South Plainfield News

Graduating high school students soon will be adding one more course to their list before leaving school - and it could be the difference between life or death.

For a teenager, getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle for the first time can be challenging.

Alice DiNizo's resume may include entire decades spent as a children's librarian, but the recent retiree's rookie effort as a novelist is anything but PG-rated. The former South Plainfield resident and ex-Plainfield Public Library librarian is the author of 'Imperfect Past,' a recently published novel that treads over dark ground such as childhood ...

For Dennis Scalera, it is a practice that is as near to his heart as any. Scalera regularly would visit the gravesites of his father and uncle, paying respects and making sure they were well-maintained. Then, during one stop during the last year at the Holy Redeemer cemetery, Scalera noticed something was wrong.

One might call it deja vu all over again. In January, a year after formally relinquishing control of the Borough Council to Democrats, Republicans in this historically Democratic-leaning municipality will again be in charge.

The Home News Tribune has urged the ouster of the most incumbent legislators this year: six.A The HNT called for the defeat of Linda Greenstein , Wayne DeAngelo , Joseph Egan , Upendra Chivukula , Patrick Diegnan , and John Wisniewski .A Only Peter Barnes survived the wrath of the editorial board.A But the HNT also endorsed three incumbent ...

A man charged with stalking a woman after she lent him her minivan, accused him of driving it drunk, then called police when he refused to leave her home is being sought by authorities.

One of New Jersey's most significant environmental areas may soon get new protections that probably would limit development projects.

It's always a big deal when Frankie Valli comes back home to Newark. This trip back means something a little extra.

Barnes & Diegnan on Dismal Swamp Preservation Law In this video press release, Assembly Members Peter J. Barnes III and Patrick J. Diegnan, Jr.

I find it appalling that our current assemblymen Patrick Diegnan and Peter Barnes would resort to sending out mailers with so many untruths.

A midday blaze damaged a house and left one police officer with minor injuries, police said.

Math Genie, a program that combines ancient Asian instruction methods with modern research to teach young children to mentally perform complex calculations, recently opened its third location: 5001 Hadley Road South Plainfield, just past the Middlesex Mall.

Another portion of the plan to develop a safe route for large trucks to travel through town has the go-ahead from borough officials.

A state appellate court has upheld the conviction of a Perth Amboy man on an assault by auto charge in the borough.

South Amboy is in Middlesex County, New Jersey, on the Raritan Bay. There are a number of accredited Catholic schools located throughout the South Amboy area, which includes Edison and Westfield, New Jersey.

Years after residents and officials first blew the whistle on increasing noise from trains and their horns, the township reached an agreement with Conrail this month on creating four "quiet zones" at rail crossings in Woodbridge Proper and the Sewaren section section of the township.

Nimrod Webb, Jr., owns Netherwood Auto Repair Center in Plainfield. His business has been affected from the shutting down of parts of Muhlenberg Hospital.

Police are offering a monetary reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who stabbed a Franklin man in the throat during the borough's Labor Day fireworks display.

Metuchen's Elizabeth Nadler moves the ball past Jamie McLean in the second half as South Plainfield falls to Metuchen, 1-0, in girls field hockey action in South Plainfield.