WAYNE, NJ — Assistant Superintendent of Wayne Schools, Donna Reichman announced during the past Board of Education meeting that Lafayette Elementary School has received a grant from the Community Advisory Board of Chilton Medical Center to create an outdoor wellness space for students and staff.

This $2,500 grant was awarded in response to an application filed by school guidance ...

WAYNE, NJ - New Jersey was ranked as the country's third best school system in the country, according to personal finance website WalletHub's annual list States with the Best and Worst School Systems. Only two states Massachusetts (No.1) and Connecticut (No. 2)  ranked higher New Jersey. New York (No. 14) and Pennsylvania (No. 24) finished in the top half of ranking ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Following the recent upsurge in the Delta variant of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on July 27 updated its guidance for people who have been fully vaccinated. The CDC said that while individuals can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic to reduce the risk of being infected with the Delta variant and possibly spreading it to others, wearing a mask ...

WAYNE, NJ — Last week, Judge Thomas Brogan presided over a case management hearing for Wayne’s affordable housing obligation. The Judge relies on his “Special Master” Christina Coffone to work with Wayne and the intervenors who are looking to build housing developments that include affordable housing units. She takes care of the details, helps facilitate negotiations and ...

VERONA, NJ — Thursday evening's thunderstorms touched off a tornado that was confirmed on the ground in Verona.

According to the National Weather Service, the twister was an EF-0 with maximum winds of 65 mph. EF stands for Enhanced Fujita Scale, which is used to rank a tornado’s wind speed and damage on a scale of zero to five.

The twister was on the ground for less than a ...

WAYNE, NJ — Captain Barry Turner and Chief Mike Payne, both volunteers for Packanack Lake Fire Company #5 of the Wayne Fire Department, returned this weekend from seventeen days of deployment at the devastating site of the Surfside Condominium collapse just outside of Miami. They were two members of the eighty elite first responders who made the trip as part of New Jersey Task Force-1 ...

NEWARK, NJ – In a state faced with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation, Gov. Phil Murphy aims to tackle those numbers with the establishment of a universal home nurse visitation program for newborns.

Murphy signed a landmark bill (S690) on Thursday at the Leaguers, Inc. building in Newark, giving New Jersey one of the most comprehensive and robust home visitation ...

WAYNE, NJ — St. Joseph’s Health employees will have until November 15 to achieve full vaccination under a new policy announced by the healthcare giant’s President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Slavin on Thursday.

The mandate, a statement said, reinforces St. Joseph’s commitment to patient safety, as COVID-19 variants increasingly contribute to larger volumes of ...

WAYNE, NJ -- General Manager of Lincoln of Wayne, Peter Spina, Jr., spoke with TAPintoTV about the three kinds of electric vehicles in the automotive marketplace; Hybrid, PHEV, and BEV. 

Hybrid vehicles have gas and electric engines but no plug-in charging functionality. “The system charges itself through regenerative braking,” Spina explained. “It harnesses the kinetic ...

WAYNE, NJ — Hannah Lee, a Schuyler-Colfax Middle School student was among 12 NJ high school and middle school students whose artwork placed in the NJ Child Support Teen Media contest. Her piece, entitled Stargazing won third place in the hand drawn/hand painted category for middle schools.

The theme of the contest was celebrating the support of family, friends and loved ones during ...

WAYNE, NJ – It was a wet and disappointing July 1, when the Wayne PAL had to cancel their fireworks show. Worse yet, there was no rain date available, and so everyone believed that the nearly 50 year tradition of the PAL fireworks would not happen this year…until now.

In an announcement made on Facebook, the PAL has excitedly declared that they have found a rain date that works ...

WAYNE, NJ - Alen Hadzic, a 29-year-old West Orange native who graduated from Montclair High School, was temporarily suspended in June by the US Center for SafeSport when three women reported him for sexual misconduct between 2013 and 2015. Hadzic denies the allegations.

He’s an alternative on the Olympic Fencing team but is prohibited from staying in the Olympic Village ...

WAYNE, NJ – Wayne Valley High School’s outstanding fencer, Francesca Russo is in Tokyo right now, settled into the Olympic village and prepping for competition. Her road to Tokyo, though took a turn during the pandemic and COVID came very close to derailing her dream.

Russo’s story is one of perseverance through outer difficulties and inner doubts.

She moved to Wayne with ...

WAYNE, NJ - Our latest Where in Wayne contest featured a mysterious picture of an artistic sun. It was that something in the middle of that sun, which gave it away. 

Or perhaps, it's the popularity of the location that made it easy. 

The winner, chosen randomly from those who guessed it correctly is....

Jason Stier, who was chosen from nearly 70 participants who ...

McCormick Perfect Pinch Italian Seasoning, McCormick Culinary Italian Seasoning and Frank’s RedHot Buffalo Ranch Seasoning have been recalled due to possible contamination with Salmonella, announced McCormick & Company, Inc. The company was alerted by the FDA after routing testing. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.

The four products ...

A voluntary nationwide recall of Give and Go Muffin products has been announced due to potential for the products to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, said the company. Muffins baked by Give and Go are sold under several brand names including many in our area. 

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in ...

NEW YORK, NY — The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for our area for today and tonight. 

According to the NWS, showers and thunderstorms are forecast to begin later today and continue overnight. The thunderstorms may produce damaging winds and heavy rainfall. The weather service reported that "an isolated tornado is not out of the ...

WAYNE, NJ -- General Manager of Lincoln of Wayne, Peter Spina, Jr., spoke with TAPintoTV about the three kinds of electric vehicles in the automotive marketplace; Hybrid, PHEV, and BEV. 

Hybrid vehicles have gas and electric engines but no plug-in charging functionality. “The system charges itself through regenerative braking,” Spina explained. “It harnesses the kinetic ...