Plainfield News

A municipal court hearing is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 7 after a Plainfield Public Schools administrator alleged that his supervisor, district Assistant Superintendent Angela Kemp, physically assaulted him during a staff meeting earlier this school year.

The city of Vineland, New Jersey, once known as the "Egg Basket of America" for its successful role in the egg and poultry industry in the late 40's, boasts a formidable fowl as a mascot for the Vineland Fighting Clan.

A 2.54-acre horse farm in Rahway has been acquired by Union County to preserve the land from development.

Plainfield and General Motors have a lot more in common than any of us would like to think.

THEFT, Nov. 14. A Wilson Avenue resident told police he had rented a furnished room to two women known to him as Erica and Glenda.

The city's Health Division has announced a free vaccine clinic for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, on Saturday.

A Plainfield man was found guilty today of punching a supervisor after a heated exchange .

Police are continuing to investigate a Tuesday night shooting that left a city man seriously injured.

On Nov. 5, 2008, my mother, Belinda D. Williams, was found dead behind an abandoned home in the 100 block of Liberty Street in Plainfield.

Plainfield City Administrator Marc Dashield last week introduced a $73 million budget to the City Council and said the average city household can expect to pay about $400 more in taxes during the fiscal year.

Constructed of thick stone and overgrown with ivy in spots, taking on the appearance of a miniature castle, the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield's historic 1889 Park Avenue building looks like something pulled straight out of the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien or Lewis Carroll.

A Plainfield man has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on a first-degree robbery charge.

VNIELAND - The Cumberland County College Board of Trustees has narrowed its search for a new college president down to three.

North Plainfield Man Sentenced For Arson and Insurance Fraud Related to Vehicle Fire By Office of the Essex County Prosecutor 11/13/2009 Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow today announced that a Vailsburg Middle School guidance counselor was sentenced in court this morning for having his vehicle and his friend's vehicle destroyed by fire in order ...

A 36-year-old woman who was reported missing earlier this week has been found. Bound Brook Police were notified Sunday by a live-in boyfriend indicating that Rebecca Maybin-Brazil had not been seen since Oct.

In the law enforcement equivalent of a mad dash to the finish line, the Plainfield Police Division has launched what is being described as an unprecedented anti-crime initiative in order to achieve a goal of keeping the city's serious crime rate at a historic low through the end of the year.

In the past, the only price speeders barreling down Kensington Avenue had to pay was the cost of a ticket - assuming, of course, that a police officer was in the right position to spot them.

It wasn't until U.S. Army Sgt. Harold Carmen set foot on Bosnian soil and endured two tours of duty in Iraq that he truly understood.

Plainfield Artist Lydia R. Watson Featured at the Pearl St. Gallery in Elizabeth By County of Union 11/11/2009 The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce an exhibit by multimedia artist Lydia R. Watson of Plainfield in the gallery space at the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, 633 Pearl Street in ...

If Plainfield Republicans haven't exactly given up hope of cracking the city power structure, they're certainly not trying very hard these days.