LINDEN, NJ — The battle to fill the 8th Ward seat will return to the courts after a divided City Council rejected a settlement offer at a special meeting on May 2. Mayor Derek Armstead-aligned council members Lisa Ormon, Barry Javick, Peter Brown, Alfred Mohammad, Ralph Strano and Michele Yamakaitis voted against the offer, while […]
GARWOOD, NJ — Seventy-year-old Edna McClure lost her job of almost 30 years in 2015, and since then has been considering relocating to a more affordable state, specifically Delaware. “I’d have to leave my family and church, which would be very difficult,” she said in a recent interview with LocalSource. “Delaware is not that far […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — Elizabeth Police Director James Cosgrove has resigned his post after more than 20 years following a Union County Prosecutor’s Office investigation that determined he used racial slurs and vulgar slang to refer to black and women members of his staff. The announcement, posted on Mayor Chris Bollwage’s social media accounts on April […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The Common Council unanimously approved a nearly $52 million municipal budget at its April 23 regular meeting, allocating initial money for the construction of a new $11.8 million firehouse on Broad Street. The budget, which was first unveiled at the March 19 council meeting, includes a municipal tax increase of 1 percent […]
UNION, NJ — Anthony Steitz was not your typical 17-year-old young man. Through his volunteer work, he collected money for Puerto Rico after the recent hurricanes, helped compile backpacks full of supplies for hurricane victims in Texas and Florida, and he even collected suits for disabled veterans. Steitz had a drive to help people that […]
SPRINGFIELD, NJ — Plans to renovate the former Saks Fifth Avenue site on Millburn Avenue are moving forward as the Township Committee voted unanimously at its April 23 meeting to introduce an ordinance to redevelop the property. The 9.7-acre site located at 90 Millburn Ave. that has been vacant for more than 20 years since […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The local school district will survey residents in the next few weeks to gather input as it continues to consider its “reimagining” — with some proposals including the addition of free full-day kindergarten and a comprehensive middle school. The reconfiguration proposal has been discussed in school board and town hall-style meetings since […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has replaced Acting Union County Prosecutor Michael Monahan with his top aide and called on Elizabeth Police Director James Cosgrove to resign in the wake of an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office that confirmed Cosgrove used derogatory terms to refer to staff. First Assistant Attorney General Jennifer […]
CLARK, NJ — A Canadian drifter who gained internet fame as “Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” has been convicted of killing a prominent Clark attorney in his home a little less than six years ago, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced in an April 24 release. Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, 30, was convicted of first-degree murder in […]