Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By TAPINTO NEW STAFF
December 25, 2025
As the holiday season blankets us with its magic, we at TAPinto want to extend our warmest wishes to our readers, neighbors, and the entire community. Christmas is a time for reflection, joy, and togetherness—a moment to cherish family, friends, and the traditions that make this season so ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — Police are asking for the public's help to find the burglars who broke into and ransacked a church.The crime was discovered around 7 am Monday, Dec. 22, when parishioners at St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church on Kingston Lane in Monmouth Junction arrived for morning Mass.Police ...
NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Five players scored in double digits as the Woodbridge boys basketball team defeated North Plainfield, 81-60, on Tuesday.Emmanuel Cruz scored 22 points for the Barrons (1-2), who outscored North Plainfield, 27-18, in a fast-paced first quarter and extended their lead to 12 ...
NEW JERSEY — Tiny tots with eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight. They know Santa on his way with lots of toys and goodies in his sleigh. And every mother’s child is going to spy to see if reindeer really know how to fly.Do those lyrics sound familiar? Nat King Cole’s classic ...
ISELIN, NJ — The JFK-Iselin boys basketball team raced out to a 13-point lead after a quarter and went on to a 62-22 victory over Perth Amboy Magnet School on Tuesday afternoon.Senior guard Grant Lorentzen scored 17 points to lead JFK-Iselin (1-3), which had a 46-10 lead by halftime. Lorentzen is ...
TOTOWA, NJ — The police chief in this Passaic County borough has been criminally charged in Boston for the alleged assault and September kidnapping of his girlfriend at a ‘Beantown’ hotel, according to the Massachusetts Suffolk District Attorney's Office.Prosecutors in Massachusetts allege Totowa ...
BAYONNE, NJ — Movie executives joined New Jersey officials to break ground for 1888 Studios, a massive 58-acre film and television production campus, making it what Gov. Phil Murphy said would be “the largest in the Northeast.” Located on Bayonne’s waterfront, 1888 Studios, in partnership with ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A dozen men, mostly from Middlesex County, have been arrested and charged as alleged child sexual predators in a multi-agency undercover police initiative called “Operation Bad Santa,” Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said in a prepared statement.The 12 men were arrested over six ...
COLONIA, NJ — In a regular-season December game contested with all the hunger and intensity of a county championship showdown, Isaiah Fowler scored six of his 18 points from the foul line in the second overtime to help Piscataway put the seal on a 75-73 boys basketball victory over Colonia on ...
MILLTOWN, NJ — Most senior citizen fraud cases don’t end well. However, an 87-year-old Oklahoma woman is going to recoup $47,000 swindled from her in a fraud scheme thanks to borough police Detective Sgt. Erik M. Haefner.Haefner, a 12-year borough police veteran, worked with police in Tulsa, OK, ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The township has revived its Hanukkah menorah lighting tradition after an 18-year hiatus, with officials pledging to make this “festival of lights” an annual event once more.Mayor John E. McCormac, Township Council members and a host of guests held a menorah lighting ceremony ...
NEW JERSEY — State Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-16th Dist.) will not be a candidate to replace US Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman when she retires from her 12th Congressional District seat in 2026.Zwicker, 61, a Princeton Plasma Laboratory physicist, has served in the New Jersey Senate from the 16th District ...
NEW JERSEY — Indoor Christmas trees – live or artificial – that topple over reportedly cause most holiday injuries in the Garden State households, according to a recent study from a California-based law firm.The study, from the Bisnar Chase law firm, shows that shortcuts people take when they ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Woodbridge held J.P. Stevens scoreless in the first quarter and went on to a 66-29 girls basketball victory on Saturday afternoon.Senior guard Angel Smith collected 24 points, seven rebounds and five assists for Woodbridge (3-0), which outscored J.P. Stevens, 16-0, in the first ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A New Jersey corrections officer at a state prison for sex offenders has been arrested and charged for allegedly sexually assaulting two inmates, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said in a prepared statement.Corrections Officer Anthony Nelson, 37, from Piscataway, is ...
