CRANFORD, NJ — The Township Committee unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance that would allocate a portion of the annual service charge received from Birchwood Developers Urban Renewal Associates LLC to the Cranford Public School District. The buildings on Birchwood Avenue, which will have 225 apartments, are currently under construction; the town anticipates that […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — An oral surgeon operating in Union County had his license revoked and was ordered to pay $517,000 in restitution and penalties for what the state Board of Dentistry called “hit and run dentistry,” the state Attorney General’s Office announced in a Nov. 26 release. Dr. Andrew Maron, 58, who owned a […]
UNION, NJ — Kean University’s reach will expand beyond the school’s Union County campus as history professors Sue Kozel and Frank Argote-Freyre were recently selected as New Jersey Public Scholars by the New Jersey Council on the Humanities. Kozel, an adjunct history professor, and Argote-Freyre, an associate professor of Latin American history, were among 20 […]
ROSELLE, NJ — Little Free Libraries have been around for a decade, and now the borough has one of its own, with plans to add more. Roselle resident Juli-Anne Benjamin, director of curriculum at the Great Oaks Legacy Charter School in Newark, has brought the program to Roselle. The Little Free Library is an international […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The Board of Education has accepted a $5,000 donation from the Walnut Avenue Parent Teacher Association, which will be used for the purchase of iPads for students in kindergarten through second grade. Board of Education Administrator Robert Carfagno received the check Tuesday, Nov. 19. The donation will ideally provide an iPad for […]
UNION, N.J. — Professors, lecturers, professional staff and librarians at Kean University joined instructors from eight other New Jersey public colleges in a statewide demonstration protesting for a new contract Wednesday, Nov. 20. Kean instructors picketed as part of the state College Council along Morris Avenue at the intersection of Green Lane across from the […]
CRANFORD, N.J. — The Cranford Theater is back in business after a two-month renovation. The theater reopened Nov. 8 with a new lobby, seating, curtains and projectors just in time for the holiday season. “We opened with a lot of positives,” theater owner Doreen Sayegh said in a recent interview with LocalSource. “And it makes […]
UNION, N.J. — The school district is facing a $270,000 deficit for unpaid lunches from last year, Board of Education members were told at their Nov. 19 meeting, and one official suggested hiring a collection agency to recover the funds. “We’re shocked to hear $270,000. Is that correct?” board member Vito Nufrio said. “That number […]
Maplewood author Lisa Sturm’s debut novel, “Echoed in My Bones,” will echo through your mind long after you finish reading it. Drawing from her years of experience as a psychotherapist in Irvington, Elizabeth and Plainfield, and now with a practice in Springfield, Sturm deftly captures the lives and emotions of her three main characters. “Echoed […]
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 […]