UNION —Members of the Union Police Department responded to Chase Bank at 1224 Stuyvesant Ave. at 3:03 p.m. yesterday on a report of a bank robbery. Officers on scene determined the bank had been held up by one man, who presented a threatening note. The teller gave the man some money and he fled the bank […]
UNION — The Union Police Department is currently asking the public for help to locate a missing person. The woman, Carol Saunders-Corbin, is a resident of The Pointe Condos located on Rt. 22 on the eastbound side. She is a 57-year-old woman who went out for walk about 9:30, but did not return to her […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County Department of Parks and Recreation has released details of its annual Deer Management Program, which began Monday, Jan. 4, in six county parks and one municipal park. The program will operate in the Watchung Reservation, the Summit portion of Passaic River Park, Ash Brook Reservation, Lenape Park, Nomahegan […]
Ira Weiss passed away Saturday, December 26, 2015 after a sudden illness. He was 67. Born in Newark, N.J., he lived in Hillside before moving to Springfield in 1970, where he lived for the past 45 years. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Farleigh Dickinson University and was the owner of Weiss […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A sensory-friendly performance of “Bubble Trouble” comes to the stage at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m. A bubble volcano. Bubble roller coaster. A kid in a bubble? Jeff Boyer takes bubbles to the max in this one-man bubble extravaganza. Boyer juggles […]
By Rebecca Panico, Correspondent UNION COUNTY, NJ — Standing behind businesses along Broad Street in Elizabeth stands the Union County Jail, where those who are awaiting trial are held. It’s a not-so-welcoming place to be. But for recently appointed Director of the Union County Department of Corrections Ronald Charles, jail is where he’s always worked. Charles […]
By Daniel Jackovino, Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A Bloomfield man has been charged with the strangulation death of a Rahway woman, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday, Dec. 16. According to authorities, Roberto Grillo, 36, is alleged to have murdered Yolanda Vega, 35, in her Beacon Street home. Rahway police responded to the scene […]
Martha S. Bronner, 92, of Union, NJ, died on December 13, 2015. She was born in Newark, NJ, grew up in Irvington and moved to Union in 1947. After graduating from Irvington High School in 1940, she was chief clerk of the Irvington, NJ, state motor vehicle agency until 1954 when she became a […]
CRANFORD — A weekend of celebrations began on Dec. 5 for Margaret Steiner, a fourteen year resident at Atria Senior Living in Cranford as this Harley Davidson motorcycle riding great-grandmother celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family. Four generations of family gathered in the Atria’s Country Kitchen including her son Ralph, daughter Judy, their spouses, […]
EDITORIAL At Kean University, a coalition of ministers is calling for the resignation of University President Dawood Farahi due to what has been described as a “culture of fear” on campus as it relates to racial issues. And while we do not want to undercut the concerns of the ministers, we would like to point […]