RAHWAY, NJ — The Blue and Gold Club at Franklin Elementary School in Rahway recently made a special visit to the temperary Linden Animal Shelter on Range Road in Linden. Volunteers from the club made dog biscuits and then went to the shelter to visit and spend some time with the animals. They were able to […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — Sharon Greenblatt, a kindergarten teacher at A.P. Morris Early Childhood Center in Hillside, has been awarded a classroom grant by the Association of American Educators Foundation to purchase supplies for her gardening program. “While many areas of the world and members within our own community struggle to put food on their tables […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — For over twenty years, the Paper Mill Playhouse has been honoring excellence in high school theater throughout the state of New Jersey. The Union High School Performing Arts Company has remained at the top of the list as one of the best musical theater training programs for high school students in […]
LINDEN — Tiffany Alicia Concepcion, the woman suspected of causing an arson earlier today at an apartment building in Linden, has been charged with the following: aggravated arson (3 counts), aggravated assault (domestic violence), unlawful possession of a knife (domestic violence) and possession of a knife for unlawful purpose (domestic violence). The domestic violence charges stem […]
SUMMIT — Summit’s Annual Memorial Day Parade and Commemoration Ceremony will honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for this great nation on Monday, May 25. All are welcome to march in or observe the parade as well as attend the Commemoration Ceremony on Summit’s Village Green. The 2015 parade will begin […]
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 […]