Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By KENNETH SIMMONS
June 17, 2024
HACKENSACK, NJ — Police in Bergen County arrested a Piscataway man on attempted murder and weapons charges after investigators determined he was responsible for stabbing a 30-year-old driver who was leaving an Englewood Cliffs parking lot on Friday afternoon. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — TAPinto East Brunswick has confirmed with several sources that the investigation by the East Brunswick Schools into errors published in this year's Class of 2024 yearbook will conclude next week and a report with its findings will be issued. Following last week's posting ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Middlesex County welcomed Dr. Opal Lee, 2024 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," to kick off a month of events celebrating freedom and the county’s rich Black history and the significance of Juneteenth. Dr. Lee, now 97, propelled ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — An unidentified man, believed to be an out-of-state correction officer, took his own life with a gun on Friday evening at a Route 9 gas station convenience store, TAPinto Woodbridge learned today. Woodbridge police officers stopped the man, wanted for sexual assault in New York, ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A township police officer and an NYPD detective, wounded in a shootout with an armed suspect, were discharged from a New Brunswick hospital on Friday, where they were treated for their injuries, the N.J. Attorney General’s Office said in a prepared statement. The statement ...
This is Mayor John McCormac. It’s Friday, June 14, 2024. The “Goats” are playing at Curtains Restaurant tonight at 7 pm. Tomorrow, we have the Children’s Clothes Closet at the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge from 10 am to 1 pm and former baseball pitcher Pedro Martinez is signing ...
CARTERET, NJ — The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office has identified the alleged gunman in Wednesday’s double-shooting here as a 19-year-old man from Washington State, now charged in the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old woman and critically wounding her 20-year-old friend. Authorities charged ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — A 40-year-old township man is facing attempted murder and other charges for allegedly stabbing his mother multiple times at his Buttonwood Drive home, according to police. Heng H. Shao, 40, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ – Two police officers were wounded in a shootout with an armed man in the parking area between Royal Albert Banquet Hall and Raritan Hotel, off King George Post Road in the Fords section. A couple of well-placed police sources told TAPinto Woodbridge that the unidentified suspect ...
CARTERET, NJ — Boro Hall has awarded two major construction contracts, totaling $14.3 million, to companies that will lay the groundwork for Carteret’s upcoming commuter ferry service to Manhattan’s financial district. Carteret took a big step forward with a $7.9 million contract awarded to ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — Local and state leaders as well as representatives of the borough police department, board of education, recreation commission, and members of the municipality’s soccer association gathered on June 10th for a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the official reopening of South ...
CARTERET, NJ — Police have arrested the alleged gunman suspected of killing one woman on Wednesday morning and wounding a second woman in the driveway of a Roosevelt Avenue home in the borough’s West Carteret neighborhood. Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Police Chief Dennis ...
NEWARK, NJ — This city's Board of Education paid attorneys $54,520 in a failed attempt to keep secret its contract with a developer to build a museum at a school that it had sold many years ago, records obtained by TAPinto Newark show. This includes $24,520 in fees charged by the district’s ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Middlesex Water Co. is gearing up for a $9.7 million project in June to improve drinking water for a swath of this town’s homes and businesses, replacing old lead and galvanized steel pipes and valves, and upgrading fire hydrants. The Middlesex Water Company RENEW initiative for ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A man from Woodbridge’s Colonia section is among four people arrested in a sting operation on men seeking sex with underage children, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said on Tuesday. Peter Wissemann, 27, of Colonia, was arrested in Operation Cruel Summer, a ...
COLONIA, NJ -- Two members of the Colonia High School softball team have been named to the Greater Middlesex Conference's All-White Division Team. Myiah Sutton and Shelby DeCillis were both selected in a vote of the conference's coaches. Sutton was voted to the overall All-GMC Team. The ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — Reflecting the changing face of Sayreville – with many young professionals and commuters moving to town – Kaplan Companies has opened a luxury rental complex to accommodate the next generation of borough residents. Leaders of the Highland Park-based company joined with local ...
ISELIN, NJ -- Two members of the JFK-Iselin High School softball team have been named to the Greater Middlesex Conference All-White Division Team. Lorelei Lorentzen and Marialys Ricourt were both selected in a vote of the conference's coaches. Lorentzen, a junior center fielder, was voted to ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The local Planning Board is scheduled to hear a redevelopment proposal on Wednesday, June 12, to replace a Cutters Dock Road house and use adjacent properties for a two-building, 130-bay, self-storage facility. Scotch Plains-based Cutters Dock Road LLC seeks site plan and ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ — Known as the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’, 97-year-old activist Dr. Opal Lee spoke at the Piscataway Public Library’s Kennedy Branch to spread her message of freedom and explain what motivated her to walk to Washington, DC from her home in Ft. Worth, Texas in September 2016 to ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ — WWII veteran and retired advertising executive Greg Ruffa, a 99-year-old Scotch Plains resident, is living proof that “The Greatest Generation” can continue to give back. On June 7th, Ruffa invited Scotch Plains Mayor Josh Losardo and Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr to his home on ...
NEWARK, NJ — Gaza War protesters camped at Rutgers – Newark Law School took down their tents and left as university police surrounded them and ordered them to depart early on Sunday morning, according to protesters and university officials. Removal of the protestors, who coupled their demands ...
CARTERET, NJ — Borough Hall is seeking a new round of bids from builders for a three-season restaurant pavilion along the Arthur Kill with a gangway to connect it with the already-popular Veteran's Pier in Waterfront Park. The proposed pavilion is another highlight in Mayor Daniel J. Reiman’s ...
TRENTON, NJ — Two Carteret men are facing human trafficking charges along with a woman from Hunterdon County, according to Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and N.J. State Police. Desmond Bullock, 48, and Andrew Zeleniak, 31, both from Carteret; and Heather James, 37, of Whitehouse Station, ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Two aspiring dancers, from local high schools, made a stunning debut in an emerging rock artist’s recent music video. Teenage dancers, Emalee Rizitis and Leilani Wiggins, got a big break, appearing in a music video for “Qoya,” from velvety-voiced “Roxiny,” a Rolling Stone-lauded ...
People and families in Carteret and Woodbridge joined municipal officials to celebrate June as Pride Month 2024, with flag-raising events to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the “Stonewall Riots,” and the 25th anniversary of the first official Pride Month. Carteret held its Pride Day 2024 ...