RAHWAY -- On Monday April 4, 20 students from Rahway High School went to the MetroWest Holocaust Council in Whippany to have lunch. Ordinarily this would not be an important event, but this was an opportunity for the students, along with those from two other high schools to spend time with Holocaust survivors. »
POMPTON LAKES – As part of their ongoing community support, Columbia Bank is making a special effort to purchase replacement home appliances for a select group of homeowners affected by the heavy flooding that recently took place throughout northern New Jersey. »
RAHWAY--In honor of National Engineers Week on March 31, teachers Tania Rojas and Pam Cook, two Rahway High School faculty members who are engineers, took a group of potential future engineers to the 13th Annual Career Day at Infineum USA LP in Linden. »
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- Army Pvt. Jeffrey E. Ferreiras, son of Silvia A. Rivera of Elizabeth, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo. »
COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Army National Guard Pvt. Leonardo J. Almeida has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. »
LINDEN -- In Linden’s recent Tri-Meet with Elizabeth and Plainfield, Linden High School Track and Field Shot Put Andrew Frazier placed 1st »
SCOTCH PLAINS – The Union Catholic High School Student Council hosted a dress-down day fundraiser on March 25, raising $3,835 for the relief efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. »
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” It costs money to make this country hum. Anyone can see that it would be impossible to have roads crisscrossing the country, federal jails and courts, national parks and monuments, environmental protection that has no boundaries,... »
NEW BRUNSWICK -- An Edison man has pleaded guilty to charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child, admitting he strangled a North Brunswick woman in her apartment and then abandoned their 20-month-old daughter at a gas station in Delaware. »
TRENTON – Former Perth Amboy Mayor Joseph Vas was sentenced to eight years in prison on state corruption charges filed by the Attorney General’s Office. Earlier this week, Vas was sentenced to 6 ½ years on federal charges. »
STATE – With fuel costs still on the rise, Sen. Robert Menendez again called upon President Barack Obama to release 50 million gallons of oil from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserves. »
TRENTON – The state’s unemployment rate climbed to 9.3 percent in March, up 0.1 percentage points from February, even as New Jersey employers added 4,600 jobs. »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than four in 10 offenders return to state prison within three years of their release, according to a study released this week by the Pew Center on the States. »
PERTH AMBOY — Supporters of Dianne Roman who believe ‘no news is good news’ allegedly removed thousands of newspapers from local outlets to prevent readers from seeing accusations that the former city administrator engaged in wrongdoing. »
SAYREVILLE -- Government officials took part in a ground breaking ceremony on April 8 for a county project to improve the Ernston Road and Bordentown Amboy Turnpike intersection, one of the county’s most congested. »
April 7 at 12:41 a.m. – Officers Christopher Guenther and Ricardo Oliveira responded to a report of a motor vehicle theft in progress on the 1000 block of Clinton Street. Police arrested a 17-year-old Newark teen, but two other suspects escaped after crashing a vehicle into a police patrol car. The officers were not... »
STATE -- New Jersey pays thousands of white-collar state employees an annual uniform-maintenance stipend, yet nearly half of those employees do not wear a uniform, according to a report released this week by the Office of the State Comptroller. »
TRENTON-- Fifty-six new districts will take part in the Interdistrict Public School Choice program in the 2011-2012 school year, increasing and improving educational opportunities for children and families, Acting Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced Thursday. »
EDISON – The township’s popular Family Fishing Derby will be held on Saturday, May 7, from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., at Lake Papaianni in Papaianni Park, Edison. »
CRANFORD—A representative of SCORE will provide a free seminar, "How to Start a Home-Based Business," at the Cranford Community Center, 220 Walnut Avenue, on Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. »
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