Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By VICTORIA CARUSO
June 30, 2025
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — Katie Stilo is a busy woman, and she's getting busier. Already an Emmy-award-winning culinary producer and food stylist for the TODAY Show, this 31-year-old South Plainfield native recently launched her own baking business and co-authored a cookbook.“Never in a million years ...
The Fourth of July is our annual celebration of America’s birth and our independence. We enjoy this unofficial start of summer with parades, festivals and spending time with family and friends at backyard barbecues or trips down the shore to oceanfront beaches.Carteret, Woodbridge and nearby ...
MILLTOWN, NJ — This small Middlesex County borough is often called “the greatest little town in the land,” a catch-phase coined by its native son and late, longtime Middlesex County Freeholder David B. Crabiel.Milltown is now ready to show its ‘great little town spirit and hospitality’ to its 7,100 ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — History buffs can share tankards of “grog” with Gen. George Washington on Sunday, June 29th at the Flounder Brewing Company’s historic Dutch barn, just a 24-mile car ride from the Carteret–Woodbridge area.Actor David Emerson is to portray the Continental Army’s commander-in-chief ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — If you’re firing firecrackers on your street or bottle rockets in your backyard, watch out. The Police Department has increased neighborhood patrols to crackdown on the possession, sale and use of illegal fireworks. Marked and unmarked police vehicles have stepped up ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — A groundhog that later tested positive for rabies bit two people outside The Landing business complex at Amwell Road on Wednesday, June 25, the local health department said.Both are being treated; neither are Hillsborough residents, according to health officer Siobhan Spano, who ...
EDISON, NJ — A local man died after being hit by a car on Route 27 and a passenger in his car remains hospitalized with injuries, township police said.Killed in the accident was Tuan A. Phan, 47, from Edison, and the injured passenger is Hahn D. Huynh, 52, also from Edison, police said.The initial ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — The city Police Department has promoted four officers and welcomed a number of new officers to its ranks during a ceremony at the Raritan Bay Area YMCA Auditorium.The June 20 event brought together city officials, family members and community leaders to honor the achievements and ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac and today is Friday, June 27.Our Summer Concert Series continues tonight with “Nine Deez Night” at Anchors Tiki Bar, and with “Kinderhook” on Sunday; “Bob Miranda & the Happenings” on Monday; and “Frontiers” covering Journey on Tuesday, all at Woodbridge ...
EDISON, NJ — A 72-year-old Piscataway woman died on Tuesday after in a two-vehicle crash when her husband’s minivan allegedly collided with a commercial box truck on Interstate 287, according to NJ State Police reports.Judith Ellen Kennon was badly injured at 10:35 am on Tuesday, June 24th, when ...
NEWARK, NJ — A former aide to city Councilwoman Louise Scott-Rountree has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell $3,000 worth of cocaine to a “cooperating witness” in a Morris County drug investigation.Bryan A. Atahualpa, 26, was arrested on Friday, June 20th, after detectives from the Morris ...
CARTERET, NJ — Crow Holdings at Carteret is now fully leased after China-based YunExpress agreed to a long-term lease for a 480,000-square-foot building at 500 Salt Meadow Road on the 126-acre campus-style development. YunExpress, a global third-party logistics provider (3PL), joins the two other ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — Authorities are investigation the tragic death of a 1-year-old boy, found unresponsive at a residential daycare last week, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Police Chief Lawrence Cattano said in a prepared statement.City police got a 911 call from a daycare at a ...
TRENTON, NJ — A proposed state law would give parents paid time off from their jobs to attend their children’s school events or meetings with teachers without taking a hit on their paychecks. The measures – state Senate Bill 172 and its Assembly companion Bill 126 – would allow employers to give ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Nearly a year after opening its permanent home at American Dream, the New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) has announced its 2025 inductees. This year's list of 17 inductees includes Grammy-nominated pop rock band Jonas Brothers, chef/restaurateur David Burke, four-time Olympic ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Commerce & Industry Association’s “Revitalization of New Jersey’s Vacant Properties” event on June 18th at the APA Hotel in Woodbridge, NJ, brought together experts from law, government, academia, and the environmental field to discuss the current challenges, tools, and ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy joined with state and city officials on June 24 to break ground on the second phase of the new Raritan River Bridge project. The new center lift bridge will replace the 117-year-old swing bridge on the North Jersey Coast Line (NJCL) between Perth Amboy and South ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — The South Plainfield School District’s former athletic director has filed a lawsuit against the district and a member of its board of education (BOE). In the multi-count claim, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court, Tammy Zurka alleges that she was the victim of ...
EDISON, NJ — The Inman Grove Shopping Center, at 1125 Inman Ave., has sold for an estimated $24 million, according to a commercial real estate firm involved in the transaction.The 120,000-square-foot Inman Grove Shopping Center is home to a number of stores and restaurants, and is popular with ...
PERTH AMBOY— A city man faces multiple charges after he allegedly assaulted a Siberian Husky in a Franklin Township parking lot, then allegedly touched off a police pursuit that ended with a damaged patrol car, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.Prosecutor John P. McDonald said ...
RUTHERFORD – As Rutherford Police Chief John R. Russo concludes his one-year term as the 109th president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP), it comes with a sense of gratification.Over the year, Russo oversaw a steady stream of initiatives as the association marked ...
SOMERSET, NJ — A Perth Amboy man faces multiple charges after he allegedly assaulted a Siberian Husky in a Franklin Township parking lot, then allegedly touched off a police pursuit that ended with a damaged patrol car, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.Prosecutor John P.
LINDEN, NJ — A 20-year-old Woodbridge man is in the Essex County jail after being arrested for shooting multiple rounds at a moving car on a residential street here, Linden police said.Eddie Germain from Woodbridge was charged with three second-degree counts of unlawful weapon possession after he ...
MILLTOWN, NJ — Borough police have arrested a South River man on parole from state prison in connection with a string of late-night car burglaries along South Moetz Drive, police Chief Christopher Johnson has announced.Officers Nicholas Espinosa and Robert Wehrle arrested a 24-year-old man from ...
CARTERET, NJ — United Way of Northern New Jersey has honored Crow Holdings at Carteret for its exemplary commitment to the community, bestowing a 2025 Industrial Impact Award.Crow Holdings at Carteret received the prestigious award at United Way’s recent 26th annual spring Commercial Real Estate ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — City officials joined their Woodbridge Township counterparts to break ground on construction of a large, dynamic multimillion-dollar warehouse-distribution-office facility that borders these neighboring communities.The new Raritan River Logistics Center at 577 Smith St. straddles ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Enjoy miniature golf? Well, it’s time to ‘tee off’ for Mayor John E. McCormac’s 2025 Miniature Golf Gala coming Wednesday, June 25th, at the Woodbridge Community Center’s Skyline Pavilion.This mini-golf event is a popular annual fundraiser for the Woodbridge Community Charity Fund ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A month-long manhunt has ended in the arrest of a 31-year-old man wanted for an alleged May 15th attempted murder of a North Brunswick police lieutenant who was on a stakeout in this nearby community, authorities said.The US Marshals Service arrested Luis Duval-Jimenez, 31, of ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Three members of the Woodbridge High School baseball team, and two Colonia players, were named to the All-Greater Middlesex Conference Team for 2025.Senior right-hander Cory Pascarella of Colonia was voted the GMC Pitcher of the Year. A Division 1 Monmouth University commit, ...
TRENTON, NJ — A state grand jury has indicted a doctor from Woodbridge’s Colonia section on multiple counts of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, and tampering with medical records, NJ Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced.Dr. Gurvindra Johal, 57, who lives in Colonia, has been ...