Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By TAPINTO WOODBRIDGE/CARTERET STAFF
April 3, 2025
PERTH AMBOY, NJ – Senior right-hander Cory Pascarella pitched five shutout innings and Colonia defeated Perth Amboy, 9-2, in baseball on Thursday.Pascarella, a Monmouth University commit, allowed two hits, struck out 11 and walked one. He threw 80 pitches.Matt Fasulo went 2-for-5 with a double and ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – South Brunswick scored five runs in the first inning, but Woodbridge rallied for a 7-5 softball victory on Thursday.Gia Allan went 3-for-4 with a home run, two runs batted in and three runs scored for Woodbridge (2-0). Gia Pedde was 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI for the ...
NEWARK, NJ — The city filed a complaint in Essex County Superior Court against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming it opened the Delaney Hall facility for illegal immigrants without following proper building safety protocols, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka's office.In February, ICE ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — It wouldn't be a backhanded compliment to say that Ronnie Li, this town's “Queen of Racket Sports,” aced this one. (It would be a few bad puns!)Due largely to the efforts of Li and the East Brunswick Recreation & Parks Department, Recycleballs, a national nonprofit that ...
CLARK, NJ — The Clark Soccer Club announces that registration is now open for those wishing to tryout for the club's travel teams.Related Article: Clark Soccer Club Collaborating with TAPinto Clark, Spreading News and Updates About Spring SeasonThe travel teams holding tryouts include:Girls and ...
CARTERET, NJ — Carteret avenged an opening day loss with a 5-3 baseball victory over J.P. Stevens High School on Wednesday.Lucas Rivera scored two runs and drove in a run for Carteret (1-1), which had lost to J.P. Stevens on Monday. Nick Kee had one hit and scored a run for the Ramblers.Winning ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — JFK-Iselin racked up 17 base hits and rolled to a 15-4 softball victory over East Brunswick Magnet on Wednesday.Lorelei Lorentzen hit two home runs and two singles, drove in three runs and scored three runs for the Mustangs (2-0), who scored seven runs in the third inning to ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Ken Crilley, a second grade teacher at Ross Street Elementary School, is competing in a national online competition to become “America’s Favorite Teacher.”Crilley is in it to win it, and he’s doing well in the online contest sponsored by Colossal Management LLC, an Arizona-based ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – The Woodbridge softball team opened its season with a 12-2 victory over Perth Amboy on Tuesday.Woodbridge scored at least one run in all six innings. Winning pitcher Madelyn Brenner went 3-for-4 with three runs batted in and a run scored, and Kylie Rackett was 3-for-4 with a double ...
COLONIA, NJ – The Colonia baseball team opened its 2025 season by doing something the team didn't do all of 2024.The Patriots defeated Perth Amboy, 13-3, on Tuesday, surpassing their run total for any single game in all of last season.Cory Pascarella and Colin Kroner each hit home runs for Colonia, ...
SOMERSET, NJ — A small aircraft crash in Franklin Township on Sunday, March 30th, claimed the life of a Lawrenceville man and triggered a multi-agency investigation led by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), according to a newly released statement from the Franklin Township Police ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Municipal officials will today declare April as “Autism Awareness & Acceptance Month,” and will honor middle school student Gabrielle Tonelli, who designed autism awareness magnets to be displayed this month on all Woodbridge patrol cars.At 5:30 pm today, Mayor John E. McCormac ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ — East Jersey Old Town Village is set to kick off its 2025 season with an exciting Opening Weekend on April 5–6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event marks the official start of the Historical Interpreter season, which runs from April to October.Located at 1050 River Road in Piscataway, ...
METUCHEN, NJ -- Xavier Diaz' three-run double with two out in the top of the eighth inning proved to be the difference as Woodbridge held on for an 8-7 baseball victory over St. Joseph on opening day Monday.Diaz rocketed a 3-1 fastball to the gap in right-center field to score pinch-runner Jack ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The township’s nine new police officers have taken their oaths-of-office, and five veteran officers received awards from Mayor John E. McCormac and Police Director Joseph Nisky for their exemplary service in 2024.Sworn into office on Friday, March 28th are police Officers: Michael ...
