By Rebecca Panico, Correspondent UNION COUNTY, NJ — Standing behind businesses along Broad Street in Elizabeth stands the Union County Jail, where those who are awaiting trial are held. It’s a not-so-welcoming place to be. But for recently appointed Director of the Union County Department of Corrections Ronald Charles, jail is where he’s always worked. Charles […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — At her first scheduled court appearance on Monday, Dec. 14, Kayla-Simone McKelvey, the 24-year-old woman police believe was behind Twitter death threats aimed at black Kean University students, plead not guilty to third-degree creating a false public alarm. In the brief proceeding at the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth, McKelvey, a personal […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Sixteen Union County agencies are among the 176 New Jersey police departments which have been awarded body-worn cameras, to be paid for by the state, announced Acting State Attorney General John Hoffman on Monday, Dec. 21. More than 750 body-worn cameras, worth a combined $376,500, will be put to use across the […]
County employees to receive 2-percent raise
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Christmas is coming early this year for the Board of Chosen Freeholders. For the first time since December 2006, the Union County freeholders will be giving themselves a raise this week. During the final freeholder meeting of 2015 on Thursday, Dec. 17, the Board of Chosen Freeholders is expected to approve what’s […]
FANWOOD, NJ — October 1, 2015, Roseburg, Oregon: 10 lives lost. July 16, 2015, Chattanooga, Tennessee: Five lives lost. May 23, 2014, Isla Vista California, University of California, Santa Barbara: Six lives lost. Faith leaders, councilpersons, mayors, activists, a Union County freeholder and state legislators — including Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) — united to remember the […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — On a highly visible stretch of Morris Avenue alongside Kean University’s main entrance, state lawmakers, civil rights activists, faculty members and a smattering of students marched with the coalition of black ministers calling for Kean President Dawood Farahi’s resignation, chanting slogans like “no more fear” and “Farahi must go” as thousands of […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — When they first started rescuing dogs from kill shelters in the deep south, the founders of the Berkeley Heights-based Home For Good Dog Rescue — modestly working out of a nearby Summit home — gave themselves a rule. They would transport just 10 dogs a month from South Carolina and Georgia — […]
American Association of University Professors claims reorganization is ‘demeaning’
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Citing changes in school policy put in place since 2009, a report published by the American Association of University Professors alleges that Union County College has bulldozed faculty rights by taking advantage of a state labor law, resulting in “demeaning” treatment of faculty and an inferior educational product. The report, released in […]
Former student, rally participant charged; ministers still calling for president’s resignation
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A two-week long investigation for the user of infamous Twitter account @keanuagainstblk, which published death threats against black students and sent the school community into chaos on Tuesday, Nov. 17, has led the Union County Prosecutor’s Office to a black activist that had participated in on-campus peace rallies for raising racial awareness. […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Department of Parks and Recreation are pleased to present the 32nd Annual Holiday Nature Craft Show at Trailside Nature and Science Center in Mountainside. Usher in the holidays with the sights and sounds of the season on Sunday, Dec. 6, from 11 […]