Rahway Top Stories
By DAVID BRIGHOUSE
March 26, 2023
RAHWAY, NJ — TAPinto Rahway just sat down with the Rahway High School (RHS) varsity wrestling team's head coach, Daniel Garay. He furnished us with a wrap-up of the season. There were notable successes to report for both the RHS athletes and the coaches. Some of the highlights appear ...
RAHWAY, NJ — On Friday, March 17, Roosevelt Elementary School was visited by Deputy U.S. Marshal William Uhler and his partner, Grover, an Explosives Detection K-9. Grover is a two-year-old black Labrador Retriever, who was originally bred to complete Guiding Eyes for the Blind (GEB) training in ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Rahway's Franklin Elementary School recently implemented the "Building the Thinking Classroom in Mathematics" approach into its mathematics curriculum in an effort to enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills among students. The "Building the Thinking Classroom in ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Back in May, during Rahway High School's (RHS) male empowerment "Tied to Greatness" event, TAPinto Rahway reported that, in an impromptu moment, the male mentors in the room committed to purchasing suits for all the young men in the room who indicated they didn't own one. Just this ...
RAHWAY, NJ — I've said it before. If you want to surround yourself with some pretty terrific people, you could do far worse than find out where all the volunteers and other charitable, generous types hang out and head over there immediately. Such was the case Wednesday evening, March 22, at The ...
RAHWAY, NJ — This Sunday, March 26, the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC), located at 1601 Irving St. in downtown Rahway, will present "Funny Women of a Certain Age," a standup comedy event featuring Leighann Lord, Kerri Louise, and the show's founder Carole Montgomery. The show begins at ...
RAHWAY, NJ — For this year's Black History Month celebration at Rahway High School (RHS), two of the school's newest theater teachers, Zachary Love and Emma Barakat, organized a special event, a living wax museum, involving a number of the school's talented and enthusiastic students. The gathering ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Today, Thursday, March 23, there will be an event at the Gateway Family YMCA in Rahway, 9 a.m. to noon, located at 1564 Irving St. It will include a community resource table sponsored by the New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund (NJCAEF). TAPinto Rahway has introduced you to the ...
RAHWAY, NJ — The Rahway Board of Education (BOE) met on Tuesday evening, March 21, at Rahway High School (RHS) for its general monthly meeting. A number of agenda items were approved over the course of the two-hour meeting. Several student showcases, celebrating past achievements as well as ...
RAHWAY, NJ — TAPinto Rahway first wrote about the Grover Cleveland Elementary School Wrestling Club back in October. At the time, we reported that the team was in its second year, under the leadership of Coach Aaron Landy, and boasted over 30 students, both boys and girls, between grades ...
RAHWAY, NJ — There will be a Health and Wellness Family Night at the Rahway 7th and 8th Grade Academy on Thursday, March 23, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The evening will include sports, yoga, and other mindfulness activities and practices. The event will take place in the student cafeteria of ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Rahway Munch Madness is back! The ever popular event is set to take place this Saturday, March 25, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Rahway Recreation Center, located at 275 E. Milton Ave. The event is part carnival, part DJ dance party, and, well, all madness. It will no doubt include fun ...
RAHWAY, NJ — When TAPinto Rahway reported on Rahway High School's (RHS) Claw program about a month ago, the response was overwhelming. Readers enjoyed the article and, more importantly, expressed their support and approval of the high school program, run by teachers Trish Evanik and Carly ...
RAHWAY, NJ — On March 2, aerospace engineer and Rahway High School (RHS) 2007 graduate Eric Peters returned to his hometown for induction into the most recent class of Rahway's Own. He, along with other inductees, met for a brief reception preceding the formal recognition during Rahway's State of ...
