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By COLETTE DOUDIN
April 29, 2024
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 ...
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 ...
BAYONNE, NJ - Is Saint Andrew's church closing? Parishioners will have to wait to find out. While attendees at an April 4 meeting hoped to get some answers from church officials about the future of the church, they were told instead to submit their questions in writing and that they’d be ...
SPARTA, NJ – In what could have implications beyond Sparta, Hon. Stuart Minkowitz has ruled that people who have joined a Facebook page can be removed from the planning board. Mega warehouse developer Diamond Chip Realty sued the Sparta Township Planning Board claiming eight members should be ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — A GoFundMe page for the family of slain 9-year-old Christian Naszier Rivera has raised more than $57,000 as of today, with over 950 people and organizations pledging donations, according to the online website. The crowdfunding page, called The Christian Naszier Rivera Memorial ...
TRENTON, NJ -- A court decision issued by U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi on Friday has effectively upended the decades-long system under which candidates for office compete to receive the "county line" for their respective party's support in a primary election. The court case was initiated ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – The accolades keep coming for one Piscataway native turned head track coach at Northeastern University. Tramaine Shaw, a 2004 Piscataway High School graduate, was named CAA Coach of the Year for Northeastern University (NU) in Boston. This marks the ninth time Shaw has received ...
Fisher-Price is recalling about 204,000 Little People Mickey and Friends Figures due to a choking hazard, announced the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. The heads of the Donald Duck and Daisy Duck figures can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children, said the ...
ROXBURY, NJ - An Irvington woman and an accomplice in October robbed a man in the Roxbury Motel and fled the area after leaving the man with a gunshot wound he sustained during a struggle for the weapon, according to authorities. The woman, Auraceli Maldonado, 24, was found in Florida on Nov. 2 ...
NEWARK, NJ — NJ Transit plans to start replacing older gasoline-fueled vans with modern, battery-powered electric ones to shuttle senior citizens and people with disabilities. To accomplish this sustainability switch, NJ Transit said it will piggyback on a Michigan Department of Transportation ...
UNION, NJ – Robert Constant, a successful children’s book author from Scotch Plains, NJ, will host a panel of speakers and readers at an “Assault on Illiteracy” event presented by the Omicron Chi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at Barnes & Noble (2401 Rte. 22 West in Union, NJ), on ...
Governor Murphy and the New Jersey Legislature created the Affordable New Jersey Communities for Homeowners and Renters (ANCHOR) program to provide property tax relief for eligible homeowners and renters. New Jersey residents who meet program criteria can receive up to $1,750 in property tax ...
WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ — The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University has announced a new 30,000-square-foot building to house the Archives, the Center for American Music, related exhibition galleries and a 230-seat, state-of-the-art theater. Bruce ...
NORTH BERGEN, NJ - Vowing to stay in place as New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Bob Menendez said on Monday that he will be vindicated once all the facts in the case against him are presented. America’s justice system is based on the concept of innocent until proven guilty, Menendez said at a ...
NEWARK, NJ — Essex County officials say plans are underway to improve rainwater drainage problems and install synthetic turf on three ball fields at the city’s 360-acre Branch Brook Park to make them safer and more readily usable. Work at what’s known as the park’s “three diamonds,” should ...
NEWARK, NJ — The 24 Coach USA bus line is Abdul Salaam's main mode of transportation. So, the news that Coach USA will discontinue the O.N.E. Bus routes 24, 31, and 44, beginning Oct. 8 did not sit well with Salaam, who was on his way home from a doctor’s appointment Monday afternoon, and said ...
NEWARK, NJ — The independent monitor for a federal consent decree over Newark’s police division discussed progress in the court-mandated effort to improve the quality of the city's policing as community members voiced concerns about public safety on Monday, Aug. 21. Peter C. Harvey, the monitor ...
NEW JERSEY - The State of New Jersey has the lowest number of underprivileged children in 2023, according to a study done by WalletHub. The personal finance website ranked all 50 US states, and the District of Columbia, by a total score based on each state's ranking in the following categories; ...
ROXBURY, NJ - A Succasunna woman has launched an online fundraiser to help Sherene Aun, the daughter of TAPinto Roxbury's owner, following a motorcycle accident that left her critically injured. The GoFundMe page - reachable by clicking here - was created by Roxbury High School graduate Samantha ...
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Rock legend and Sayreville native Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, attended the opening of the Project HOME "Inn of Amazing Mercy" residence that they helped fund in Philadelphia on Thursday, August 3. According to CBS News, Bon Jovi and his wife donated $300,000 to ...
NEW JERSEY -- Two days after Lieutenant Governor Sheila Y. Oliver passed away, Governor Phil Murphy announced a three-day “Celebration of Life” that will pay tribute to Lieutenant Governor Oliver’s extraordinary life and legacy of public service. The Lt. Governor, who was 71 years old, is ...
NEWTON, NJ—The Newton Town Council is considering a draft ordinance, presented by Newton Police Department’s Chief Steve VanNieuwland and Town Attorney, Eric Bernstein, that would implement a curfew for the town's youth. Increase in negative interactions between juveniles and police were cited as ...
NEWARK, NJ — An off-duty Rutgers-Newark security officer and Marine Corps veteran died in a weekend shooting outside a North Ward nightclub, authorities said. Police, dispatched to a 3:15 a.m. shooting on Saturday, July 22, outside the North Ward’s Marbella Lounge on Broadway, found 32-year-old ...
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - JESPY House, a South Orange, New Jersey-based non-profit organization that has supported adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for 45 years, recently announced the largest gift in its history: a $13.25 million matching gift from The Leon and Toby Cooperman ...
NEWARK, NJ — Award-winning playwright Pia Wilson has written a play for the Yendor Theatre Company’s Neighborhood Theatre Initiative to be performed in August for free at outdoor venues throughout the city. Wilson, a city native, calls “Newark an amazing arts town,” with “an amazing history.” ...
TRENTON, NJ - Officials at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority are reminding eligible organizations that applications are now being accepted for a total of $10 million in funding that has been made available by the NJEDA to “reactivate and revitalize Atlantic City and Newark’s commercial ...
NEWARK, NJ — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin is making an example of four young Newark men who allegedly touched off a “dangerous high-speed chase” in a stolen car, slammed it into other cars, and tried to injure detectives who got in their way. State Police arrested the alleged driver, ...
The Newark Public Schools superintendent is standing by the district’s decision to heavily redact a settlement agreement provided to TAPinto Newark through requests under the state’s Open Public Records Act — redactions the news outlet has sued the school district to have removed. While ...
PARAMUS, NJ - A 14-year-old driver and 16-year-old passenger with a parakeet were arrested after attempting to elude police in a stolen vehicle. Two juvenile males from Essex County were arrested today, according to Police Chief Robert Guidetti, for the following infractions: A 14-year-old ...
NEWARK, NJ — An expansion of the local rent-control regulations for certain properties not already under the city's long-held rent-control law is again in front of City Council after concerns raised by council members were not included in a version of the regulation approved earlier this ...
