Super Summer Reader Club Week 5: Celebrating authors with ...
Here's what we're working on this weekend. Everett Merrill/Staff VideoYou can meet 10 authors at the Super Summer Reader Club festival on Aug. 25 and meet another 40 at the Morristown Festival of Books on Oct. 1Dan Gutman, best known for his Baseball Card Adventures series for children, the New York Times best-selling series, the Genius Files, and most recently, the best-selling "My Weird School" series, will take part in the Morristown Festival of Books on Oct. 1.(Photo: ~Photo courtes..>> view originalNewark shooting victim mum on who shot him, police say
NEWARK — Detectives are investigating a non-fatal shooting Sunday at a Newark public housing complex plagued by gun violence, but without much help from the young man shot, according to the city's public safety director. A 22-year-old Newark man was shot "multiple times" at about 5:30 p.m., at the Terrell Homes complex on Riverview Court, off Chapel Avenue, said Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose. The victim was taken to University Hospital for treatment. But other than giving h..>> view originalAndover 'monument(al) mystery' solved
Posted: Aug. 1, 2016 12:01 am NEWTON — While we now know it was a shipmate who built the Bunker Hill monument on Route 206 and we know it came to be in Andover because of the builder's best friend's connection to the abbey, the mystery isn't entirely solved.Still unknown is what happened to the anchor that was part of the monument for years?The black-painted anchor lay on its side at the front of the monument, put there by James Greene. It served as the original monument to the nearly 400 sa..>> view originalPassaic teens playing together for 2 months vie for national baseball ...
PASSAIC — The 42,319-seat Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, on the banks of the Ohio River, has hosted hundreds of Reds games, a presidential campaign rally and performances by Beyoncé and Paul McCartney. DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The Passaic Indians huddle after receiving their new jerseys on Sunday. Next stop: Cincinnati, and the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities tournament. Taking the field there this week are a group of teenagers fro..>> view originalSharp shifts focus to health, wellness
The mantra at Sharp Electronics' U.S. headquarters in Mahwah used to be bigger is better. Mitsu Yasukawa/staff photographer James Sanduski, left, Sharp Electronics' U.S. president, and Peter Weedfald, senior vice president, are leading the move into small appliances for health-conscious consumers. The Japanese electronics giant, once the leader in the television industry, spent the first part of this decade unveiling larger and larger flat-screen televisions, p..>> view originalSecret Life: Fraidy Reiss is not afraid
Obama addresses Panama Papers, tax loopholes; NJ lawmakers mull Youth Marriage Ban bill; Twitter's NFL streaming deal Central Jersey woman leads fight against underage marriageBuy PhotoFraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained at Last, is advocating for creating a law in each state to make underage marriage illegal. Fraidy was raised in a "matchmaker" marriage and left an abusive home and broke free from a community who has now announced her dead. She works in a central NJ office on July 27, 2..>> view originalFewer incidents of beached mammals in NJ this season
The number of mammal rescues along Jersey Shore beaches is down this year, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. ThinkStock “Last year we had 168 animals and this year we’re up to 63 right now,” said Director Bob Schoelkopf. The center currently is caring for a sea turtle picked up in Monmouth County with a small prop cut to its head, according to Schoelkopf. Last week, he said, a whale was struck and killed by a cargo ship in Newark Bay and had to be towed out to sea b..>> view originalEx-cop kills himself after chase; wife's body found in trunk
Posted: Sunday, July 31, 2016 2:45 pm Ex-cop kills himself after chase; wife's body found in trunk Associated Press | NEWARK (AP) — Authorities say a former police officer killed himself after a chase with police that led state troopers to finding the body of the ex-cop's wife in his trunk. Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please click the button below to m..>> view originalDrenched: N.J. rainfall totals, county by county
For anyone who was hoping the washed-out weekend marked the end of the soggy misery across New Jersey, there's some bad news: More rain is on the way. And, just like the rain that fell the past two days, it could be heavy at times. That's what the National Weather Service is predicting, as a pesky mass of warm and humid air that has been stuck over the Garden State since Saturday is taking its time to move away. "There's a frontal boundary that's kind of stalled out and meandering around the ..>> view originalShakur Stevenson: USA Boxing's best hope in Rio is just a kid from ...
NEWARK — They have come to a scarred blacktop basketball court near his childhood home, on a blistering afternoon in late spring, to be around their inspiration. His family is here, all eight of his younger siblings and both his parents, because they always follow him. His teachers from his grade school in the city are here, too, singing his praises about how he kept the peace in their classrooms when he was growing up. His handlers from USA Boxing are also hovering on blacktop, and the TV pro..>> view original
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