By KENNETH SIMMONS
April 26, 2024PISCATAWAY, NJ – A federal grant has been secured to help cover the costs of upgrading ...
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By DAWN MILLER
April 26, 2024
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The Spotswood High School varsity baseball team completed the season sweep over South River High School on Thursday in dramatic fashion. Down 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Carter Cumiskey banged one of his three singles to right field to jump start the comeback. Will Buchan then ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ - Ava Mormile continued to dominate on the mound for the Spotswood High School varsity softball team on Thursday. Mormile threw a no-hitter to help the Chargers secure the team's 11th victory of the season. The junior, who earned her 300th career strike earlier this month, struck out ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A federal grant has been secured to help cover the costs of upgrading the Piscataway Police Department’s radio and communication systems. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) held a press conference on the front lawn of the township municipal building on Thursday to announce that ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - WWII aviator Donald Stern, who survived 32 combat missions in Italy as a bombardier onboard a B17 Flying Fortress, returned to the skies Thursday, taking off from Central Jersey Airport with his son Russel and pilot, Ret. Air Force Major Glenn Sinibaldi, who briefly handed over ...
MILLTOWN, NJ - April 24 was a very special lunchtime for Joyce Kilmer Fourth Grader Calvin Corrigan. Corrigan was the grand prize winner in the fifth annual Pomptonian Healthy School Lunch Challenge. On Wednesday, his recipe, a Berry SPUDtacular Brunch, was featured on the lunch menu along with ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ - The Spotswood High School golf team continued to roll this week. Spotswood won a multischool meet with New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and JFK on Wednesday at the Raritan Landing Golf Course. The victories improved the Chargers overall season record to 9-1-1. Spotswood's only loss this ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- Families who live on the Scotch Plains postal route of mail carrier Mickey Casey are expressing an outpouring of love for their longtime mailman. He not only knows the addresses along the route, but also the first names of family members, and even their pets. To many, he has ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — A lifelong love of games and a rare experience of having appeared on multiple game shows paid off recently when Westfield resident Scott Menke reached the final round of “Wheel of Fortune,” and had to solve the final phrase. Hostess Vanna White lit up the board with a few letters, ...
CRANFORD, NJ – For anyone who grew up in town, the Cranford Barber Shop has been a mainstay. A fixture in the downtown since 1912, the shop hasn’t changed much since Amasio Marsiglia arrived from Italy in 1955 to take over the shop from his uncle, Fred Casoni. Generations passed through the ...
CAMDEN, nj — Some Camden City School District students are likely still reminiscing about spring break or looking ahead to summer vacation. Dyannis Rosario, a 10th grader at Creative Arts High School, told TAPinto Camden she has something even more thrilling to think about: her upcoming trip to ...
NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr., a former Newark city councilman who died on Wednesday, April 24, led a political life from the cradle to the grave. The son of late Congressman Donald M. Payne, who left a legendary legacy in county and national politics, Don Jr. worked hard to establish ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Judge Barnett Hoffman presided over more than 325 criminal trials, including more than 50 first-degree murder cases, and he somehow managed to do it with dignity, compassion and a touch of humor. Many times over his 19 years as a judge in the Middlesex County Superior Court’s ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Suck in your gut, shimmy into your old Scarlet Knights hoodie and get ready to party like it’s 1999. Or 2011. Or 1976. Thousands of alumni from graduating classes spanning the decades will make the pilgrimage to the Banks of the Old Raritan on Saturday for Rutgers Day. It’s a free ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - East Brunswick resident and composer, Dr. Jihee Han, will have her newest composition, “Jido Arirang” for violin and piano, premiered on May 19 at the “Celebrate AANHPI” concert at Westminster Conservatory of Music in Princeton, NJ. Han is a composer and music educator from ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - At a meeting attended by several hundred residents at the JMPAC at Hammarskjold Upper Elementary School on Wednesday night, East Brunswick Superintendent Dr. Victor Valeski took to the podium to explain the current budget proposal facing the township's public schools. All ...
