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By DINAH DUNN
April 28, 2024
CRANFORD, NJ – If you grew up in Cranford, someone in your family went to the Cranford Barber Shop. 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 ...
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 ...
Linden, NJ – The parent company of Elizabethtown Gas Co. broke ground Tuesday on a $440 million renewable energy project on the site of the former American Cynamid-Warners plant in Tremley Point. Once completed, the Linden Renewable Energy (LRE) project will become the nation's largest food ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Four Westfield High School students, who are part of the school’s chapter of Model United Nations, were selected to go to Philadelphia last week to watch the solar eclipse alongside Vice President Kamala Harris. Model UN is a program run as part of the civic engagement programs ...
NEW JERSEY, NJ - New Jersey is the least federally dependent state in America in 2024, according to a study done by WalletHub. The personal finance website ranked all 50 U.S. states by their own total score, which is based off each state's ranking in the following categories: State Residents’ ...
WEST ORANGE/EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -- The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) will be displaying Thomas Alva Edison's 1916 Model T car at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford after a brief visit to its owner's former residence and laboratory in West Orange as part of the upcoming Entertainment and ...
NEWARK, NJ — City youths who do not stay within 100 feet of their homes during certain nighttime hours could face police action starting Friday, April 12. The city announced that officers will enforce Newark's longstanding curfew ordinance, which prohibits people under 18 unaccompanied by an ...
Ten families comprising 25 adults and three children in Newark were displaced due to structural damage resulting from the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt across the region on Friday morning, the public safety director said. Firefighters responded to 313, 315, 317 7th Avenue on a call of ...
GLEN ROCK, NJ - Apologize and resign. That was the message from many individuals who said they were offended by Councilwoman Paula Gilligan's meme she recently posted on Instagram. The meme: "Easter eggs are aborted chicken babies that are painted in drag for small children to worship. Happy ...
NEPTUNE TOWNSHIP - Yesterday's Mega Millions $1.13 billion jackpot was won by a single ticket sold in New Jersey, and it confirmed by NJ Lottery that the lucky winner bought it here in Neptune Township. At today's press conference at ShopRite Liquor #781 (2200 Rt 66, Neptune Township) New Jersey ...
NEWARK, NJ — A significant expansion of the Newark Museum of Art that proposes the construction of 250 apartments and 2,598 square feet of retail space in downtown may be delayed as City Council withholds its award of a tax incentive to the developer. City officials said the move is to force L+M ...
A 2-year-old boy is in “stable” condition after falling out of a second-floor window in the 100 block of South 16th Avenue in Newark on Sunday night, March 17, police said. The boy’s mother carried him to the 4th precinct police station and police took him to University Hospital, Public Safety ...
CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey was quietly pushed into a 180-degree turn on the Delaware River just after noon on Thursday as it began a journey south to spend a couple of months for bow maintenance in dry dock at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. “Is it moving? Is it moving?” one spectator, ...
NEWARK — An investigation into the city’s nationally heralded replacement of lead water service lines found that of 90 residences examined so far, 12 still contained lead components, the state Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner said on Wednesday, March 20. DEP Commissioner Shawn ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Jersey City has recently highlighted a local pencil company in The Heights that has been operating in the city for over 13 decades. The General Pencil Company at 67 Fleet Street has been manufacturing writing utensils for use by everyone from school children to architects and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The woman who had bellied up to the counter was very pregnant and very hungry, but couldn’t cover the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich she had ordered. The man behind the register gruffly insisted that she cough up the $12.61 for the food. When bystander Violet Robinson heard ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — New Jersey’s largest health network broke ground on the nation’s first-of-its-kind, $200 million health and wellness center at MetroPark, a major transit hub on NJ Transit’s Northeast Corridor line. Hackensack Meridian Health executives joined Gov. Phil Murphy and other ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — The community raffle, created by the Westfield United Fund, was the non-profit’s new fundraising initiative that offered an exclusive experience for the winners. On March 8, Gauri Rijhsinghani, 7, and her brother, Anuj Rijhsinghani, 5, spent an afternoon learning about the roles ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — The community raffle, created by the Westfield United Fund, was the non-profit’s new fundraising initiative that offered an exclusive experience for the winners. On March 8, Gauri Rijhsinghani, 7, and her brother, Anuj Rijhsinghani, 5, spent an afternoon learning about the roles ...
TRENTON, NJ — Advocates for transparency and open government testified Monday, March 11, against an overhaul to the state’s Open Public Records Act as government interests lauded the measure. The bill (S-2930), which if passed would be the first major update to the state’s public records law in ...
The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers-Newark is now the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Race in Politics in America. University officials, along with state and local officials, renamed the school at a ceremony attended by family members of the late lieutenant governor on Friday, ...
ASBURY PARK, NJ - In June 2024, New Jersey is set to welcome back the North to Shore Festival for its second year, promising to eclipse its inaugural success with a vast array of performances and events spread across three of its most vibrant cities. After attracting hundreds of thousands of ...
UNION, NJ – The planting of bamboo, considered an invasive and difficult to control plant, will no longer be permitted in Union, according to an ordinance passed at Tuesday night’s Township Committee meeting. According to the ordinance, certain types of bamboo can cause significant damage to ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - It's a Leap Day baby for sure. The first of two American Bald Eagle eggs laid in the nest atop a 90-foot Sycamore tree in a wooded area along the Raritan River at Duke Farms cracked open over the course of several hours during the afternoon and early evening hours of Leap Day ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ – Two local residents with emergency medical training recently came to the aid of a gym member who collapsed while working out. On Feb. 19, Ameya Patel of Piscataway and Johnny Tsang of Dunellen were both in the right place at the right time. At approximately 6:30 p.m., ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The Heritage Middle School cafeteria hit capacity and a crowd gathered outside the school on Tuesday night as dozens of community members from Livingston and beyond addressed the Livingston Board of Education (LBOE) both in support of and in opposition to a registration-only event ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Fire broke out in a long-time Piscataway food pantry on Wednesday, destroying food and clothing donations earmarked for homeless and low-income families throughout the area. The 100-year-old building where FISH, Inc.–Dunellen Area operated and served the needs of thousands for ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — The facility that hosted a youth baseball game in 2022 where a Westfield boy was hit in the head by a line drive and seriously injured was negligent in allowing the use of aluminum bats and otherwise failing to protect young players, a new lawsuit asserts. The New York State ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Dorenia Villalona always took her customary seat at the end of the table as the student representative at the Board of Education meetings, sitting shoulder to shoulder with long-serving members such as Dr. Dale Caldwell, Benito Ortiz, Emra Seawood and Ed Spencer. So you can ...
The public should soon know the full taxpayer cost anticipated for the planned redevelopment of a dilapidated and historic school building in New Jersey’s largest city following a state Superior Court judge’s decision in a New Jersey Open Public Records Act case filed by TAPinto Newark. The ...
