FANWOOD – The Carriage House Poetry Series in Fanwood has invited the public to attend a poetry reading by Gerald Stern and Anne Marie Macari on Tuesday, May 19. The free poetry performances will begin promptly at 8 p.m. in the Patricia Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall. […]
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that a former senior payroll clerk for the New Jersey Department of Human Services was indicted today for allegedly using her work computer to generate false insurance cards for herself and three others. She also allegedly stole public assistance benefits by creating false documents to claim childcare […]
LINDEN — At approximately, 4:25 a.m. today, Linden dispatch received a call for a structure fire at the 600 block of Zeigler Ave. The Linden Fire Department quickly contained the single room content fire and the fire was under control by 4:55 a.m. Two residents along with two Linden Police Officers were transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation, one resident to […]
UNION COUNTY — A Michigan woman has been charged with multiple criminal offenses after engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a Union County juvenile over the course of more than a year, having first made contact with the victim online when he was 11, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park announced. Jessica Carlton, 44, of Grand Rapids, Mich., […]
WESTFIELD, NJ — The Westfield Police Department is looking for a missing man, 75-year-old James Flynn of Westfield. Flynn was reported missing from his residence on the 400 block of West Broad Street in Westfield late on Wednesday, April 29. Flynn’s daughter spoke with him at 5:30 p.m. that day and planned to meet him at his […]
WESTFIELD, NJ — A green heron was saved from a painful end in Lenape Park on April 15, when Union County volunteers and personnel came to the rescue and freed the bird from an errant fishing line. “Thanks to the quick thinking of our citizens and county employees, this graceful bird can continue to enrich […]
ELIZABETH – This weekend firefighters and citizens from Elizabeth were honored at the New Jersey State Firefighter’s Mutual Benevolent Association Valor Awards Banquet. The event was held at Pines Manor and hosted by Tony Caputo who described the event as “honoring the bravest of the brave.” Firefighters Oscar Barreto, Dean Melachrinos and Brendan McConway were awarded the 2015 […]
TRENTON – A Middlesex County, lawyer and certified public accountant was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison for conspiring with a New Jersey mortgage broker to extort and defraud victims by falsely representing to them that they were the subjects of criminal investigations, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Thomas G. Frey, 55, of Edison, previously pleaded […]
SUMMIT — Nolan Asch, a lifelong student of history, will speak to the Old Guard of Summit at its Tuesday, May 12 meeting. He will speak on “Winston Churchill, the Early Years.” Asch is a member of several historical societies and has been a consultant for a coming Broadway show on historical themes. He will present […]
SCOTCH PLAINS — The Fanwood-Scotch Plains UnitedHealthcare Health Bee took place this past Tuesday at the Fanwood Scotch Plains YMCA. In the first picture from Tuesday’s event, Seventh grade students from Kumpf Middle School cheer after correctly answering a question in the second annual Health Bee at the Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA. The Kumpf Middle School […]