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Inside the ‘astonishing’ salaries at N.J. school empire. Taxpayers foot the huge bill.
Last April, College Achieve Public Schools, known as CAPS, marked its 10-year anniversary with a ritzy celebration at The Chateau Grande in East Brunswick. The gathering at the ornate French-American style banquet center, set among 15 pastoral acres, was to toast a burgeoning charter school network that over a decade had swelled to nine schools and nearly 3,200 students across Plainfield, Paterson, Asbury Park and Neptune.
Secret Staten Island mob ‘Commission’ meeting in 1984 helped bring down Mafia titans, including godfather Paul Castellano
For the FBI, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Mob-busting Special Agent Joseph F. O’Brien got a call from an informant late in the morning on May 15, 1984 with huge news: members of “The Commission,” the ruling body of the Mafia in New York City, were set to meet on Staten Island.
Will Marlboro school board launch investigation after student faced 'offensive touching?'
MARLBORO — The Marlboro Township Board of Education is debating whether to launch an internal investigation and file a malpractice claim against the board's former attorney in the wake of allegations that a teacher touched a child at Memorial Middle School. On Tuesday night, the school board met and debated whether administration and board members responded appropriately to the allegations. They also discussed the impacts of a related letter sent to the child's parents by then-board attorney...
This huge YouTuber will deliver the commencement speech at his N.J. alma mater
A celebrated YouTuber with nearly 19 million subscribers will be giving a commencement speech this month at Stevens Institute of Technology, school officials announced Thursday. Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, graduated in 2015 from Stevens’ business school. Brownlee launched the YouTube channel @mkbhd — which stands for Marques...
Sayreville reverses course, OKs tax abatement plan for massive warehouse
SAYREVILLE – The borough could realize nearly $100 million over 30 years under the terms of a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) agreement with the developer of a $220 million warehouse project on Callahan Boulevard in the Hercules Redevelopment Area. In an often-tumultuous meeting, the Borough Council voted...
N.J.’s best meals under $10: Portuguese gem serves sandwiches, perfect pastel de nata
Walking into Pinho’s, a longstanding bakery and deli specializing in Portuguese custard cups (pastel de nata), I was instead struck by the smell of almond — golden almond cookies, yum! — and the essence of nostalgia from a mainstay that has served its Roselle neighborhood for 33 years.
One dead, four injured in Old Bridge explosion, fire
OLD BRIDGE – The Old Bridge Township Police Department is investigating a structure fire at 178 West Greystone Road, which left a 73-year-old South River woman dead and four others injured. Eileen Marco, an employee, was pronounced dead at the scene, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Old Bridge Police Chief Thomas J. Montagna said in a statement. ...
Police: 7 people, including a baby and 3-year-old, injured in NJ Transit bus crash expected to be OK
Woodbridge Police Department Traffic Unit said an NJ Transit bus was driving east on Port Reading Avenue when it rear-ended an Acura that then rear-ended a transit van.
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