Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By TAPINTO STAFF
July 13, 2024
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Stop & Shop is closing 10 “under-performing” supermarkets throughout New Jersey, including three here in Middlesex County. Scheduled to close their doors on or before Nov. 2nd are Stop & Shop stores at 1083 Inman Ave. and 1049 US Highway 1 South in Edison; and 581 ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Representing "The Pantry" at the Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, East Brunswick's very own Chef Maricel Gentile, of Maricel's Kitchen put up a tough fight in Middlesex County's REPLENISH annual hunger awareness dinner on July 11. Chef Maricel "cooked off" against ...
NEW JERSEY — Okay, maybe Phil Murphy didn’t make it onto a new 'Top 10 List' of most popular U.S. governors. Take heart: The Garden State governor's annual $175,000 paycheck looks darn affordable compared to the nine higher-paid governors who topped him in another recent national study. An ...
I'm Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, July 12. “Rick Fink” is playing at Curtains tonight at 7 pm, and comedian “Big Irish Jay” is at the Avenel Performing Arts Center at 8 pm on Saturday. The St. John Vianney Church Fair is tonight and tomorrow night from 6 pm to 11 pm at their ...
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey dropped six spots in CNBC’s “America’s Top States for Business in 2024” list, from No. 19 in 2023 to No. 25 this year. The Garden State’s overall ranking placed it below neighboring states New York (No. 22) and Pennsylvania (No. 17) on the list. New Jersey outranked ...
OLD BRIDGE, NJ — Two local men face criminal charges in a June 2, 2024 multi-car accident on Route 9 that killed a 31-year-old Manalapan woman, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said. One of the drivers involved, Wilson Familia, 22, of Old Bridge, is charged with one count of ...
EDISON, NJ — A township man has bequeathed his entire estate to the Cape May County Zoo, totaling a $1.4 million donation, according to the Cape May County Board of County Commissioners. The late Charles Muller, a long-time supporter of the zoo, died Sept. 29, 2022,at age 93. It took two years ...
NEWARK/MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — An East Brunswick teenager faces federal charges, accused in a plot to destroy electric substations in Middlesex County. Andrew Takhistov, 18, was arrested Wednesday at Newark Liberty International Airport, where he was planning to travel to Paris, France on ...
NEW JERSEY — Dengue, a virus spread to people through mosquito bites, has infected at least 47 people in New Jersey this year, according to the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, as of Thursday, there have been at least 2,559 cases ...
ROSELLE, NJ — This borough's suspended Police Chief Stacey L. Williams has been fired from that $210,800 post, 10 months after being relieved of duty, accused of making “homophobic” comments to his officers. Attorney Patrick P. Toscano Jr., from Caldwell, who represents Williams, has already ...
EDISON, NJ — The township Police Department is mourning the loss of 39-year-old Lt. Donald Ship, a 13-year police veteran. Ship’s cause of death has not been made public, and funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. Ship’s “efforts touched the hearts of many, as he spearheaded ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — Carol Bongiovi, the mother of rock star Jon Bon Jovi and a former Sayreville resident, died at age 83 on Tuesday, July 9, three days short of her 84th birthday, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, according to PEOPLE magazine. A native of Erie, PA, Carol Sharkey enlisted ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Few tears were shed in East Brunswick when the notorious Hostways Hotel and businesses near it were torn down in 1993. Local lore is full of stories about the pyramid-shaped building, built in 1963 as the prototype for the Ivory Tower Hotel Group. Many of those shady ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez (D, LD-19) is devising legislation that would prohibit landlords from using rent-setting software that she says drives apartment prices up. “As the costs of housing, especially in the rental market, continue to increase, the last thing working ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Alexander Liu said the manager at Walgreens on North Avenue apologized to him after a cashier there called him “ching chong ching” instead of his name last month. Liu, a 48-year-old Westfield resident who is of Chinese-Cuban descent, said the cashier uttered the slur when he went ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark’s Keith “Tsunami” Colon was doing so much damage to his opponent by the second round of his professional boxing debut on Saturday night that the referee stopped the fight. Colon, 21, won his match against Tennessee’s Hunter Turbyfill, 29, with a technical knockout, according ...
