* – Indicates election winners All information according to the Union County clerk’s office BERKELEY HEIGHTS, VOTE FOR TWO Robert Cianciulli – 867 (27.51%) *Christine Reilly – 1,376 (43.65%) *Doug Reinstein – 899 (28.52%) Write-in – 54 (.18%) CLARK, VOTE FOR THREE *Scott Bohm – 991 (25.12%) *Robert Smorol, Jr. – 983 (24.92%) […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — Nine candidates for the Hillside Town Council debated about ways to improve the state of the township at a public, hours-long forum held at Hillside Town Hall on Thursday, Oct. 24, with each individual making a case to residents for why they should be elected into one of the four open seats. […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — The library in Hillside, after being closed for 22-months through this past May, has been focused on making its presence known this summer, and it’s been doing so with a new director in charge. Hillside Public Library Director Kassundra Miller said there has been widespread interest in the return of the library […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — On Aug. 28 in Hillside, a ceremony was held in honor of Kathleen DiChiara, the founder of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. This event was held to celebrate DiChiara’s retirement as president and CEO of the Community FoodBank, which she has led for more than 30 years. Hillside’s Department of Public […]
NEWARK — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced that the Honorable Ronald D. Wigler, the Criminal Presiding Judge in Essex County, sentenced Richard Whatley, 21, of Hillside to 18 years in New Jersey State Prison for fatally shooting Teshon Clegg, a 32-year-old father of three. Clegg was fatally shot on May 27, 2013 at a Memorial […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — Sharon Greenblatt, a kindergarten teacher at A.P. Morris Early Childhood Center in Hillside, has been awarded a classroom grant by the Association of American Educators Foundation to purchase supplies for her gardening program. “While many areas of the world and members within our own community struggle to put food on their tables […]
NEWARK — A Union County, tax preparer with an office in Essex County, was arrested Monday on charges of aiding and abetting in the filing of two dozen false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Darlene Covington, 31, of Hillside, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 10, and charged with 24 counts of aiding and […]
NEWARK — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray has announced that an Essex County jury has convicted Richard Whatley, 21, of Hillside of passion provocation manslaughter for fatally shooting Teshon Clegg, 32, of Newark during a family barbecue on Memorial Day in 2013. Assistant Prosecutor Jamel Semper, who tried the case, said on May 27, 2013, Whatley and […]
NEWARK —An Essex County man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for a carjacking that occurred in December 2012 in Union County, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced. Larry Brown, 24, of Newark, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William Martini to an information charging him with one count of theft of a motor vehicle by force, […]
Closed since August of 2013 due to flooding, township is ready to show off renovations
HILLSIDE, NJ — Hillside Public Library celebrates the open house of the renovated library on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. The library, which closed its doors on Aug. 28, 2013, after withstanding decades of problems, is now structurally ready to re-open. The closure was the result of major flash flood water damage to the […]