UNION — Residents in Union stared in amazement on Monday, as a pickup truck crashed into a telephone pole on Stuyvesant Avenue, causing live power wires to dangle into the road and sparks to fly. The street was closed for the better part of the day and residents and businesses experienced brief power outages as PSE&G […]
UNION COUNTY — Union County’s annual public heritage event, “Four Centuries in a Weekend: A Journey through Union County’s History,” will take place Saturday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 20, from noon to 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, with the cooperation of staff […]
SCOTCH PLAINS — The Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA has announced Kathryn “Kacie” Bumiller was honored as Youth Volunteer of the Year at the 2013 New Jersey YMCA State Alliance Dinner for Volunteer Recognition on Thursday, Oct. 3 at Forsgate Country Club in Jamesburg for her volunteer dedication at the Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA located in Scotch Plains. […]
UNION COUNTY — With approximately 600 children in the Union County foster care system that need help in finding permanency, a new gala aims to foster their dream. CASA of Union County has announced its first “Foster the Dream” Gala paying tribute to the Hon. Judge Jo-Anne Spatola on Friday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. […]
UNION — The Union Township Chamber of Commerce will be holding a “Business Card Exchange over Breakfast” event as its October networking event. The program will be held Oct. 23, at Northfield Bank, 1305 Morris Ave., Union from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. “The October Networking event provides every member business and guests with the […]
CLARK — The students in Meghan Bowers’ fourth grade music class at Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark are combining language arts knowledge with music. In the first weeks of school, fourth grade music students review and learn rhythms. Rhythms are musical syllables used in the pronunciation of words related to melodies. Students then reviewed the […]
LINDEN — Linden High School Marching Band recently won first place at a South Brunswick competition taking awards in best overall effect and best music. Congratulations to the band.
SUMMIT – Atlantic Health System and Montclair State University have announced a partnership to promote healing arts in health care and education through research. Through the robust services of Atlantic Health System, one of the largest non-profit health care systems in New Jersey and the academic capabilities of Montclair State University, the partnership will offer […]
BASKING RIDGE — Forty Pingry seniors are recognized for exceptional academic promise as Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. They placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2014 competition by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Pingry has now had […]
SUMMIT — Kent Place School seniors Emily Jeffries, Annie Sher, Meredith Tulloch, Mia Wright, Margaret Bonnet, Sophie DeBode, Melina Santoro, Katherine Hammond, Amanda Moskowitz and Olivia Mastrangelo of Summit have been honored by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on Advanced Placement Examinations taken last spring. DeBode, Hammond, Jeffries, Mastrangelo, Moskowitz, Santoro, […]