SOMERSET, NJ — Authorities in Franklin Township are investigating a single-engine aircraft crash that occurred Sunday morning, prompting a multi-agency emergency response and an active federal inquiry.According to a press release issued by the Franklin Township Police Department, air traffic ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — This Central New Jersey community has a business boom going, with many new restaurants, retailers and other businesses arriving downtown and elsewhere across this 24-square-mile town.Nearly a half-dozen businesses recently opened. Others are on the horizon and more are in the ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Flanked by caregivers, seniors and people with disabilities affected by proposed cuts to Medicaid, Gov. Phil Murphy appeared at the Westfield Community Center drumming a message that focused on the noticeably absent US Rep. Tom Kean Jr. “I don’t think there will be a more important ...
NEWARK, NJ — The city's Board of Education, facing rising charter school payments, contractual salary increases and higher student enrollment, has approved a nearly $1.6 billion budget for the 2025-26 school year that will increase annual property taxes by an average $33.12 despite a 6% increase in ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The union that represents this town’s 90 career firefighters and its active retirees quietly marked its 96th anniversary this week as an affiliate of the Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey and the International Association of Firefighters.Paid firefighters from ...
LINDEN, NJ — After struggling in the second half of last season, the JFK-Iselin baseball team would certainly welcome a fast start in 2025.It's not likely to ever get any easier for the Mustangs than it was in their opener Friday afternoon, when the first 18 batters they sent to the plate in the ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John E. McCormac. It’s Friday, March 28th.Our Main Public Library will host a Community Resource Fair where people can learn about housing and rent assistance; about family counseling, job searches and other topics from 12 pm to 3 pm today. The Highland Grove Youth Center ...
COLONIA, NJ — Colonia had the most improved baseball team in all of Middlesex County last spring.But that doesn't mean there still isn't more room for improvement for head coach Mike Scialfo's Patriots, who went from 9-14 two years ago to 19-7 last season.Colonia opens its 2025 season at home ...
NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Board of Education has approved up to $2.8 million for catering and takeout of continental breakfasts, lunches, dinners and afternoon refreshments over the past two years.District catering – ranging from Latino cuisine, assorted baked goods, pizza, buttermilk pancakes, soul ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — A Piscataway man was arrested after an investigation into multiple reckless driving and eluding incidents in South Plainfield led police there to discover a loaded AK-47-style assault weapon in his vehicle, authorities said.Kairi Watford, 23, was arrested on Monday and ...
ISELIN, NJ — The JFK-Iselin baseball team will be the first one in Middlesex County to open its season when the Mustangs travel to Linden on Friday afternoon.In head coach Arthur Davis' first season last year, JFK got off to a 7-2 start, but ran into tough times in May and finished the season 9-14 ...
NEWARK, NJ — CivicsNJ, a new, non-partisan coalition that describes itself as an organization “dedicated to advancing civic learning and engagement,” launched this month at a ceremony in Newark.“The purpose of CivicsNJ is to share information, connect teachers and other service leaders to each ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Woodbridge baseball team will open its season at St. Joseph of Metuchen on Monday, March 31.The Barrons will miss the presence of workhorse ace pitcher Eddy Nunez, who moved on to continue his baseball career at Felician University after graduating following an all-conference ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — New Jersey’s “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) program is perhaps the state’s most misunderstood tax relief program. It gets a bad rap, and is often slammed by critics at public meetings.The reason, says expert Keith S. Balla, is that many people “do not understand, or are not ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Three public high schools will have metal detectors at their entrances sooner rather than later after a Woodbridge High student’s March 18th arrest for allegedly bringing a loaded “ghost gun” to school. A day after that 17-year-old’s arrest, Superintendent Joseph Massimino sent a ...