CAMDEN, NJ — George E. Norcross III, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a state grand jury indictment, with his attorney saying that Norcross did what he did for the good of Camden and Cooper University Health Care. The South Jersey Democratic kingpin and several others were targets of a June ...
CARTERET, NJ — With the federal government proposing new rules to address excessive heat in the workplace, the Middlesex County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund (MCMJIF) said that ongoing training is key to keeping employees safe. The Joint Insurance Fund offers voluntary safety training courses ...
CARTERET, NJ — Properties along Port Reading Avenue, near this borough’s border with Woodbridge, could be redeveloped for a large, new three-story Sikh temple. The Carteret Zoning Board of Adjustment is to decide this significant proposal on Tuesday, July 16, from Singh Sabha Inc., a Sikh ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — A 56-year-old graphic designer, and a devoted family man, tragically died on a Texas vacation, trying to save his father-in-law from drowning. Texas authorities and media reports say Gary Wong died on June 30th after a mishap at Balmorhea State Park at San Solomon Springs, ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- Rob Fessock grew up in South Plainfield, graduated from South Plainfield High School and attended Towson University, where he joined ROTC. "I was partying and didn’t have direction until I joined the military. He continued with ROTC at Loyola College, and then I graduated ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — The typical Rutgers undergraduate student will face a 4% tuition increase for the 2024-25 academic year, and mandatory student fees will also rise by 4%. Additionally, housing room rates and residents’ education fees will go up 6% and dining plan rates will increase by 8% for ...
CARTERET, NJ — A badly burned man was helicoptered to a Livingston hospital on Sunday after a two-alarm fire broke out in the basement of a Roosevelt Avenue home. The cause of the June 7th fire at 694 Roosevelt Avenue – near Hayward Avenue and down the street from the Nathan Hale School – ...
CARTERET, NJ — Drag race celebrity-driver Elizabeth “Lizzy” Musi – who grew up in this Middlesex County community – has lost her toughest challenge against breast cancer at age 33. Elizabeth Patricia Musi was born and raised here, and was a 2009 Carteret High School graduate. She went on to ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — A large warehouse-distribution corporation has leased a 342,000-square-foot building at the new Arsenal Trade Center (Arsenal) off Callahan Boulevard. JW Fulfillment, Inc., headquartered in North Brunswick on the East Coast and in Montclair, CA on the West Coast, is a growing ...
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — Six people, including two cops, sustained smoke inhalation and burns after a July 3 fire destroyed a stately 149-year-old Queen Anne-style apartment building on Water Street. Eight families were left temporarily homeless. Firefighters and police rushed over to 61-63 Water ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Youngsters from this Central Jersey community learned first-hand what it's like to be a volunteer or professional firefighter. Woodbridge Fire Company No. 1 annually hosts the Junior Fire Academy to give teenagers hands-on lessons in fire suppression, extrication methods, ...
EUGENE, OR — East Brunswick High School grad Sam Mattis is assured to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris after he recently finished second in the men’s Olympic trials in Oregon. This 30-year-old, 2012 high school grad, a East Brunswick native, entered the qualifying competition ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Anchor’s Tiki Bar officially opens today at the municipal marina along the Sewaren waterfront, just in time to enjoy on Independence Day weekend. The 215-seat full-service bar will be open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, July 6, and on Sunday, July 7, according to Mayor John E.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Sentencing will be next week for a former special education teacher at Sayreville Middle School who pleaded guilty to child endangerment and to other criminal offenses involving youngsters. Superior Court Judge Benjamin S. Bucca is to sentence 46-year-old John Denuto, who ...