Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By MADISON MILLER
June 10, 2025
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey voters will visit the polls on Tuesday for a gubernatorial primary election that’s drawing the highest campaign spending in Garden State history, exceeding $122 million. Voters will choose from a field of six Democrats and five Republicans. Each party’s winner will face off ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A Middlesex County jury has convicted Rashid Ali Bynum in the Feb. 1, 2023 murder of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour outside her La Mer apartment. Members of Eunice Dwumfour's family were in the courtroom as the guilty verdict was read. The jury – comprised of nine men ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - The South Brunswick Police Department held their annual awards ceremony to recognize the actions of their officers and the residents of the community. The awards represented five lives who were saved, the rescue of a carjacking victim, and the resolution of an armed standoff, ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — One of this community’s busiest Iselin intersections should now be safer for drivers and pedestrians after more than $1 million in safety improvements that Middlesex County has made in partnership with the township.Officials unveiled recently-completed safety measures at the ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Visiting hours will be on Wednesday, June 11th, for well-respected 30-year police Lt. Richard J. Hardish, who died unexpectedly on Thursday. Hardish was 61.The Woodbridge Police Department announced “heartbreaking news” of Hardish’s untimely death on its Facebook page, followed by ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — The borough Planning Board voted unanimously to reject the latest site plan for the Masjid Sadar (Mosque) and Community Center, on Ernston Road, near the border with Old Bridge.The Planning Board denial came on Wednesday, June 4th, during a public meeting that began with a ...
ELIZABETH, NJ — A 44-year-old man from the Avenel section of Woodbridge is among 24 people arrested in a major Union County law enforcement sweep to smash a ring that dealt drugs in the Central New Jersey area.Among those arrested is Eugene Doss, 44, from Avenel, charged with multiple counts of ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A federal court judge sentenced an Iselin man to 27 months behind bars for defrauding at least 60 victims in South Korea with a bogus investment scheme, according to interim US Attorney Alina Habba.US District Judge Georgette Castner, presiding in Trenton, handed Mohammed S.
NEWARK, NJ — New Jersey households, recently hit with higher electricity costs, can receive $100 to $250 more in credits from the state, parceled over six months, to help pay those bills, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Thursday in Newark.Typical households will receive $16.60 per month from ...
TRENTON, NJ — A Burlington County man is facing criminal human trafficking charges after seeking to have sex with a 12-year-old girl, according to NJ Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ.)The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Robert R. Lockwood from Browns ...
This is Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, June 6th.Redline Rodeo, formerly known as the “Buckshot Band,” will be at Anchors Tiki Bar tonight at 6 pm. Our Summer Concert Series kicks off with “Beginnings,” covering Chicago on Tuesday at Woodbridge High School; Susan Werner at Parker Press Park ...
HAMILTON, NJ — Three people, including a 10-year-old girl, were found dead from gunshot wounds early on Thursday in what authorities believe is a tragic murder-suicide inside a home.Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta Marbrey said an initial investigation suggests that a man fatally shot his ...
COLONIA, NJ -- After Kevin Penny pitched six brilliant innings in oppressive heat, third-seeded South Plainfield had to sweat out a menacing seventh-inning rally by top-seeded Colonia before hanging on for a 5-4 victory for the NJSIAA North 2, Group 3 baseball championship on Thursday afternoon.The ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — Police are seeking the culprits who swiped a multicolored Pride Flag from a pole outside Borough Hall on June 4th, and left it in a heap on the ground in the parking lot.Detectives are scouring parking lot surveillance videos to see who removed the Pride flag between 7 pm and 10 pm ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A host of state, county and municipal officials were on hand as Woodbridge Township celebrated June as LGBTQ+ Pride Awareness Month for a fifth year with a flag-raising outside the Municipal Complex on Main Street.Hoisting the multicolored Pride Flag at the June 3rd ceremony was ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — It’s the season for bears to meander into New Jersey neighborhoods, and that’s what appears to be happening in some of our local towns. In the past week or so, people in North Brunswick, nearby Franklin Township, Piscataway and South Brunswick have reported multiple bear ...
EDISON, NJ — Police credit a “good Samaritan” for rescuing an elderly man who crashed his car outside the Route 27 Costco and Pet Smart stores just before 6 am on Tuesday, June 3rd.Charles Parry, 49, from Piscataway, was waiting in line for gas when he saw another driver lose control of his car, ...
TRENTON, NJ — A married couple who own a Sayreville strip club and two employees have pleaded guilty to criminal charges of running a house of prostitution at the Route 35 business and agreed to pay back taxes and undergo state monitoring for five years.Doreen Acciardi, the owner of Club 35 – also ...
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka has filed a lawsuit against Alina Habba, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, and Ricky Patel, special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations, charging they subjected him to false arrest and malicious prosecution on May 9 outside the Newark immigrant ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — For all the glitz and glamour of the pageantry world, it is the chance to have a soapbox for her personal cause that appeals to Asmi Kaushal. The 19-year-old Sayreville woman, who just completed her sophomore year at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was crowned Miss New Jersey ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Westfield scored seven runs in the first two innings and went on to an 8-4 victory over Woodbridge in the semifinal round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 4 baseball tournament on Wednesday.Third-seeded Westfield will play at top-seeded Ridge in the sectional championship game on ...
COLONIA, NJ – Colin Kroner's two-out RBI double in the bottom of the 10th inning gave Colonia a 1-0 victory over North Hunterdon in the semifinal round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 3 baseball tournament on Tuesday.The top-seeded Patriots will host third-seeded South Plainfield in the sectional ...
NEW JERSEY — The US Dept. of Homeland Security has named three New Jersey counties and 18 cities or towns among 500 “sanctuary” communities across America that it claims are “deliberately obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws,” and stand in the way of President Donald Trump’s mass ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — The Sayreville Police Department has recognized three of its detectives with Meritorious Service Awards for outstanding efforts during the 2024 Operation Cruel Summer, conducted last summer from June 3 to June 10th.Operation Cruel Summer – led by the Middlesex County prosecutor’s ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A Middlesex County grand jury has decided not to hand up criminal charges against an Edison police officer who allegedly used a potentially “deadly, but non-fatal” chokehold to subdue a woman in 2022.Edison police Officer Christopher Siedenburg – hired in October 2020 – is off ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — A new indoor luxury entertainment center, called “Albatross,” will hold its grand opening in Edison Township on Wednesday, June 18th, with state and local officials scheduled to attend an 11 am ribbon-cutting ceremony.The Florida-based owners of the family-friendly ...
TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned shall expose for sale in accordance with R.S. 39:10A-1, at a public auction on Friday, June 13, 2025, at 11 a.m. at 2480 Plainfield Avenue, South Plainfield, New Jersey, the below-described motor vehicles which came into possession of the South Plainfield Police ...
CARTERET & WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Registered Democrat and Republican voters can cast early, in-person ballots in the New Jersey primary starting on Tuesday, June 3rd at certain Middlesex County polling sites.The state’s 2025 Primary Election will be Tuesday, June 10th, but a 2021 law allows ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – No sooner had the sculpture of a jogger in a vintage 1980s tracksuit and matching Nike running shoes been lowered from the delivery truck to the sidewalk than a woman strolling down Albany Street did a double-take. A man in a hoodie did the same thing a few seconds later. So did a ...
CARTERET & WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Early in-person voting begins on Tuesday, June 3rd at certain Middlesex County polling sites. Here’s what registered Democrat and Republican voters in Carteret and Woodbridge should know before they go to cast their ballots.Voters in these neighboring Middlesex ...