Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By MIDDLESEX COUNTY
August 23, 2024
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — East Jersey Old Town Village located at 1050 River Road in Piscataway will welcome Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra, and Queen Esther for an unforgettable jazz extravaganza at its second Roaring 20s Jazz Party on Sept. 14, from 11 am to 5 pm. Learn to dance in ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Police have arrested a man who they believe groped and tried to kiss a store worker in Westfield the day after Christmas, according to Police Chief Christopher Battiloro. Jairo Pineda-Angarita, 35, of Plainfield was arrested Aug. 10, police said. He has been charged with criminal ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Colonia High School football team will open its 2024 season on Thursday, Aug. 29 at Sayreville War Memorial High School. The Colonia Patriots, who were 5-5 last season, will have a different look this season after the graduation of two-year starting quarterback (and ...
BELMAR, NJ — Wearing a $12 “beach badge” is apparently taken very seriously here. Belmar cops stopped a 28-year-old surfer visiting from California – with no beach badge pinned on his wetsuit – on Tuesday, Aug. 20th. He ended up in a chokehold, tackled to the sand, and escorted away in ...
PATERSON, NJ — Congressman William “Bill” Pascrell Jr., who had a prominent four-decade political career in local, state, and national government, died at age 87 on Wednesday. Pascrell served 14 consecutive terms in Congress, was its oldest member, and planned to seek re-election again in ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 22-year-old borough man killed Tuesday night in the parking lot of a Swider Drive apartment building. Jeremiah Brown was found with a gunshot wound on Swider Driver at about 9:50 p.m, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The John F. Kennedy High School football team will open its season on Thursday, Aug. 29th, at home against Perth Amboy. The Mustangs avoided a winless season with a victory in their final game of the 2023 season over J.P. Stevens, but this year, they'll be more experienced, as a ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Organizers of the 27th annual “Woodbridge Crossroads of New Jersey 5K” have announced that all money raised from this event on Sunday Sept. 1 will benefit the Marisa Tufaro Foundation. Since its inception seven years ago, the non-profit Marisa Tufaro Foundation has contributed ...
BRIGANTINE, NJ — At a recent hearing in Brigantine, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-2nd Dist.) and Chris Smith (D-4th Dist.) led a discussion on the implications of the proposed offshore wind programs. They were joined by PA Congressman Scott Perry (PA-10) and a panel of experts to provide their ...
NEW JERSEY — Beleaguered US Sen. Bob Menendez officially resigns today, Aug 20th, and has decided to end his independent re-election campaign for the federal post he has held since 2006. Meanwhile, on Aug. 19th, Menendez’s defense lawyers filed a 52-page appeal to ask US District Judge Sidney ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — The NJ State Police has identified a dead body found floating in the South River near Edgeboro Landfill on Aug. 8th as a 45-year-old Edison man. The victim is Reynaldo Salcedo-Tavarez, according to a brief statement from the NJ State Police Marine Service Bureau. Online ...
EDISON, NJ — The family of heroic local World War II veteran, George Arthur Cerrito, will finally get back his long-long Purple Heart in a ceremony today, Aug. 20th, at his niece’s home on Hidden Hollow Court. Vermont-based Purple Hearts Reunited arranged for the medal to be returned to ...
PATERSON, NJ — The iconic Mr. G's Diner has officially reopened, marking a new chapter for a beloved community landmark. Originally opened in 1940 as Pickering’s Grill, the diner has been a cornerstone of Paterson's cultural and social fabric for over eight decades. In 2008, the diner was ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Summer is far from over, but it’s not too early to know who’s running for municipal offices in your community. The county Board of Elections just released its 2024 ballot-placement list of national, county, and municipal candidates for the Tuesday, Nov. 5th general ...
EDISON, NJ — Eleven buildings at the Evergreen Meadows apartment complex are now safe for hundreds of evacuated tenants to return home, according to Mayor Samip “Sam” Joshi. Hundreds of tenants were evacuated on Friday, Aug. 9th, from 280 apartments at Evergreen Meadows after two ceilings ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — The NJ Historical Commission released its first list of 32 sites to be honored on the state’s new “Black Heritage Trail,” places considered “meaningful to Black history, heritage, and culture.” Middlesex County comes up woefully short. Just one site in this 323-square-mile ...
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey police departments began their annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign on Friday as state Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced $540,680 worth of grants to 110 agencies to help pay for their initiatives. In Middlesex County, only five police departments ...
EDISON, NJ — A former township police officer is going to spend 15 years in state prison for a 2023 drunk driving accident that killed two of his passengers in Franklin Township. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Jonathan W. Romankow sentenced 30-year-old Amitoj Oberoi on Wednesday, Aug. 14, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Pat Hobbs has resigned as the athletic director at Rutgers University, breaking ties with a department that has a budget of almost $170 million - accounting for about 3% of the school’s $5.6 billion budget. Hobbs is stepping down due to health issues, according to a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Cindy Braun can show students how to whip up a pâté in her three-credit Garde Manger course. Andrew Rubin can suggest the best entrée choices for a corporate luncheon of a hundred investment bankers in a four-credit Banquet and Dining Room Management course. Brian ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. It’s Friday, August 16th. The Avenel Performing Arts Center is featuring “The Soapranos Dinner Theater” at 6 pm tonight and tomorrow night, and at 3 pm on Sunday. Anchors Tiki Bar in Sewaren will feature the “Down Strokes” from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ — Wanna be in the movies? Your big break may be coming. A Manhattan casting agency has put out a call for New Jerseyans to be paid extras in Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” a Netflix sequel to his 1996 box office hit comedy. Grant Wilfley Casting will hold a casting call from ...
TRENTON, NJ — To make up for a summer of repeated delays and cancelations, Gov. Phil Murphy is giving NJ Transit travelers a “transit fare holiday,” from Monday, Aug. 26 through Labor Day, Sept. 2. NJ Transit train, light rail and bus commuters will get free rides, and monthly pass holders will ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Construction of what will virtually be a new, state-of-the-art Avenel Elementary School officially got underway on Wednesday with youngsters joining municipal officials to break ground at the site. The long-awaited Avenel Street School No. 4 & 5 redevelopment project is ...
NEWARK, NJ — A package of bills signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) into law on Tuesday aims to strengthen youth literacy skills with a focus on grades K-3. Murphy signed the bills in Newark, where the school district has struggled with reading scores. School officials reported last September that ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — In the wake of the most significant changes to New Jersey’s affordable housing legislation in four decades, Middlesex County’s Office of Human Services volunteer advocacy group, the Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC), invited experts, municipal leaders, and non-profit ...
WOODBRIDGE NJ — An extended-stay hotel may eventually replace the Garden Farm Market store, a block off Route 1 South in the township’s Menlo Park Terrace section. DCD Capital LLC, based in Bridgewater, is scheduled to make its pitch to the township Planning Board on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for a ...
NEW JERSEY — Award-winning broadcast journalist Michael Aron, the chief New Jersey political correspondent on the state’s public television stations for four decades, died on Tuesday. He was 78. Considered the “dean of the Statehouse Press Corps,” Aron was a daily fixture on NJ PBS News and on ...
EDISON, NJ — A dramatic and powerful water geyser doused two Woodbrooke Drive homes for a few hours on Monday afternoon when a 30-inch water main burst. The force of the water was so strong that it peeled away roof shingles on one house at 60 Woodbrooke Drive, and may have caused other damage at ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Described as a structure of artistic, architectural, and historical importance, a unique little white house on School Street in Piscataway listed on national and state registers of historic places was recently purchased by a buyer who has begun clearing the property to make way for ...