HILLSIDE, NJ — Hillside voters will go back to the polls for a Dec. 5 runoff election to decide who will be the town’s next mayor and pick three at-large council members. Jorge Batista and Dahlia Vertreese garnered the most votes in the four-way mayoral race on Nov. 7, and will appear on the ballot next […]
UNION, NJ — A new study has ranked Union as the 41st safest municipality in the United States and the 11th in New Jersey. SafeHome, which reviews security companies, used 2015 data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports for the study that ranked municipalities with more than 50,000 residents. SafeHome examined violent crime and property offenses, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A train dispatcher yelled out to Rich Laube that he could depart from the Pullman terminal. “East track or west?” Laube asked as he held a remote to direct his train. “East, please,” the dispatcher yelled back. The two weren’t directing actual trains. They were operating model trains along a scale rail […]
UNION, NJ — Union Board of Education President Ronnie McDowell said he wants an official review of the mail-in ballots after he came up 29 votes short in his bid for re-election, losing to Sharon Higgins. “I will be asking for a recount/recheck of the absentee ballots because I have my suspicions that those voters may […]
ROSELLE, NJ — An Oct. 30 meeting advertised as a special joint gathering of the Roselle Borough Council and Board of Education about a new school and community center project dissolved into a brief vote on one unrelated item. The council withdrew from the meeting five days before it was supposed to take place, Mayor Christine […]
LINDEN, NJ — A Linden police officer who helped capture bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahimi last year and is now reportedly facing a DWI charge has retired from the force, officials said. The retirement of Angel Padilla, who worked on the force for 17 years was announced Nov. 1 on the Linden Police Department’s Facebook page […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth is seeking designation as a Level II trauma center, which the hospital has said is important in an area that has previously been the target of terrorist activity. A Level II trauma center offers 24-hour care by general surgeons and provides orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — A member of the Elizabeth Police Department who was promoted to lieutenant will continue with his lawsuit against the city and his superiors that claims he was passed up for the position last year. Lt. Todd Kelly was promoted from sergeant on Thursday, Oct. 26. He filed his lawsuit last year, suing Mayor […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Those who remember the old Warinanco Park Skating Facility are in for a surprise if they haven’t seen it for a while. The finishing touches of a $7 million renovation have been completed at the 56-year-old facility, county spokesman Sebastian D’Elia said. The facility has been doubled in size and features a […]
RAHWAY, NJ — Rahway is trying to lessen the reality — if not the image — of the struggling artist by giving preference to artists in a federally-subsidized apartment complex the city hopes to fill with 58 tenants by the end of January. The Willows at Rahway is located on the site of the former Elizabethtown […]