RAHWAY, NJ — On Monday, March 20, Rahway's Madison Elementary School went into a Shelter-in-Place, as several students fell ill, bringing out medical services, Rahway's new police director, Nicholas Breiner, Mayor Raymond Giacobbe, Acting Superintendent Dr. Aleya Shoieb, and Board of Education ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Ms. Carol Troia teaches kindergarten in Rahway's Madison Elementary School. You've met her before, right here in the pages of TAPinto Rahway, when we wrote back in October about a special guest who came to her classroom, a friend and Rahway alumnus, who had recently published a book ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Every February, we as a nation pause to celebrate, remember, and acknowledge the contributions of African Americans to this country. The students and staff at Grover Cleveland Elementary School turned things up a notch this year, adding a twist to their Black History Month ...
March 2, 2022 — TAPinto Rahway originally published this article in 2021 for Women's History Month. [This is the first part of a two-part account of a little-known historical moment in the women's suffrage movement that involved Rahway. TAPinto Rahway will, from time-to-time, as part of its ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Join the Rahway Public School District's Early Childhood Education Department this Wednesday, March 22, for a very special event. A Family Storytime STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Night will take place in the student cafeteria of the 7th and 8th ...
RAHWAY, NJ — This Wednesday, March 22, Gaelic Storm and the High Kings will perform at the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC), located at 1601 Irving St. in downtown Rahway. Since we can't say it any better than UCPAC already has, we'll let you rely on its rather interesting description ...
RAHWAY, NJ — TAPinto Rahway reported earlier that Relay for Life of Rahway's March 4th "Dancing Thru the Eras" dinner and dance party was being postponed. It is now officially rescheduled! The new date is Friday, April 14, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., at the American Legion Post #5 in Rahway, ...
RAHWAY, NJ — There will be a Rahway Board of Education (BOE) general meeting this Tuesday, March 21, in the Rahway High School Performing Arts Center (Auditorium). This is a location change. As a point of clarification, the BOE meetings officially open at 6 p.m. but are immediately recessed to ...
RAHWAY, NJ — On Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m., the Rahway River Watershed Association (RRWA) will host an online presentation called "Green Infrastructure 101." Jennifer Duckworth, an RRWA trustee and senior environmental engineer for Tetra Tech, will run the workshop. This free, interactive ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Zion Lutheran Church, located at 215 Elm Ave. in Rahway, has been hosting Operation Warm Heart, a homeless ministry, in partnership with the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless, since December 25, 2013. We began on Christmas Day because of the story of Jesus’ birth from the ...
RAHWAY, NJ — TAPinto Rahway honestly receives so much news coming out of Franklin Elementary School that it's really hard to keep up. The latest involves sixth-grade members of the school's Technology Club who recently participated in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activity ...
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Dorothy Parker RAHWAY, NJ — If TAPinto Rahway were to tell you that there is a local journalist in town, working for a well-known publishing company, this might not appear, on the face of it, as particularly stunning news. If ...
RAHWAY, NJ — At approximately 9:55 p.m., Wednesday evening, the Rahway Police Department had announced that New Brunswick Avenue was closed from East Inman Ave. to Saint Georges Ave. due to an accident. The Rahway PD sent another advisory, at approximately 12:30 a.m., informing the public that ...
RAHWAY, NJ — At approximately 9:55 p.m., the Rahway Police Department announced that New Brunswick Avenue was closed from East Inman Ave. to Saint Georges Ave. due to an accident. The Rahway PD said that the road was expected to be closed for approximately an hour and a half and recommended ...
RAHWAY, NJ — Is it actually even possible that it was already nearly a year ago that TAPinto Rahway last reported on the "Mugs of Love" program at Franklin Elementary School, organized by the school's service organization, the Blue and Gold Club? Well, yes, it's not only possible but turns out to ...
RAHWAY, NJ — TAPinto Rahway wants to remind you that Dr. W. Adrian Davis, a Rahway resident who owns and operates a Sylvan Learning Center, is ready to help you and your children find academic success. Dr. Davis was prominently featured in an article we ran last year about him, his family, and what ...