CRANFORD, N.J. — A food truck and delivery business will be moving into the township after the local Planning Board gave its approval to Food Truck Inc. to repurpose an existing warehouse at 41 and 42 Jackson Drive on the corner of Moen Avenue on the Roselle border. According to Food Truck chief operating officer […]
UNION, N.J. — It’s late on a Wednesday afternoon, and already a handful of members are milling about at the A. Paul Mallery Model Railroad Center behind The Home Depot. One is painting scenery, another is cleaning track and another is working on a building for an ever-growing HO-scale, or 1:87, layout. Of the 120 […]
ROSELLE, N.J. — On a cold day a few years ago, Cynthia Johnson saw something disheartening. “I went throughout neighboring towns and I saw that there was a need,” she said. “I saw people walking around with blankets around them.” Johnson, a first-term councilwoman for Ward 3, said she has seen the trend of homelessness […]
KENILWORTH, N.J. — Bobby Liberatos doesn’t have an editor in quite the same tradition as Perry White and Jonah Jameson, of comic book fame, or even Lou Grant, of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” but the David Brearley Middle School eighth-grader is learning journalism. Chosen as one of 50 students from hundreds of applicants worldwide […]
CRANFORD, N.J. — The Township Committee has approved a deal to settle the municipality’s court-mandated Mount Laurel housing requirements, agreeing to zone property for residential use during the next half decade that would include 440 reduced-rate apartments. According to township attorney Ryan Cooper at the committee’s Nov. 12 meeting, the agreement with the Fair Share […]
SUMMIT, N.J. — As a harpist, Cecelia Chartoff needs her hands to be in good working order, but it’s not always easy for the performer, who has rheumatoid arthritis. The chronic autoimmune disorder affects the joints and can also attack other body systems. However, Chartoff rarely misses a performance and she credits her reliability to […]
Kean University has received accreditation for a new graduate program in genetic counseling, paving the way for students to begin coursework next autumn, the school announced in an Oct. 25 press release. The master of science degree in genetic counseling will be offered through the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics at Kean […]
CRANFORD, N.J. — Since Kurt Steiner moved to Cranford in 1953 he has led a quiet life, especially compared with his younger years, when he fled the Nazis in Austria before World War II. “We went through Switzerland by train. This way, we got out of the Nazi border,” the 107-year-old Steiner said in a […]
WESTFIELD, N.J. — Attorneys can be the focus of people’s emotions, especially during family litigation. This is a fact well known to James McGlew II. He has been practicing law for 34 years, 23 of those years with Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper P.C. in Westfield. “I try to represent people in a caring way,” […]
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — The Township Committee agreed at its Nov. 6 meeting to authorize $1 million in bonds, more than half of it for a new fire engine to replace a 19-year-old model that is nearing the end of its recommended lifespan. “We’re at a point with the equipment where this has to take place.” […]