RAHWAY, NJ — “This is just a really tough time we’re going through right now,” Rahway High School head football coach Brian Russo said in a phone interview with Union County LocalSource on Monday, Sept. 12. It had been just four days since it had been reported that Rahway senior football player Ali Muhammad, 17, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County Board of County Commissioners invites residents to attend the free annual Union County Hispanic-heritage flag-raising ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 5 p.m., on the steps of the Union County Courthouse, 2 Broad St., Elizabeth. “We are proud to once again raise the Hispanic-heritage flag at the county […]
RAHWAY, NJ — Celebrating her 100th birthday among family, friends and staff members at the Adroit Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1777 Lawrence St., a member facility of the Excelsior Care Group, Zulmira Goncaleves Lopes received a proclamation from the city of Rahway’s mayor, Raymond Giacobbe, on behalf of the city council and the citizens […]
TRENTON, NJ — Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced Aug. 24 the filing of seven new environmental enforcement actions across the state. Six of the environmental justice lawsuits center on a broad array of chemical pollutants that have tainted separate, unrelated sites in Newark, Linden, […]
RAHWAY, NJ — On Feb. 28, 2020, Rahway resident Jane Martin was attacked by a neighbor’s dog. The dog, a large rottweiler, escaped his owner’s yard when a part of the fence separating the two properties collapsed. Martin was on her front porch. The dog bit and held her arm, dragging her down the steps […]
RAHWAY, NJ — A Union County jury has returned a guilty verdict against a man who slashed the throat of a Rahway man last year, Union County First Assistant Prosecutor James O. Tansey announced on Thursday, Aug. 4. Michael G. Johnston, 45, of Winfield Park, was found guilty on one count each of second-degree aggravated […]
RAHWAY, NJ — The Gateway Family YMCA has announced upcoming tryout dates for the 2022-2023 fall/winter Rapids Swim Team. Tryouts are scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 11; Tuesday, Aug. 16; and Thursday, Aug. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Gateway Family YMCA Rahway branch, 1564 […]
RAHWAY, NJ — Franklin Elementary School in Rahway recently debuted a child-designed, state-of-the-art playground. The months-long collaboration between Franklin Elementary, Popsicle and Kaboom! culminated during the last week of the school year, as more than 120 volunteers installed the new play space, which will offer more than 600 children a high-quality, safe place to play […]
RAHWAY, NJ — Tyler Rios, 28, of East Orange, who previously admitted to killing his estranged girlfriend, was sentenced to 30 years in state prison on Friday, June 10, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel announced June 14. Union County Superior Court Judge John Deitch imposed the term, handing down a 25-year sentence on his […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — On April 4, an East Orange man, charged with the death of his estranged girlfriend and the kidnapping of their son in an incident that resulted in a widely broadcast Amber Alert last July, pleaded guilty and is facing a 30-year prison sentence, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel announced April […]