fraternity returned to their house on Hardenberg Street on Wednesday to find a burglary in progress. When confronted, two burglars left with what was described in a Rutgers University Police Department press release as “items of value.” Police said the ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - Describing the creative process is daunting, as creativity is something that someone has or feels. However, the process of creating is a different matter. East Brunswick's Kathleen Elle has expanded and explored her own process of getting ideas into words and music; recording ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ - More hot weather is headed our way this week. Piscataway is under a heat advisory from 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, the National Weather Service said. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has also issued a Code Orange Air Quality Action ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Councilwoman Suzanne Sicora-Ludwig pleaded not guilty Wednesday in her first court appearance since being charged with DWI and other charges stemming from a one-vehicle accident on March 8. Highland Park Municipal Judge Edward Herman, who will hear the case, ended the 9-minute ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — A disk that is part of a temporary installation by the late artist Seward Johnson is being put back in its place in Mindowaskin Park after it was thrown into the pond Monday evening, Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro said. The disk accompanies a lifelike statue of a ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - It's that wonderful time of year again - the Middlesex County Fair is coming to town. This time, focus on the farms and the farmers a bit - the gorgeous fresh foods and the animal visits under the loving - yet watchful eyes - of the 4-H youth. The County Fair runs from Monday, ...
NEW JERSEY - The State of New Jersey was ranked as having the least at-risk youth in the nation in 2024, according to a study done by WalletHub. The personal finance website found that the youth in New Jersey were at the least risk, compared to all 50 states and the District of Columbia, of ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Carolyn Hoffmann Walezak, a member of South Plainfield’s Class of 2000, got her first ‘real’ job the summer before her senior year of high school. Fast forward 25 years, and the borough native has been working at the same company ever since. Back in 1999, Walezak was just ...
Leer en español NEWARK — The memories of fallen firefighter captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were fresh in the minds of family, colleagues and friends on Tuesday morning as the city dedicated two Ironbound firehouses in their honor. Family members pulled black ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ- Rainbows are being brightened across Jersey City crosswalks ahead of the City’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month in August, first in front of City Hall in Downtown last week and now in front of the Hudson Pride Center in Journal Square this past Saturday, July 27. While June is recognized ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Mid-July weather conditions forced organizers to postpone Piscataway’s annual bike rodeo to Tuesday evening, and change the location to the parking lot of the Little League Complex which allowed for a contained area for dozens of young riders to learn how to ride their bicycles and ...
WASHINGTON – The recall of Boar’s Head deli meats has been expanded to approximately 7 million pounds of deli meat and poultry products. The updated recall issued by Boar’s Head Provisions Co in Jarratt, VA, includes additional “ready to eat” meat and poultry products due to possible Listeria ...
TRENTON, NJ — A state grand jury has indicted two Middlesex County men for allegedly swindling investors out of roughly $6.7 million, and using that money for their own benefit. The grand jury indicted Wilfredo Topacio, 64, of Woodbridge, and Shahid Javed, 39, of Old Bridge, on criminal charges ...
EDISON, NJ - Applications for vendors and performers are available for Edison Township’s third annual Diwali Festival. The annual festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 26, from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Lake Papaianni. For vendor applications, click here. For performer applications, click ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — First, there was a loud “boom.” Then flames. That was how one neighbor, former councilman Mark LoGrippo, described the scene on Tudor Oval Monday, July 29, at about 10:15 p.m. “We were in the kitchen and all the sudden we heard a ‘boom,’” said LoGrippo, who lives two doors ...
CHATHAM, NJ -- It started out as way to help the elderly keep their minds sharp and has since spread to become an award-winning card game that exercises the mathematical minds of all ages. No one wants to think about going back to school in July. Still, teenage sisters Aria and Oma Makhija had ...
SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ — Six people have been charged in connection with home and motor vehicle burglaries in Bernards Township, Bernardsville, and Green Brook, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of County Detectives Francisco Roman Jr., Bernards ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The gardening giant Burpee opened the doors to its Doylestown estate on Saturday, and people came out in droves. The once-a-year event is always popular, but turnout this year seemed to be particularly high. The roads around the New Britain Road location of Fordhook Farm around ...