Archive for December, 2011

RAHWAY - Union County and participating municipalities are about to see millions of dollars in savings and direct budget relief under the terms of a deal between the Union County Utilities Authority and Covanta Energy, officials announced Monday. »

CLARK– In the spirit of the holiday season, second grade students in Frank K. Hehnly Elementary School in Clark decided to donate their class gift money to charity rather than receive presents themselves. »

CLARK -- Students in Nicole Reagan's second grade class at Valley Road School in Clark have been studying communities in Social Studies. Second grader Jon Spricigo is pictured with the community that he built out of Lego building blocks. »

CLARK -- The Skulski Art Gallery of the Polish Cultural Foundation in Clark is presenting paintings and prints by Polish artist Edmund Korzeniewski at exhibit titled “Churchill and others” through Dec. 31. »

CLARK -- Books across America are annually nominated for the Newbery Awards and Caldecott Awards. This year at Valley Road School in Clark, the fifth graders in Kelly Cahill's class created a new award called the Cahillcott Award. They have been studying several different story elements and techniques that have made certain authors' books... »

CLARK -- As a means of learning number facts, pupils in Jackie Grigoli’s kindergarten class at Valley Road School in Clark sorted dominoes by the number of dots on them. »

NEW BRUNSWICK – Kiameesha Evans, MPH, MCHES, program director of the Office of Community Outreach at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), has been selected to take part in a unique pilot program for cancer control practitioners through the National Cancer Institute (NCI). CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson... »

McLEAN, Va. -- New Jersey City University women's soccer senior striker Julia Caseres (Union) has been honored on the national stage for excellence in academics and athletics. »

NEW BRUNSWICK – A Highland Park karate school teacher has been sentenced to a three-year prison term for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, and, in a separate incident, improperly touching another 16-year-old girl, Middlesex County First Assistant Prosecutor Julia L. McClure announced today. »

STATE – Over 2.2 million New Jersey residents will travel 50 miles or more from home for Christmas and New Year’s, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic projections, a slight increase over last year’s statistics. The 2011 year-end holiday travel period is defined as Friday, Dec. 23 to Monday, Jan. 2. »

ELIZABETH -- At the start of the 2011-12 academic year, Benedictine Academy students made a commitment to perform “911 good deeds”, in remembrance of the good lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. Since making that pledge, the students have been performing small acts of kindness, giving generously to help those in need, and volunteering... »

PERTH AMBOY – Police are seeking the suspect in a Sunday afternoon robbery that took place on the 400 block of State Street. »

PARAMUS– As consumers flock to retailers during the holiday season and as the use of prepaid cards continues to expand rapidly, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced this past Saturday, Dec. 17, The Prepaid Card Consumer Protection Act to curb hidden fees associated with many of these cards. »

PERTH AMBOY – Police arrested two men on Saturday afternoon after responding to a report of shots fired in the area of Smith and McClellan streets. »

CLARK -- Students at Mother Seton Regional High School in Clark recently attended an assembly about the Invisible Children of Central Africa. »

ELIZABETH – On Friday, a Plainfield man was convicted of first degree robbery and weapon possession stemming from a 2008 robbery by knifepoint on Clinton Avenue, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow announced. »

EDISON – Students at Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison have been learning about the different holidays celebrated in December and participating in a variety of activities. »

CLARK -- The Clark Board of Education honored the Arthur L. Johnson Field Hockey Team, North II Group 2 Sectional State Champions, for their fourth championship over the last four years at the school board’s December Showcase of Success. The team finished the season with a final record of 19-6, and a second consecutive... »

The final Republican presidential debate in advance of the Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation Iowa party caucuses produced a few claims we found worthy of quibbling over. »

Newt Gingrich earned some $600,000 as a consultant to a major ethanol lobbying group, not the $312,500 that the organization, called Growth Energy, disclosed last spring. »