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UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union County Freeholder Chairman Bruce H. Bergen has announced a comprehensive series of initiatives for 2016, entitled “One County, One Community” that includes new announcements for economic development, transportation, public safety, seniors, veterans, education, parks and environmental programs. Bergen, a lifelong native of Union County and a resident of Springfield, was […]
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UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County Department of Parks and Recreation has released details of its annual Deer Management Program, which began Monday, Jan. 4, in six county parks and one municipal park. The program will operate in the Watchung Reservation, the Summit portion of Passaic River Park, Ash Brook Reservation, Lenape Park, Nomahegan […]
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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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on COUNTY NEWS
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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on COUNTY NEWS
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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on COUNTY NEWS
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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on COUNTY NEWS, FANWOOD
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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on COUNTY NEWS
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 […]
By Peter Fiorilla on BERKELEY HEIGHTS, COUNTY NEWS
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 — […]
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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 […]