This is Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, Dec. 19th.We are still not able to use our “Code Red” telephone system, but the issues with the carrier are getting closer to being fixed.The Children’s Clothes Closet is open tomorrow from 10 am to 1 pm at the Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge.There ...
NEWARK, NJ — Mikie Sherrill’s Jan. 20th inauguration as the Garden State’s next governor will be at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark – not in Trenton – a move that reportedly breaks a 235-year tradition.Gov-Elect Mikie Sherrill announced the venue switch in a prepared ...
COLONIA, NJ — Sophomore guard Jayce Rodriguez scored 30 points to lead Colonia to a 71-60 boys basketball victory over Old Bridge on Thursday night.Senior guard Dylan Chiera finished with 15 points, three steals and two assists for Colonia (2-1), which rallied from a 48-44 deficit after three ...
WOOBRIDGE, NJ — A 39-year-old Piscataway man died early Thursday in an accident on the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge, according to the NJ State Police.The accident occurred at 12:46 am on Thursday, Dec. 18th, on the Parkway’s southbound lanes near milepost 133.9, authorities said.It appears ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A 911 police dispatcher, Darlene Bonilla, has been honored for the calm, professional way she handled an Oct. 30th phone call from a 63-year-old Iselin man who allegedly fatally stabbed a woman with whom he shared a home.Darlene Bonilla, from Colonia, is Woodbridge’s first ...
NEW JERSEY — New research from music platform Chordify shows a nostalgic shake-up in America’s festive favorites.Chordify conducted a vast Google search that discovered while Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree held the top spot across ten states, José Feliciano’s bilingual classic Feliz ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — South Plainfield opened an eight-point lead by halftime, but Woodbridge rallied for a 46-43 girls basketball victory over the Tigers in the opening game for both teams on Tuesday night.Angel Smith collected 20 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and three steals for Woodbridge, ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ — Sophomore guard Jayce Rodriguez scored 26 points to lead Colonia to a 59-49 boys basketball victory over St. Thomas Aquinas on Tuesday night.Rodriguez hit three 3-point baskets and sank all five of his free throws. He also handed out two assists for Colonia (1-1), which outscored ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Drag performer Harmonica Sunbeam, who is well known locally for hosting drag queen story hours and participating in other community events, says she was denied an Uber ride Sunday evening after the driver abruptly pulled away and canceled the trip moments after arriving at the ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Port Reading couple thrilled a generation of youngsters, neighbors and passersby with lavish holiday displays outside their Seventh Street home.Woodbridge Township recently commemorated the spirit of joy that Robert and Carol Fischer brought to so many people for so many years, ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Andrew Bena showed plenty of upside as a freshman on the South Plainfield varsity boys' basketball team last year, when he averaged 8.2 points playing mostly on the wings.But the first game of Bena's sophomore season was something to behold.The 6-4 forward scored 29 points, ...
NEWARK, NJ — Gov-Elect Mikie Sherrill has nominated Jennifer L. Davenport, an experienced career prosecutor, to become the state’s 63rd Attorney General and the fifth woman to hold that office.Sherrill made Davenport’s nomination public at a joint appearance on Monday, Dec. 15th in Newark, ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — The family of an 11-year-old girl were awarded a $3.25 million settlement due to a 2023 car crash in East Brunswick, according to the law firm Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman.Two cousins were racing along Ryders Lane when they reportedly caused the accident, severely injuring ...
BAYONNE, NJ — The Woodbridge/Colonia/JFK tri-op team scored the first three goals of the game and hung on for a 5-4 ice hockey victory over Bayonne on Monday.After Bayonne (1-4-1) had closed to within 4-3 in the second period, Woodbridge (3-0) got a goal from Evan Shubert nine seconds into the ...
CARTERET, NJ — Carteret scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to break open a close game and went on to a 57-46 boys basketball victory over JFK-Iselin on Monday night.It was the opening game for JFK-Iselin, but the second game of the season for Carteret (2-0).Senior guard Qorey Carter ...