PARAMUS, NJ — As the ambulance pulls into the emergency driveway, it waits a moment for the neighboring town’s rescue squad to pull out. Once inside, the EMT is unsure where to park the stretcher with all the rooms filled and patients overflowing into the hallways. This has been the scene at local ...
WILLIAMSTOWN, NJ - Brian Gallagher, the 60-year-old mayor of Somerville, NJ made history early Tuesday morning as the only mayor of the Somerset County borough to ever jump from an airplane over the bright blue skies of southern New Jersey. "Awesome, what a rush, it was exhilarating," Gallagher ...
FAIR LAWN, NJ - Thoughts about memory loss for a teen are scary and confusing. Healthy teens, after all, really have no basis in what it's like not to remember short term, nor long term memories, but Christina "Emi" Southgate did. Her grandmother, Mitsuko Matusuda, was diagnosed in 2023 with ...
TRENTON, NJ – More older adults and individuals with disabilities in New Jersey are now eligible to save on prescription drug prices, Medicaid premiums, hearing aids, utilities and other household expenses using the NJSave application, thanks to an increase in income eligibility ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The highlights keep coming for the Spotswood High School varsity track and field teams. Eleven Chargers have qualified and will be participating in the upcoming Penn Relays on Thursday, April 25 through Saturday, April 27 at Franklin Park in Philadelphia. Spotswood's Kayla Louis, ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - Ava Mormile picked up another victory on the mound for the Spotswood High School varsity softball team on Tuesday. Spotswood defeated Woodbridge High School 3-2 for the Chargers' 10th win of the season. Mormile went the distance for Spotswood, pitching seven innings and giving up ...
SOUTH RIVER, NJ - The Spotswood High School varsity baseball team locked down the Chargers' 10th victory of the season behind a two-hit shutout by Carter Cumiskey at Grekoski Park on Tuesday. Cumiskey went the distance for the undefeated Chargers, pitching six innings and striking out nine in the ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - On March 21, East Brunswick High School's International Politics, Law, and Economics (IPLE I H) students completed the UrbanPlan project and presented their individual redevelopment plans of the fictitious "Elmwood district in Yorktown" to a representational town council headed ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - Spotswood High School's defending Greater Middlesex Conference White Division champs are hosting Youth Softball Night on Friday, April 26. The 9-2 Chargers varsity softball team is hosting East Brunswick High School. All youth softball players are invited to come out and watch the ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - Due to the installation of a new circulation desk, the Spotswood Public Library will be closed from Monday, April 29 through Saturday, May 4. All previously scheduled programs next week are canceled. The library's outdoor book drop will remain open during the closure. Library ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ - The Spotswood High School boys tennis team's winning streak to open the 2023-24 season was stopped on Monday by Sayreville War Memorial High School. Spotswood lost to the Bombers 4-1. Corey Miller earned the lone match point for the Chargers. Miller won the first set over ...
CAMDEN, NJ – A big strength of the city’s public education ecosystem is that parents can choose a traditional city school, a charter school or a renaissance school for their children, says a leading proponent of education in Camden. "When we talk about a great education for every single child in ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Henry Inman Public Library branch in Colonia has reopened, with a host of local officials on hand for a weekend tour of this newly-refurbished, million-dollar-plus facility. Closed to the public after it suffered Hurricane Ida’s 2021 flood damage, the Inman library branch now ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The woman behind the counter at the furniture store was surprised when Atiya Aftab produced a tax-exempt form at checkout. The chairperson of Center for Islamic Life explained that several chairs and tables had been destroyed during a recent break-in. “She said she hadn’t heard ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - She has had to keep it a secret - until now. Maricel, the owner and head chef of East Brunswick's newest foodie hotspot Maricel's Kitchen will appear on the Season six premiere of the Food Network’s hit show, "Supermarket Stakeout," hosted by the renowned chef Alex ...
