MAPLEWOOD, NJ – According to information supplied by Police Chief Jim DeVaul, and reported earlier by BNN, at approximately 3:13 a.m. on August 19, the Maplewood Police Department received a frantic 911 call from a female who reported that intruders had gained entrance to her home at 7 Lombardy Place and assaulted her fiancé. She further stated that two males wearing ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – South Orange now has a drop-off box for unused prescription drugs. The box is located in the lobby of Police Headquarters at 201 South Orange Avenue. The box was officially dedicated on August 6th having been donated to the town by ADAPT, the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention Team, a division of The Essex Prevention Coalition. The Coalition is dedicated to reducing ...

Livingston, NJ – The first milk bank in New Jersey has officially opened at Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, which held a grand opening ceremony for the new Human Milk Depot and Well Baby Donor Milk Program last week. 

The project was completed in partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast, which has 27 bank members and distributed almost 6.5 million ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – South Orange now has a drop-off box for unused prescription drugs. The box is located in the lobby of Police Headquarters at 201 South Orange Avenue. The box was officially dedicated on August 6th having been donated to the town by ADAPT, the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention Team, a division of The Essex Prevention Coalition. The Coalition is dedicated to reducing ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Lead levels that tested high in a water fountain at South Mountain Elementary School are now “back to normal,” according to South Orange Maplewood School District Business Administrator Paul Roth.

The water fountain near Room 102 was taken offline last month because it tested above normal lead levels, “registering at 15.7 ppb which is above the ...

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Seton Hall University senior and WSOU 89.5 FM news director Robert Towey will co-lead a hands-on workshop at the Alternatives 2019 International Student Radio Conference, hosted at the University of Cambridge in England.

Towey, who was personally invited by the conference to participate as an instructor, is the only college student to teach a workshop at ...

ASBURY PARK, NJ – In our newest episode, HomeGrown visits Purple Glaze Donuts, an award-winning bakery on Summerfield Avenue. Open for four years in Asbury Park, the donuts are made by a mother and son team, and have already become a celebrated part of the community.

The shop opened in 2015 and began having success shortly thereafter. “We’ve slowly gotten the word out,” ...

NEW JERSEY -- Mustard Seed Children is holding a Diaper & Supply Drive event on Saturday, August 17 from 10am to 8pm at East Side High School in Paterson, New Jersey. East Side High School is located at 150 Park Avenue in Paterson. 

Mustard Seed Communities is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for the most vulnerable populations throughout the developing ...

NEWARK, NJ -- TAPintoTV recently attended the second annual VOICE Summit, the world’s largest voice-tech conference held on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. We spoke to audio post engineer Steve Lack about the changes in voice technology and how these new applications are changing the way we communicate. 

“This looks like the new frontier,” said ...

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Seton Hall University senior and WSOU 89.5 FM news director Robert Towey will co-lead a hands-on workshop at the Alternatives 2019 International Student Radio Conference, hosted at the University of Cambridge in England.

Towey, who was personally invited by the conference to participate as an instructor, is the only college student to teach a workshop at ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Kitchen a la Mode (19 South Orange Avenue) is one stop to make as you prepare your daughter or son for the coming year away from home at school. Cat Fisher and her staff have a varied selection of everyday essentials for use in the kitchen as well as during the day away from their abode and are ready to assist in selecting the appropriate items.

Here’s ...

Just five weeks after a fire ripped through Hobby's Deli in Newark, the landmark downtown eatery fully reopened for business, proving that if you rebuild it, they will come. 

"It's not a celebration - it's a relief," said Marc Brummer, co-owner of Hobby's, as he walked around attending to customers on Tuesday when the dining room reopened after a blaze burned the ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A Middlesex County Superior Court judge has apologized for his conduct during a family court hearing in January in which he told a woman, who was seeking to have suggestive photos of herself returned, that she should sell photos of herself to Hugh Hefner.

Judge Alberto Rivas is facing charges of violating the judicial code by making the comments during a hearing on Jan.

MAPLEWOOD, NJ - Paving on Maplewood Avenue is scheduled to continue on Monday, Aug. 12.

Work is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m., near the Able Baker on the west side of the walkway between Lenox Place and Baker Street, township officials announced in an email alert to residents.

Parking will be restricted near where construction is being done.

Work is scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Lead levels that tested high in a water fountain at South Mountain Elementary School are now “back to normal,” according to South Orange Maplewood School District Business Administrator Paul Roth.

The water fountain near Room 102 was taken offline last month because it tested above normal lead levels, “registering at 15.7 ppb which is above the ...

BLOOMFIELD, NJ – Amid controversy among several parents, educators, and some board members, the Bloomfield Board of Education voted 4-1 to pass a resolution to move the school board election from November to April.

The vote was held during a special, last-minute, public meeting held Friday evening, Aug. 9 at the School Administration Building. The change is effective for the current ...

SUMMIT, NJ - He hasn't slept in his own bed for 14 months and, in his own words, "his body is shot", but Brent Bundy is set to complete the sixth edition of something most folks couldn't even contemplate doing -- riding across the United States on a bicycle.

Bundy doesn't do it for fun or fitness, rather the 'Tour de America' treks are labors ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Lead levels that tested high in a water fountain at South Mountain Elementary School are now “back to normal,” according to South Orange Maplewood School District Business Administrator Paul Roth.

The water fountain near Room 102 was taken offline last month because it tested above normal lead levels, “registering at 15.7 ppb which is above the ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — It was quite the price cut for the “Westfield Watcher House.”

The former owners of the Dutch Colonial home at 657 Boulevard have sold their home for $959,000, the deed filed with the Union County Clerk’s Office shows. The Broadduses had purchased the home for $1.35 million in 2014, records show. In 2017, the couple listed the home for $1.125 ...