South Plainfield Top Stories
By DAWN MILLER
September 3, 2025
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - South Plainfield High School's girls tennis team is ready to get the 2025-26 season started on Thursday, September 4. The Tigers open the season at home against St. Thomas Aquinas High School at Spring Lake Park. Erin Donnelly returns for her third year as the Tigers' head ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The 2025 NJ Senior Olympics returns for its 19th year – starting Friday, Sept. 5th–Sunday, Sept. 7th – with events at local parks and recreation venues. Upward of 1,400 people, 50 and older, are to compete in 23 events.Behind the NJ Senior Olympics is Pasquale “Pat” Trombetta.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - South Plainfield High School's field hockey season got rolling on Tuesday in a big way. The Tigers shut out Piscataway High School 6-0 for the team's first victory of the season at the PAL. South Plainfield was up 6-0 by the end of the second period. The Tigers also kept the ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- After reaching the sectional final in head coach Kyle Dennis' first season last year, the South Plainfield boys soccer team will open its 2025 season with a tough non-conference game at Westfield on Tuesday afternoon.The Tigers went 16-4-2, losing to Rahway in the North 2, ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - As summer inches to a close, the South Plainfield Public Library is ramping up for a sensational September. The library's popular weekly children's programs are on hiatus for September but return on Monday, October 6. Fall kids' programming kicks off on Tuesday, October 7.
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Effective the first day of the 2025-2026 academic year, anyone looking to enter South Plainfield High School (SPHS) during the school day will be required to pass a security screening.Earlier this month, an Evolv Technology security screening system, which utilizes advanced ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – The South Plainfield High School Tigers Field Hockey Team will host a Mister Softee Ice Cream Fundraiser on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the South Plainfield PAL, 1250 Maple Avenue.The event coincides with the team’s first home game of the season against ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - This season, South Plainfield High School’s varsity field hockey team is welcoming a new head coach. Kelly Watson will be taking over the reins as varsity head coach after being an assistant coach for the past three seasons. South Plainfield finished last season with an ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - It's time for Buddy Ball Soccer with the South Plainfield Recreation Department. Registration is open for this free program for kids and young adults with special needs. Participants have a blast in a non-competitive, fun environment, playing soccer. The program is for South ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Back-to-school time is in the air and South Plainfield School District students return to classes on Wednesday, September 3. To welcome students and staff back, Roosevelt Elementary School Principal Dr. Dana Karas is inviting staff, students, families and community members to ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ -- The South Plainfield football team needed a big defensive stop down the stretch to preserve its 9-7 victory over East Brunswick on opening night Thursday.Senior back Dom Massaro gave the Tigers a lead in the first quarter when he returned a punt 78 yards for a touchdown and ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ - In recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on Sunday, August 31, Middlesex County is launching a public input process to determine how opioid settlement funds should be used to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic.The County, which received funding from a national ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Be on the lookout for more cops on your streets and highways. Rest assured, they are on the lookout for you — especially if you’re driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.A greater police presence and more pop-up checkpoints are part of New Jersey’s annual “Drive ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – The South Plainfield Public Celebrations Committee (SPPCC) will host its 66th Annual Labor Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 1. This year’s parade theme, “Superheroes and Villains,” will celebrate not only the colorful characters from comic books and movies, but also the real-life ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - South Plainfield High School's boys cross-country team has big goals for the upcoming season. The Tigers are looking to win the Greater Middlesex Conference's Gold Division title for a third straight year. South Plainfield has also set its sights on qualifying for the NJSIAA ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - A South Plainfield native’s recent success on a popular television quiz show has garnered him local stardom as well as an invitation to participate in an upcoming trivia event taking place at his hometown library. On Sept. 10, former resident and recent Jeopardy! contestant ...
METUCHEN, NJ - The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 233 of New Jersey will host its annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day Vigil at Memorial Park on Essex Avenue in Metuchen during the third weekend in September. The 24-hour event to heighten awareness about service members who remain missing ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Members of the borough-based Buddha's Light International Association of New Jersey (BLIA-NJ) have, for the eighth consecutive year, stepped up to help borough students in need.This year, Sheree Lan, president of the Southern Subchapter, spearheaded the annual school supply ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Middlesex County will transport visitors back in time at the Roaring 20s Jazz Party on Sunday, September 14, at East Jersey Old Town Village in Johnson Park. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., guests can experience the glamour and energy of the 1920s with live jazz by Michael Arenella and his ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Ty Gleason was taking his first day at Rutgers in stride, methodically unloading several pairs of Nike size-13 sneakers and other personal items from his uncle’s Dodge Ram 1500 Big Horn and moving into his new digs at the Honors College. His mother, however, was feeling a swirl ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – The community is invited to a fundraiser to benefit the borough’s police benevolent association (PBA) and its efforts to give back to the community it serves. South Plainfield PBA 100 will host a Cigar Night on Saturday, Sept. 20, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Woodbridge ...
CARTERET, NJ — Two New Jersey lawmakers recently handed Carteret Mayor Daniel J. Reiman a big $2 million ceremonial check that represents money they secured in the state’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget for this borough’s long-awaited ferry service to connect Carteret to Lower Manhattan. That announcement ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Last fall was a banner season for the South Plainfield High School girls cross-country team. The Tigers finished the 2024-25 season undefeated with a 5-0 record. South Plainfield also won the Greater Middlesex Conference Gold Division title. “The girls cross-country team is ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Some of South Plainfield's youngest residents showed off their safety knowledge at the 2025 Safety Town graduation ceremonies at Roosevelt Elementary School on August 15. The program, sponsored by the South Plainfield Recreation Department, is for children entering ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Owners of New Jersey’s newest Alpha Fit Club and Paris Baguette will open this fall in the new Cloverleaf Shopping Center, at St. Georges Avenue (Route 35) and Routes 1 & 9 in Avenel.Wick Companies, LLC, the shopping center’s developer, has announced that Alpha Fit Club and ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Sprouts Farmers Market, the major new anchor store at Cloverleaf Shopping Center in Avenel, has announced plans to open its fifth New Jersey store here on Friday, Oct. 3rd, and its first store Middlesex County. To prepare for the grand opening, Sprouts Farmers Market will host a ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - STEM programs are a fabulous way for kids to keep busy this fall. The South Plainfield Recreation Department has opened up registration for two STEM programs beginning in October. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It's an integrated education ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A section of Centennial Avenue in Piscataway was shut down for a period of time on Friday night after a pedestrian was struck by a car near the entrance of the Starbucks across from Lowe’s Home Improvement. The crash happened just after 9:30 p.m. The man was left lying in the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Sheila Walters often swapped reviews of local pizza shops with Kyle Cullen.John Konrad offered to introduce him to bass fishing during one of their many lunchtime talks.Jonathan Limones remembers when Cullen turned to him for guidance as he pushed to be promoted.Memories have come ...
UNION, NJ – Hosted by the Greater Union Township Chamber of Commerce, the kick-off for the 14th Annual Mayor’s Day 5K was held Thursday evening at The AVE with Union Mayor James Bowser, event sponsors, chamber members, township officials, guests, and family and friends of the event’s beneficiary.