RAHWAY — The Move Your Money project, a nationwide campaign, came to Rahway to encourage people to divest from the largest Wall Street banks and invest in local financial institutions and chided the city government for ‘sleeping with the enemy’…
RAHWAY — City police solved fewer than one out of four reported crimes in the city last year, according to current State Police data but that shoddy record is not stopping interim Mayor Samson Steinman from using taxpayer money to boast that violent…
UNION COUNTY — Democrats in Linden and Rahway will have competitive races in the June 3 primary election, as Democrats for Change reformers again pose challenges to the regular political organization. Three mayoral candidates are vying for support in Linden,…
ELIZABETH — Jurors found Marie Munn, the former president of the Elizabeth school board, guilty of of theft by deception and tampering with public records for stealing from the district’s federal free lunch program. The panel found 49-year-old Munn understated her household income,…
RAHWAY — Residents will have a choice between Hillside township administrator Samson Steinman and Rahway Democrat James J. Devine in the upcoming mayoral primary election, scheduled for Tuesday, June 3. Devine, a strategist who managed all of former Rahway Mayor Jim…
by rocky-o There are few songwriters around (especially these days) that can actually write a story in a song. Of course Bob Dylan still springs to mind, as well as other ‘folkies’ like Leonard Cohen, Tina Vero, etc…and I love…
By Van Jones NATIONAL — If you took out a loan a few years ago to buy a flashy sports car, you could save buckets of money by refinancing at today’s low rates. But if you did the smart thing and…
UNION COUNTY — Hillside Township Mayor Angela Garretson appointed interim Rahway Mayor Samson Steinman as her municipality’s business administrator on a temporary basis. Sources say Steinman is negotiating a compensation package well above the $25,000 annual salary set for the…
Rahway’s Taste of Spring, one of the top annual restaurant and gourmet food marketing events in the metropolitan area, will be held on Friday, April 11, from 5:30-9 p.m. Extensive damage to the Rahway Recreation Center caused by Superstorm Sandy…
By Diane Norek Harrison ELIZABETH – The following is from Joan Busch: “I remember working in the Singer Manufacturing Company, shopping Thursday nights on Broad Street and Twin City Arena skating. There were seven movie theaters and busses to everywhere.…
