Library offers professional help for residents to digitize personal collections as fundraiser

LINDEN — Linden Free Public Library invites you to visit on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. t0 2 p.m. and drop off your personal collections of photos, slides, 8mm or 16 mm film, or VHS tapes which Digital Memory Media will then professionally convert to DVDs, which will protect your treasured memories from aging, humidity, and acidification. […]

Legal oversight stops Cranford in its tracks

Township keeps same contract with Westfield after learning layoff of employees was illegal

CRANFORD — It appears the township failed to do their homework completely before informing the two remaining Health Department employees they would be losing their jobs at the end of 2013. When former township administrator Joe Hartnett told full-time health inspector Monica Koscova Jencik and part-time deputy registrar of vital statistics Joan Holler in November […]

Arts Guild New Jersey awarded new grant for art education programs

RAHWAY — Arts Guild New Jersey has announced the award of a $5000 grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities for the New York Tri-State Area. This grant, half from the tri-state branch of the organization and half from RMHC Global, was awarded for expenses pertaining to the 2014 Arts Guild New Jersey Art Education programs […]

Celebrity Bartender event to raise funds for St. Pat’s parade

UNION COUNTY — The Union County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee will host its annual Celebrity Bartenders fundraiser on Sunday, Jan. 19, from 1:30 to 7 p.m. at the Kenilworth Veterans Center located at 33 South 21st St., Kenilworth. The party will be in honor of Gene Gillespie of The Blackthorn Irish Pub and Restaurant, […]

Deer management program continues through Feb. 5

UNION COUNTY — The Union County Department of Parks and Community Renewal has released details of its annual Deer Management Program, which began on Monday morning, Jan. 6, in five Union County parks and one municipal park. Browsing for food by large numbers of deer has caused a loss of forest understory in park areas […]

Summit Library to present seminar on Medicare

SUMMIT — Medicare can be a bewildering topic. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, from 7 to 9 p.m., Summit Public Library will host “The A,B, C,D’s of Medicare: Basics for Boomers.” This free seminar, explained in easy-to-understand terms, is vital for those who are approaching Medicare eligibility within the next 5 to 10 years, or are a […]

Officers make arrest in New York parole cold case

ELIZABETH — Union County Sheriff’s Officers arrested John Lopez of Elizabeth on a cold case parole warrant in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Lopez, 33, was wanted by New York State Division of Parole for parole violation and had been a fugitive since 2008. The Cold Case Division of the New York State Parole Board […]

Union County for the week of January 9th

OBITUARIES: • AMMANN — Richard, of Kenilworth; Dec. 29. Ullrich Copper retiree, father. • BARNES — Ralph Frederick, of Hillside; Dec. 25. Exxon retiree, father of two. • BAUER — Fritz Karl Heinrich, of Scotch Plains; Dec. 30. Held two Ph.Ds. • BENSON — Mary Kane, of Berkeley Heights; Dec. 16. She was 93 years […]

America needs the Fair Tax, not more fiddling with the tax code

By Robert C. McNair Some 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” Today, America’s financial well-being is threatened by its continued reliance on an antiquated regimen of tax laws and regulations to […]

Wanted Union man nabbed after jump from fire escape

UNION — Union County Sheriff’s officers and Union Police officers acting on an outstanding warrant, arrested Randy Lydon, 24, of Union, who attempted to flee his Walker Avenue apartment by jumping off the fire escape of the building and into a bush of thorns, where officers apprehended him while he tried to scale a backyard […]