Community Announcements

NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Are you the winner? winning lottery ticket was sold in North Plainfield  for the Thursday, March 21 drawing. One lucky ticket matched all five numbers drawn winning the $70,422 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot.

The winning numbers were:  02, 15, 24, 27 and 38 and the XTRA number was:  03. The lucky retailer that sold the winning ticket is New ...

PLAINFIELD, NJ - The Historical Society of Plainfield will host a lecture entitled “Reclaiming Our Voice:  New Jersey’s Central Role in the Fight for Woman Suffrage” on Sunday, March 24, at 2 p.m. at the Drake House Museum.   

Carol Simon Levine will be portraying Lillian Feickert, president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920, who ...

WATCHUNG, NJ  - The Watchung Board of Education accepted the resignation at its meeting on Wednesday of board member Thomas Sicola effective immediately.  

Sicola’s term expires in December and the board has 65 days to replace him. Board president Tina Kelly read Sicola’s resignation letter at the start of the meeting, here.

“I have had increasing difficulty ...

BERNARDS TWP., NJ _ Congregation B'nai Israel in Basking Ridge, together with the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge (ISBR) will co-host a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attack on the two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that took place last week.

The "Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Tragedy and Stand Against Bigotry" is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

SOMERVILLE, NJ – Don’t be alarmed. This is only a drill.

Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, dozens of police officers from Somerset County law enforcement agencies, joined by EMS and fire service units will conduct an active-shooter response exercise at the Steeplechase Cancer Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital on Wednesday, March 20 from 7:30-10:30 ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Rutgers University announced Tuesday that it is urging students to get a vaccination against meningitis following a state Department of Health decision to declare an outbreak of the disease because of two cases on campus this winter.

"To protect the student population, we are strongly recommending that all Rutgers–New Brunswick undergraduate students and graduate ...

TRENTON, NJ – Are you the winner?  One lucky ticket matched all five numbers drawn winning the $142,342 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot from the Monday, March 11 drawing. The winning numbers were:  06, 15, 24, 27 and 38 and the XTRA number was:  02. The lucky retailer that sold the winning ticket is 7-Eleven #18141, 564 Route 22 & Westervelt Ave., North Plainfield in Somerset ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — A 70-year-old man who served as a priest, in Westfield, Kennilworth, North Bergen, and also at Oratory Prep School in Summit, who was later accused of sex abuse, was found shot dead at his home in Nevada, authorities said.

Officers found John Capparelli with a gunshot wound to his neck at his residence in Henderson, Nevada, on Saturday, a spokesperson ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ - The day couldn't have been better for the 40th Annual Morris County St. Patrick's Day Parade. The sun was shining, the bag pipes were playing and thousands of residents lined the streets to watch over 120 groups and organizations march down South Street and around the green on Saturday March 9.

This year's Grand Marshall was Father Patrick Paddy ...

MORRISTOWN, NJ -  A county tradition, the 40th annual Morris County Parade, will step off on Saturday March 9 at 12 noon in Morristown. 

The parade route will begin in the parking lot at Town Hall, travel down South Street before continuing around the Morristown Green. Marchers will go make their way around the green, on S. Park Place, E. Park Place, and N. Park Place ...