Clark to honor achievements of student musicians

CLARK — The Clark Board of Education will be honoring the impressive accomplishments and achievements of student musicians in the District at the upcoming Board Meeting’s Showcase of Success this coming Tuesday 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Arthur L. Johnson High School. The Frank K. Hehnly School Select Choir will be recognized for performing on New 12 New Jersey’s […]

Wharton Music Center kicks-off Library Concert Series with The Cockeyed Optimist: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein

NEW PROVIDENCE — Wharton Music Center kicks off its Library Concert Series on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. at New Providence Memorial Library located at 377 Elkwood Ave. in New Providence. Jamie Baer Peterson, soprano, and Lois Buesser, piano, present Cockeyed Optimist: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein. The concert is free and open to […]

Armed robbery investigation leads to arrest of Clark resident

CRANFORD — Yesterday, Cranford Police detectives arrested William Black, 24 of Clark, and charged him with robbery and weapons possession in connection with an incident that occurred the previous evening. On Jan. 14, at approximately 8:07 p.m., Cranford Police responded to a report of an armed robbery at H & B Shell, 1170 Raritan Road. According to a gas […]

Registration now open for families to “Build” Summit in LEGOS

SUMMIT — A huge map of downtown Summit, 30×20 feet, that features all of the streets and dozens of significant buildings will have teams of children and their parents building each of these treasured buildings using more than 50,000 LEGO blocks. On Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1 to 3 p.m., the ninth annual LEGO Build benefitting the […]

Union County week of January 16th

OBITUARIES: • ALTERMAN — Carol, formerly of Hillside; Jan. 4. Hillside Hadassah member. • APOSTOL — Lotte K., of Roselle Park; Jan. 5. Great-grandmother of five. • BELLUSCIO — Mary R., nee Penevolpe, of Roselle; Dec. 29. She was 93. • BENCIVENGA — June Ann, nee Hamilton, of Summit; Jan. 4. Wife, mother. • BLINDT […]

New Jersey American Water announces temporary water treatment

UNION COUNTY — As part its annual pipeline maintenance program, New Jersey American Water will temporarily change the water treatment process at its Raritan-Millstone Water Treatment Plant in Bridgewater and at its Canal Road Water Treatment Plant in Somerset from a chloramine –a combination of ammonia and chlorine — to free chlorine. The change will […]

Freeholder Estrada named second vice chairman of NJTPA

NEWARK – Union County Freeholder Angel Estrada was elected Second Vice Chairman of North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority at today’s Board of Trustees meeting. NJTPA oversees regional transportation planning and annually authorizes more than $1 billion in federal surface transportation funding for 13 counties in northern and central New Jersey. “A well-functioning transportation network is essential to our […]

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 […]