LINDEN, NJ — Nursing home workers with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East picketed AristaCare at Delaire on Wednesday, Aug. 24, protesting proposed cuts to their health insurance and management’s alleged refusal to recognize a fair contract. The picket included several veterans of a 2017 strike at AristaCare at Delaire. Darlene Brown, who has worked for […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Many kids from underserved households are not getting involved in athletics because of the high price of sports equipment. Leveling the Playing Field is a nonprofit that collects and redistributes equipment to expand access and equity within youth sports and recreation programs in under-resourced communities. LPF expanded to a third warehouse location […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The Summit Department of Community Programs will host its annual Doggy Dip event on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Summit Family Aquatic Center, 100 Ashwood Ave. The event is open to Summit residents and nonresidents. There is a fee to attend. Dogs weighing less than 20 pounds can swim from 10 to […]
UNION, NJ — Kean University will commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 with the New Jersey premiere of “Are We Safer Today?” — a documentary that tells the story of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission. The commission investigated the deadly terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. […]
SUMMIT, NJ — Mary Early-Zald will be ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 4 p.m., in a ceremony at Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The ordination will be celebrated by the Beacon Unitarian Universalist congregation and the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville. The public is welcome to attend in person, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — It was a weekend when prominent Union County football schools Union, Summit, Cranford, Linden, Westfield and New Providence were all playing. In fact, last weekend was opening weekend for all of the above except for New Providence High School. Union and Linden high schools both lost by 1 point, Summit High […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union County residents can safely dispose of unwanted household chemicals, old fire extinguishers, propane tanks and other potentially hazardous items at Union County’s next free Household Hazardous Waste event on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Union College, formerly known as Union County College, 1033 Springfield Ave., […]
ROSELLE, NJ — Roselle Mayor Donald Shaw was awoken in the early-morning hours of Wednesday, Aug. 31, by the yells of “Fire, fire!” and “Help, help!” from a woman walking her dog who was alerting the slumbering neighborhood. Rushing out of his condominium at 5:03 a.m. in pajamas, he saw smoke rising from the building […]
UNION, NJ — Premiere Stages at Kean University will present the New Jersey premiere of Gino Diiorio’s “Scab” from Thursday, Sept. 8, through Sunday, Sept. 25, in the university’s Bauer Boucher Theatre Center, Vaughn-Eames Hall, 1000 Morris Ave., Union. Selected as a finalist from the 2020-21 Premiere Play Festival, “Scab” will feature actors John Anthony […]
LINDEN, NJ — Najir Paige, 27, of East Orange, is under arrest following a three-week investigation into a shooting that occurred at a Linden bar in early August, according to an Aug. 29 press release from the Linden Police Department. Just after 2 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, Linden police responded to Menga Lounge on […]