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Pedestrian Safety Campaign Launches in Union County
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The county launched its Street Smart NJ pedestrian safety campaign this month at a site where a pedestrian was seriously injured in 2023. The current campaign, consisting of large educational signs and distribution of safety information throughout the municipality, in schools and through community partners, is aimed at changing unsafe behavior and reducing pedestrian-vehicle crashes at the intersections of West Second Avenue and Chestnut Street and West Second Avenue and Locust Street in Roselle.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Street Smart NJ is a statewide collaborative effort between public, private and...
Westfield High School Moves Up in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Rankings
WESTFIELD, NJ — A new ranking of public high schools by U.S. News & World Report puts Westfield High School at #40 in the state, and #863 nationwide, up from #49 in the state and #1,085 nationwide last year. The publication also ranked WHS as #75 in the country’s top science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) schools.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER State-wide, three Union County Vocational-Technical schools made the top 10: Union County Magnet High School was ranked #8, Academy for Information Technology ranked #9 and Academy for Allied Health Sciences Ranked # 10. Union...
Bayonne developer alleges contractor stole land & forged signature, cost him $6.1M
In a counterclaim, a Bayonne developer is alleging a local contractor essentially stole property from him after forging his signature on what he alleges is a “fictitious” agreement, costing him at least $6.1 million in damages. The 16-page, three-count counterclaim was filed by the Gamal Group Corporation in...
Large apartment fire in this N.J. city displaces 39 residents
A three-alarm fire that burned into the late evening Monday damaged several buildings with upstairs apartments, leaving over three dozen people in need of shelter, city officials said Tuesday. The fire began at a three-story, multi-use building with apartments in the 500 block of Broadway, officials said. The building has...
Immigrant found dead behind NYC pizzeria was ‘hissy-pissy drunk,’ local who wheeled him there on office chair says
A Staten Island man found dead behind a local pizzeria was “hissy pissy drunk” on the ground just hours earlier — according to a neighbor who cops say helped wheel him there in an office chair. John Young told The Post the victim, identified by sources and neighbors as Julio Morocho, 34, was sprawled out on his driveway early Sunday — and asked repeatedly to be taken to the pizza joint. “My daughter is a nurse and she called me and she said there was a man passed out in the driveway,” said Young, 61. “So I told my daughter, ‘Go over...
N.J. empanada restaurant squeezed out by gentrification. ‘We were basically kicked out.’ | Calavia-Robertson
I had never seen anyone cry over an empanada before. But Friday evening, at O’Lala Empanadas, a small, family-owned empanada shop in Jersey City, I watched several people in tears as they took their last bites of the shop’s delicious, homestyle empanadas: It was the bustling shop’s last day in business and the Rosarios, who’d lovingly run O’Lala for “10 wonderful years,” were begrudgingly closing its doors for good.
Plainfield School Employee Pocketed $13K Meant For Program: Complaint
Between March 2021 and May 2023, Zelda Spence-Wallace, 54, pocketed $13,000 meant for the Plainfield Board of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Center Program and used it for her own personal gain, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Voice. Spence-Wallace was charged with theft by deception and theft...
Jersey City Man Gets 22 Years In State Prison For 2021 Shooting
27-year old, Jersey City resident Anthony Franklin has been sentenced to 22 years in New Jersey State Prison for a shooting that took place in Jersey City three years ago. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, the Honorable Carlo Abad, J.S.C. sentenced Franklin on Friday, April 19, 2024 for a shooting that occurred in Jersey City on April 5, 2021.
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