TOP LOCAL News
By VICTORIA DAVIS
June 24, 2024
EDISON, NJ - The Edison Public Library, in its effort to meet the needs of the community, will be extending its hours of operation. Beginning next month, all three Edison Public Library buildings will be open an hour later on Friday and Saturday evenings with the Main Library also opening an ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The nurses and staff members at RWJBarnabas Health’s Bristol Myers Squib Children’s Hospital and Children’s Specialized Hospital did crafts and played card games like Skip-Bo with Ariana McGuire during her recovery from surgery, after a wayward arrow struck her between the eyes, cut ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – With school out for the summer, Piscataway families now have summer vacations, barbecues, swimming, and fireworks to look forward to attending. As June starts to come to an end, township officials announced the annual Independence Day fireworks festival returns to Piscataway ...
NEW JERSEY -- The State of New Jersey was found to be the 4th best state for working dads in 2024, according to a study by WalletHub. The personal finance website ranked all 50 states, including the District of Columbia, by a total score based on each state's ranking within the following ...
CARTERET, NJ — The borough Police Department is mourning the recent death of retired K-9 ‘Officer’ Ukon, a German Shepherd who served the community with distinction alongside handler Sgt. Antonio M. Dominguez. In a poignant June 19th Facebook post, Carteret Policemen’s Benevolent Association ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Many times, residents only see firefighters on their way to an emergency or knocking down the flames in a house or a building fire. Sometimes it’s when the departments have shined up their trucks and equipment to put on display in a Memorial Day Parade or park in the driveways of ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A Piscataway college student has been named to Syracuse University’s Dean’s List for the Spring 2024 semester. Samuel Irwin, a student in the university’s Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics achieved a 3.4 grade point average or better and received a certificate of ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – To help raise funds for his Eagle Project, Derek Lopez, a Boy Scout in Piscataway Troop 67 will host a car wash fundraiser on Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the River Road Fire Company. The fire company is located at 102 Netherwood Ave. in Piscataway. Proceeds from ...
EDISON, NJ - An estimated 100 facilities are currently affected by a water main break along Oak Tree Road from Dayton Drive to Peru Street, according to Edison Mayor Sam Joshi. This includes an assisted living facility and a number of businesses. Joshi says repairs are expected to take 12 to 15 ...
NJ's 6th DISTRICT -- In light of new reports of Amtrak service disruptions, U.S. Rep Frank Pallone Jr. (D, NJ-06) expressed his outrage with the current state of Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT rail service, calling the recent disruptions "utterly unacceptable." “Commuters have faced an appalling week, ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ - Since arriving in the borough one month ago, Marco the K9 therapy dog has emerged as a four-legged rock star. The four-month-old Golden Retriever, accompanied by his partner, Officer Nicole BeBiase, continues to undergo training with the American Kennel Society and DeBiase. He ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ – A Piscataway High School freshman is among three students to win a 2024 Youth Volunteer Award from the New Jersey Sharing Network (NJSN). Dhivyasree Manimaran, now a rising sophomore at PHS was recognized at NJSN’s Volunteer Recognition Awards reception for her efforts ...
NEWARK — The Board of Education is demanding the school district get to the bottom of how a video of thong-wearing women promoting a now-canceled “Nuttin’ But Azz” basketball game was filmed in the gymnasium of West Side High School. At a meeting on Tuesday, school board members voiced their ...
CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey is home again. After getting fresh coats of paint on its hull and other maintenance in the Philadelphia shipyard dry dock, the Camden tourist attraction on Thursday was pushed up the river by tugboats and reunited in the early afternoon with its berth on the ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - Middlesex County’s annual Music-in-the-Park summer concert series is back for the 2024 season with shows by some of the finest musicians in the County! Spend your summer evenings enjoying free live music at one of Middlesex County’s many picturesque parks. All you need to ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – East Brunswick Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Victor Valeski released the findings Wednesday of an independent investigation into why the high school's yearbook showed no names and the wrong picture for the Jewish Student Union. Instead, the photo attached to the group ...
NEWARK — Survivors of domestic violence incarcerated because they attacked their abusers and people serving lengthy jail sentences because they exercised their right to trial, are among the categories of people who may be offered clemency under an executive order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy on ...
SEA GIRT, NJ – The Sea Girt governing body introduced and approved Resolution R-126-2024 at the June 12th council meeting opposing the instillation of wind turbines and the planned transmission lines that will run from the ocean and through Sea Girt, Manasquan, Wall Township, and Howell. In ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ – Somerset County will honor 18 US Colored Troops (USCT) who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War and are buried in Somerville’s New Cemetery at its fourth annual Juneteenth celebration on Wednesday, June 19. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. on the steps of the Historic ...
CAMDEN – The CEO of Camden-based Michaels Organization, a residential real estate developer, has taken a leave of absence the day after he was indicted with five others in what the state Attorney General is calling the “Norcross Enterprise.” At the center of the indictment was Democratic Party ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Piscataway High School honored and celebrated the Class of 2024 on Tuesday, June 18, at an impressive 64th Annual Commencement Ceremony at Jersey Mike's Arena on the Rutgers University campus. The 507 graduates finished their high school careers before thousands of friends, ...
TRENTON, NJ — The N.J. Attorney General’s Office released initial details about a man’s apparent suicide after observant Woodbridge Township police officers stopped his van outside a Route 9 gas station on Friday, June 14th. Woodbridge police officers conducted a motor vehicle stop at 6:30 p.m.
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — The New Jersey Hall of Fame unveiled its Entertainment and Learning Center at American Dream on Tuesday, June 18, before a crowd of supporters, elected officials, including Gov. Phil Murphy and State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, and inductees Tommy James, comedian Joe ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – June 19 marks the date in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger and Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to alert the slaves there that, by federal decree, their freedom had been ordered. The visit came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued ...
TRENTON – Walmart has agreed to pay $1.64 million to resolve allegations that the chain repeatedly engaged in unlawful unit pricing practices at its 64 retail stores throughout the state, announced Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“Division”). The ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ -- Piscataway police have advised residents that due to power outages in the township, the Senior Center was opened as a cooling center on Tuesday. Residents in need of cooling relief can go to the Senior Center, 700 Buena Vista Ave. behind the Piscataway Public Library - JFK ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - Lights, camera action! The EB Indie film Festival will be hosting their fourth annual film festival inside the East Brunswick Community Arts Center on Saturday, August 3 at 12 PM. It’s the biggest event of the year for people of all ages to enjoy short films created by emerging ...
METUCHEN, NJ – The YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge & South Amboy has announced that the 2024 Ryan Patterson Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Caden Leung of Piscataway. The Ryan Patterson Memorial Scholarship was established in 2012 in honor of late 27-year-old Metuchen Branch ...
NEW JERSEY — Temperatures are expected to climb to 86 degrees today and 89 degrees on Friday. The American Red Cross is reminding you to take care of your pets in the heat. Pet owners should provide open access to clean and fresh water and shade and cool surfaces (not carpet), exercising in the ...
CAMDEN – Democratic Party kingpin George E. Norcross III was on a conference call negotiating with the developer of the Victor Lofts condos, which held an easement on the view of the Camden waterfront that was impeding a Norcross development. In this remarkable business conversation, Norcross ...