Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By TAPINTO WOODBRIDGE/CARTERET STAFF
May 16, 2025
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Woodbridge scored seven runs in the first inning and went on to an 11-0 baseball victory over Metuchen on Friday.Michael Gurovich pitched four shutout innings for Woodbridge with three hits allowed, six strikeouts and two walks. Yadiel Pena pitched the fifth inning, allowing one ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Here is today’s rundown of new and upcoming community events presented each week by Mayor John E. McCormac.
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka appeared in federal court for a pretrial conference on Thursday after his arrest last week when he was handcuffed and charged with federal trespassing at an immigrant detention center. A status conference is a court-ordered meeting at which a federal judge, ...
NEW JERSEY — NJ Transit’s engineers union went on strike one minute after midnight this morning, halting train service across New Jersey and stranding roughly 350,000 people who rely on the railroad each day, state and agency officials said. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen ...
COLONIA, NJ – Colonia scored two runs in the first inning and went on to a 3-1 baseball victory over Marlboro on Thursday.Junior right-hander Colin Kroner struck out seven batters in five innings. He scattered five hits and did not allow an earned run or a walk. Kroner, a Seton Hall University ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — The South Plainfield Board of Education approved a $88.4 million budget for the 2025-26 school year that will raise the average homeowner's annual property taxes by at least $500. The $88,429,821 budget is roughly $4.3 million, or 5.1%, over the current year’s budget plan ...
MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — Netflix officially broke ground Tuesday on one of the most ambitious media developments in New Jersey history: a $903 million film and television studio at the historic Fort Monmouth military base.The groundbreaking ceremony included Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and top New ...
UNION, NJ — Kean University has 49 Carteret undergraduate students among 3,959 students honored for their academic achievement on the university’s most recent Dean’s List.The university Dean's List – issued twice annually – recognizes undergrads who complete 12 or more course credits with top ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A 65-year-old man died early Wednesday, presumably from smoke inhalation, from a kitchen fire in his Avenel mobile home, authorities said.Firefighters from the Avenel and Port Reading fire departments rushed to the 4:20 am blaze on May 14th at a mobile home on North 2nd Street in ...
ISELIN, NJ – Lorelei Lorentzen, a senior on the JFK-Iselin softball team, recently collected the 100th base hit of her varsity career.Lorentzen went 4-for-5 with two doubles in a 14-7 victory over Kearny on May 10, enabling her to reach 101 career hits. In the Mustangs' next game, a loss to ...
UNION, NJ — Ninety-two Kean University undergrads from Woodbridge Township are among 3,959 students honored for their academic achievement on the university’s most recent Dean’s List.The Dean's List – issued twice annually – recognizes undergraduate students who complete 12 or more course credits, ...
NEWARK, NJ — Sharpe James, a controversial Democratic New Jersey politician who led Newark for 20 years as mayor, died at 89 after a series of illnesses.James served as the city's 37th mayor from 1986 to 2006 after succeeding former Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson. He went on to fill the unexpired ...
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka faces a federal trespassing charge and three New Jersey Democrats in Congress could be criminally charged for allegedly assaulting federal agents at Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed prison that US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) reopened as an immigrant ...
NEW JERSEY — President Donald Trump officially endorsed Jack Ciattarelli for governor in a social media post on Tuesday night, 28 days before the Republican primary.Ciattarelli is already ahead in polls, and he has raised more campaign cash than other GOP gubernatorial candidates Justin Barbera, a ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – South River, the No. 16 seed, scored a run in the top of the ninth inning and held on for a 2-1 upset of top-seeded Woodbridge in the second round of the Jim Muldowney Greater Middlesex Conference baseball tournament on Monday.Jeremiah Sanchez walked with the bases loaded and two ...
COLONIA, NJ -- It was an exceptionally attractive matchup for a first-round tournament baseball game.In fact, it may have actually been a little too good a matchup for the opening round.Chris Kozak pitched a five-hitter as 10th-seeded Middlesex outdueled seventh-seeded Colonia and Cory Pascarella, ...
NEW JERSEY — Gov. Phil Murphy cannot run for a third term and the field to replace him is wide open and crowded as 11 candidates vie for their party’s nominations in the June 10 primary election.That has left voters across the state with a number of questions on their minds, including some of the ...
LONG BRANCH, NJ — U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. recognized high-achieving students from throughout New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District during his annual spring awards ceremony, held at Middlesex College.Young artists from across Middlesex and Monmouth counties submitted work for this ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — War Memorial High School science teacher Hafeezah Abdullah is so cool that a New Jersey radio station has named her among its Class of 2025 “Teachers Who Rock”. The Dover-based radio station – 105.5 WDHA FM, known as “The Rock of New Jersey,” – serves the Morris County area and is ...
NEWARK, NJ — Federal agents arrested Mayor Ras J. Baraka along with protesters on Friday outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed prison that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reopened under questionable circumstances as an immigrant detention center.Federal agents handcuffed Baraka, 55, on the ...
On this Mother's Day, all of us at TAPinto Woodbridge-Carteret wish you endless happiness, boundless love, and deep appreciation. May this Sunday be filled with moments of joy and new treasured family memories. Your love, nurturing spirit, support, dedication and strength are an inspiration to your ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Teenager Alex Geppert’s top LinkedIn profile statement reads like a challenge and a mission: “Technology is fast, and so am I.”It’s not boastful. It’s a fair comment about this young scholar who, at 18, will graduate from Rutgers University on May 18th with a double-major in ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The town reportedly agreed to pay a $197,000 out-of-court settlement to end a 2019 lawsuit from a South Amboy woman who alleges police used excessive force when they burst into her townhouse and wrongfully arrested her.Woodbridge reportedly agreed to this out-of-court settlement in ...
NEW JERSEY — Roman Catholics and their spiritual leaders from the Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Metuchen are celebrating the College of Cardinals' choice of history’s first US-born pontiff, Pope Leo XIV.The Vatican conclave of cardinals elected Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, May 9.Anchors Tiki Bar has Hollow Molly tonight at 6 pm, and Anthony Squared at 6 pm on Saturday.On Saturday, the St. John Vianney 8th grade has a car wash at the school from 9:30 am to 2 pm; Bubbakoo’s Burritos in Avenel is donating 25% of ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Nearly 500 people attended the town’s 19th annual “Senior Summit & Older Adults Expo” this week, with Mayor John E. McCormac saying it was “terrific to see so many people” at the Wednesday, May 7th event.The annual Senior Summit & Older Adults Expo “gets bigger and better ...
NEWARK, NJ — The controversial $6 billion Newark Bay Bridge replacement has received a permit and “finding of no significant impact” from the U.S. Coast Guard, clearing the way for the NJ Turnpike Authority to begin construction of an extension between Interchanges 14 in Newark and 14A in Bayonne ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ -- Woodbridge was awarded the top seed, and South Plainfield received the No. 2 seed, for the Greater Middlesex Conference baseball tournament, which gets underway with preliminary round games on Saturday.Woodbridge will host the winner of a Saturday preliminary game between (16) ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Gregg M. Ficarra has resigned from the Township Council four months after he was sworn-in to a fifth term as a Councilman-at-Large in New Jersey’s seventh-largest municipality. A state-law-proscribed process to temporarily fill his council vacancy is underway.Ficarra, and his wife, ...
BAYONNE, NJ — Convicted mobster Louis “Bobby” Manna – now 95, frail and the alleged mastermind behind a plot to murder mafia boss John Gotti – has been released from federal prison after 36 years and will be living in Bayonne.Manna, originally from Jersey City, held court at a tavern located in ...