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Join The 13th Annual Sarah Vaughan Jazz Competition: Registration Now Open, Harlem!
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced the opening of the 13th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The search is on for the next great jazz singer! Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged to submit their entries before September 3, 2024, by visiting SarahVaughanCompetition.com. In the Fall, the Top Five Finalists will be announced followed by a star-studded final performance on the iconic NJPAC stage.
Thousands of dollars of football equipment stolen from North Carolina high school
A high school in North Carolina had thousands of dollars of football equipment stolen over the weekend. The thefts at West Caldwell High School (Lenoir, North Carolina) took place on Sunday. The equipment stolen included nearly two dozen helmets that were taken from the football team’s fieldhouse. The loss...
Kyle Monangai prepared to enter season healthy and ready to reach expectations
Kyle Monangai completely changed courses in 2023. The product of Don Bosco High School entered Rutgers as a developmental player in what head coach Greg Schiano has called a developmental program. In his first two years with the Scarlet Knights, Monangai carried the ball a total of 171 times. Last season, Monangai went from developmental player to star in the Big Ten.
MAAC Reveals 2024-25 Men's Hoops Slate
EDISON, N.J. – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) announced the 2024-25 men's basketball schedule via social media Thursday morning. Niagara will play a total of 20 league game with two games against eight of its 12 conference opponents while playing Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart and Iona once. The...
Staten Island doctor opens new family practice where she strives to make ‘everyone feel safe’
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Dr. Nor Darwish, 37, said her vast interest in the sciences, combined with a penchant for helping people, made the career of a doctor appealing to her as a child. Having never lost that ambition, this single-mom who is fluent in Arabic, has just opened her own practice on Staten Island.
MTA bus careens into restaurant in Brooklyn; owner from Staten Island, report says
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A MTA bus crashed into a Burger King restaurant in Brooklyn early on Thursday morning leaving the driver in critical condition, according to police. Officers saw a MTA bus that crashed into a Burger King restaurant at 3301 Ft. Hamilton Parkway near Dahill Road at about 12:11 a.m., according to a spokeswoman for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.
Jersey City cannabis dispensary is 1st in Hudson County to unionize employees
The Cannabis Place, a Jersey City dispensary, is the first in Hudson County sign a union recognition agreement, in this case, with the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 360. Union recognition agreements provide a framework for industrial relations within an organization, setting out the rules and procedures to be...
15-Year-Old Arrested For Fatal Headshot In Trenton: Prosecutor
The suspect was arrested by U.S. Marshals without incident on Wednesday, July 24 in Norfolk, Va, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri. He was charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses, Onofri said. At approximately 12:25 a.m. on July 9, Trenton police responded to the 200 block of...
Dog Who Has Spent Nearly His Entire Life At Bergen Animal Shelter Needs Home (And More)
Two are strays and two are surrenders.All four dogs are ready for find their fur-ever families.The pups featured in this news article are among dozens who are ready to be adopted out from the Bergen County Animal Shelter in Teterboro. View this post on Instagram …
Public disgust for NJ man accused of beheading seagull at Jersey Shore
Lots of disgust from the public after a Cape May man was charged with animal cruelty for a deadly attack on a seagull at the Jersey Shore. The 29-year-old has been accused of beheading a seagull at a popular Wildwood location. On July 6, North Wildwood police were called to...
2024-25 Big East Women’s Basketball Summer Check-In: Seton Hall Pirates
2023-24 Big East Finish: 7th, one game behind Georgetown, two games in front of a Butler/Providence tie for 8th. Final 2023-24 Her Hoop Stats Ranking: #71 out of 360 teams. Postseason? A first round win over #10 seeded DePaul turned into a Big East tournament quarterfinal loss to #2 seed Creighton. Seton Hall still had enough juice to get into the WBIT, the secondary tourney that the NCAA ran this past season, but they took a 54-47 road loss to Saint Joseph’s in the first round to end their season.
Rutgers leads for 2026 Top100 WR Dyzier Carter, but others are pushing
Woodberry Forest (Va.) High Top100 receiver Dyzier Carter is a big-time talent in the class of 2026. 247Sports ranks the 6-foot, 180-pounder as the junior cycle's No. 88 overall prospect, No. 12 wide receiver and No. 3 player in Virginia. On the recruiting front, Carter has just shy of 20...
2025 big man Gevonte Ware talks new offer from Rutgers Basketball
Rutgers Basketball sent out a new offer this past week to Gevonte Ware out of North Carolina, as he took to social media to announce the news. The 6-foot-8, 228-pound prospect hails from 1 of 1 Prep Academy down in Charlotte, North Carolina and spoke with The Knight Report about his new offer not too long after receiving the news.
Another large warehouse proposed for vacant land in N.J. town
A new distribution warehouse is scheduled to be proposed Thursday night for a large swath of vacant land in Middlesex County. Federal Business Centers, an Edison-based real estate developer, wants to develop land near North Disbrow Hill Road and Butcher Road in Monroe into a 176,085-square-foot warehouse and office space, according to the plans.
Seward Johnson Statues Debut In Downtown Westfield
WESTFIELD — A new art installation that celebrates life’s quiet moments has been turning heads in Westfield where residents and visitors alike are invited to check out five different sculptures by the late artist Seward Johnson. Mr. Johnson, who founded Hamilton’s Grounds For Sculpture in 1992, is known...
N.J. Supreme Court rules against rabbi who accused school of falsely branding him a ‘pedophile’
The state’s highest court ruled Thursday that a New Jersey yeshiva had a right to tell families why it fired a rabbi, dismissing his claims that the school falsely branded him a “pedophile.”. In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court found that “ministerial exception” applied to Rabbi...
Major Organizational Changes Come to Westfield’s Department of Public Works
WESTFIELD, NJ — With a recently appointed new director of public works, the Town of Westfield is forging ahead with organizational changes that bring renewed focus on services for residents, strategic areas of change for the downtown and new opportunities for growth for existing Westfield employees. Forestry, Roads, Fleet Management and Parks and Fields are now supervisor-level positions within the Department of Public works, according to Mayor Shelly Brindle’s weekly update to residents on July 5.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The letter also indicates that the downtown management level position is maintained. This position partners...
Lightning Halts Westfield/SOM Cougars NPGL 11U 2nd Round Playoff Game
Mother Nature called the shots in the New Providence Green League 11U second-round playoff game between the Westfield Black and the South-Orange-Maplewood (SOM) Cougars at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on July 16.After eight SOM Cougars created some lightning of their own in the top of the first inning, a series of lightning strikes in the vicinity kept the coaches, fans and players off the field long enough to force the showdown to another day.
St. George Men Plate 4 in 6th To Silence St. Sebastian, 10-6
Entering the past week of St. Bart’s Oldtimers Men’s Softball League action, seven of the eight teams were within two games of each other for the possibility of grabbing the No. 2 spot, while the St.Anthony squad was perched way ahead of the herd at the top spot. With identical records at 58 and sharing the shallow cellar with St. Wolfgang, the St. George boys managed to snap a 6-6 tie with four runs in the top of the sixth inning then held on to defeat St. Sebastian, 10-6, at Brookside Park on July 19 ( the day before the 55th Anniversary of Man’s landing on the Moon).
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