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NYC Man Rescued After Hours Adrift in Open Ocean
Imagine enjoying a hot summer day at the beach, only to find yourself suddenly pulled into the open ocean by a rip tide. This exact scenario happened to a New York City man, Peter Ordane, who ended up two miles from the shoreline of New Jersey's Sandy Hook after a swim in Queens on Monday. His story is a reminder of the power and unpredictability of nature.
New Jersey Hall of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees
NEWARK, NJ – On the heels of opening its new location at American Dream, the New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) has announced its next class of inductees. The list of 18 honorees includes actress Meryl Streep, actor Paul Rudd, Jersey Mike’s Subs founder Peter Cancro, former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, and singer-songwriter Lesley Gore. The inductees will be celebrated at the 16th Annual New Jersey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. This year, the ceremony will be a pre-taped television special, filmed at the 10,000-square-foot NJHOF at American Dream and other satellite exhibits. The special...
Costco change to a popular food item upsets customers in NJ
Costco has made a big change to its rotisserie chickens and customers are not thrilled about it. The change is not about the taste of the $4.99 chickens but the way they are packaged. As of March, the membership-only warehouse store began replacing its hard-plastic packaging with flexible plastic bags,...
High Levels Of Fecal Contamination Found At 4 More New Jersey Beaches
Summer at the Jersey Shore means long days on the beach, ice cream on the boardwalk, the sound of seagulls swooping overhead, and high levels of bacteria in the water. 4 more NJ beaches are now under advisory due to high fecal bacteria contamination. It's not something we're unfamiliar with.
Too many reusable grocery bags? What you can do with them in NJ
🔴A groundbreaking plan for unwanted reusable bags launched in NJ last year. 🔴Residents can donate their unwanted bags to local food banks. 🔴The initiative has proven successful over the past 12 months. Not sure what to do with all those reusable bags piled up in your house...
Punish parents for raising rampaging teens, NJ lawmakers say
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP — State lawmakers want to put laws on the books to prosecute teens who bring violence to family events and to hold their parents accountable for raising a bad egg. Assemblyman Dan Hutchison, D-Camden, says his peers were inspired to crack down on rowdy teens after a...
Has New Jersey’s Plastic Bag Ban Actually Backfired?
A question for all New Jersey residents: How many reusable bags do you have piled up in your house right now?. If they're cluttering your pantries and closets, untouched, and ironically not reused, you're not alone. And according to a study, it's causing a bigger problem in New Jersey. The...
Test calling ISIS terrorists sparks trouble for NJ school superintendent
WAYNE — Parents are holding a school superintendent's feet to the fire after he apologized for a test question that called ISIS an Islamic terror group. The multiple choice question was part of a quiz in a seventh-grade class at Schuyler-Colfax Middle School in Wayne, according to the group Teaching While Muslim.
Celebrated NJ township official stole recreation permit fees, cops say
BRICK — An award-winning recreation director has been charged with stealing municipal fees. Daniel Santaniello, 46, of Brick, asked private organizations that pay township facility permit fees to pay him directly in cash instead of paying the township, investigators said/. Santaniello pocketed the cash and issued fraudulent receipts to...
Historic Monument Vandalized at Pride For Second Year Running
Repeated acts of vandalism mark Pride month celebrations at one of the most important LGBTQ+ monuments. For the second year in a row, more than 150 Pride flags hung at the Stonewall National Monument were destroyed. Extent of the Damage. In Greenwich Village, someone vandalized more than 160 flags inside...
Seven most expensive homes sold in Hackensack, July 8-14
A house that sold for $675,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Hackensack in the past week. In total, seven residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $438,000, or $379 per square foot.
Union City Honors Colombian Independence With Flag Raising
Union City raised the Colombian flag at International Plaza on Friday afternoon, as the South American country celebrates 225 years of independence from Spain. The ceremony was well attended. The Union City Board of Commissioners presented two proclamations to local, Colombian Americans. Poet Gilma Camargo Aguirre and recently retired North...
Heat Wave Impact: Low-Income New Yorkers Battle Power Issues in NYC
WFCN – A recent report was presented on Thursday by an anti-poverty group that found that over two-thirds of low-income New Yorkers are experiencing electricity bill fallbacks. A study conducted by the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University examined energy insecurity in the five boroughs. The findings revealed that...
Ex-Marine and commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management Zach Iscol
Zach Iscol served in Iraq as a Marine and is now commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management. “We are always activated. We’re always responding to stuff,” he says. How to prepare for the worst.
Knobloch Delivers OT Win for Chaos, Balanced Outlaws Beat Waterdogs
Blaze Riorden’s 18th save early in overtime set the stage for Shane Knobloch, a rookie and Andy Towers’ target in the Premier Lacrosse League College Draft regardless of how it shook out, made good on his coach’s trust. The Rutgers alum delivered the winner for the Carolina...
South Orange Rescue Squad and the South Essex Fire Department provide Assistance to Newark Fire Department Multiple times on a single day.
SOUTH ORANGE, MAPLEWOOD and NEWARK – The original Newark is below with details of the fire. Missing in the article is the fact the South Essex Fire Department (SEFD) provided mutual aid to the Newark Fire Department at the noon fire and again in the evening. For the daytime fire, SEFD sent Engine 32 and Ladder Truck E-1, while only one Engine, number 32, was requested for aid that evening. This is an example of the kind of assistance our Fire Company and SORS EMS provide. These fires were on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. The South Orange...
Floodwater bursts through wall of NYCHA apartment
NEW YORK -- The situation for a NYCHA tenant has gone from bad to worse after ankle-deep water inundated her Brooklyn apartment during Wednesday's storm. The foul-smelling water seemed to bubble up from a sewage drain on Yadira Soto's floor at the Borinquen Plaza Houses in Williamsburg."Every time it rains, it doesn't matter if it's light rain, heavy rain, we get flooded. The whole apartment gets flooded. It's so much water that the neighbors get hit with our water," said Soto. "Out of nowhere ... the water just burst out" Water also burst through her bedroom wall while she was in bed. "Out...
Meet the Somerset County 4-H award recipients for 2024
Somerset County 4-H has named its 2024 award recipients. Outstanding Member recipients must have completed their junior year of high school and be active in the Somerset County 4-H program. Benbow has been working with 4-H for nine years, holding multiple officer positions and becoming the first recipient of the...
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