HILLSIDE, NJ — The fight to determine who will be Hillside’s police chief has intensified with new allegations of retaliation emerging from within the force in the form of a whistleblower lawsuit. Capt. Nicola Lomonte filed the lawsuit July 27 in Superior Court, documenting his contentious working relationship with Hillside Mayor Angela Garretson, a current Democratic […]
UNION, NJ — Union’s tax assessor plans to evaluate whether a new incarnation of a fine-dining restaurant on Kean University’s campus will continue to pay property taxes to the township. According to the Ursino Steakhouse & Tavern website, the restaurant is slated to open before the end of this year. Gourmet Dining, the parent company of […]
LINDEN, NJ — For Jean Perez, a Linden resident for 11 years, visiting her police department’s “Coffee with a Cop” event was about interacting with officers in person rather than through social media. “I wanted to put a face to the police officers,” Perez said outside the Starbucks in Aviation Plaza on Oct. 4. “I don’t […]
UNION, NJ — Union will soon repave the rough road left from a renovation project along a stretch of Stuyvesant Avenue, according to Union spokeswoman Natalie Pineiro. The first phase of the Stuyvesant Avenue Streetscape Project is nearing completion, with repaving of Stuyvesant Avenue between Vauxhall and Morris avenues slated for around mid-October, Pineiro said. The […]
ROSELLE PARK, NJ — Children in a packed auditorium were asked what to do if a “Do not cross” signal were to begin flashing while they were crossing the street — and not one knew the correct response. One student selected from the audience at Roselle Park Middle School thought it would be OK to turn […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A regional accrediting agency that threatened Kean University’s status five years ago has given the school three recommendations in response to the college’s internal “periodic review report.” “The Middle States Commission on Higher Education response to the report was overwhelmingly positive,” university spokeswoman Margaret McCorry said in a recent statement. “The […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Although Janice Tellier worked as a Christian Dior designer in the 1970s, she never thought she’d be modeling at the age of 67. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to model,” the Mountainside resident said while waiting to dress for third annual Generations in Style Fashion Show […]
ROSELLE PARK, NJ — Calling it the “biggest event” to occur in Roselle Park in 50 years, Mayor Carl Hokanson helped other officials and developers to officially break ground on two residential-retail apartment buildings at a twilight ceremony on Westfield Avenue on Thursday, Sept. 28. “The merchants are biting at the bit because, as you know, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Several municipalities throughout the state, including Union and Linden, have been approving resolutions to oppose a pair of bills sponsored by state Sen. Loretta Weinberg of Bergen County, which seek to expand public meetings and records laws. The bills would expand both the Open Public Records Act and Open Public Meetings Act, […]
UNION, NJ — Words matter and apparently so do names, when it comes to school board brands, slogans and elections. A Union Board of Education faction is crying foul after learning of a web address that’s strikingly similar to its own. Moreover, the similar web address redirects visitors to the opposition’s Facebook page. Parents for Change, […]