Port Reading News

BLOOMFIELD a ' Bloomfield College held a ceremony to honor students named to the Deana TMs List for the spring semester on Oct.

Angelo Carbonaro thinks it "sounds selfish" - the reasons why rose through the ranks of the Boy Scouts to become an Eagle Scout - yet they're anything but.

Grass, reeds, mud, birds and tadpoles is what you should find along the Rahway River.

Automated trash and recycling pickup will expand to 5,300 more households in the township beginning next month.

U.S. and Canadian East Coast oil interests bracing for their second ocean storm in two weeks on Friday said they were keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Danny and can activate storm preparedness plans if needed.

Union County Sheriff Ralph Froehlich welcomes Sgt. Cliff Meros back to duty in the Sheriff's Office after returning from a year-long deployment to Iraq.

Thieves took some $2,400 worth of tools and electronics Tuesday morning from an SUV parked outside a Port Reading home, police said.

The exterior of a township resident's vehicle was likely scratched with a key on Thursday, police said.

Call for Entries: The International 2009/2010 ARC Salon 6th Annual Competition With More Than $48,000 in Awards The Art Renewal Center , a 501c3 Educational Foundations, was founded in 1999 for the advancement of traditional representational art.

A burglar stole a GPS unit after breaking into a Port Reading man's car overnight Monday, police said.

A Port Reading man reported a burglary at his home Wednesday after a downstairs tenant saw a suspicious person enter the house and then flee, police said.

Woodbridge Mayor John E. McCormac today announced that the Woodbridge Township Police Department responded to 43 complaints of illegal fireworks on July 4th, issued three summonses to residents identified as possessing illegal fireworks, and confiscated more than 1,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from various locations throughout the Township.

Township residents looking to mark Independence Day with a bang ended up with a bust after police confiscated more than a thousand pounds of illegal fireworks before they could be detonated, officials said Tuesday.

A Port Reading man was arrested Wednesday on charges he shoplifted from a Woodbridge Center store and then took a swing at a security guard who tried to stop him, police said.

They've been called everything from nutty and whimsical to innovative and brilliant.

Six members of Boy Scout Troop 31 of Port Reading have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.

A ceremony honoring six young men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout was held on Friday, May 1st.

The death toll of the flu epidemic of 1918 is hard to comprehend. In a four-month period beginning in October of 1918, the New Jersey Department of Health attributed 18,306 deaths to what was known as the 'Spanish Flu.' Ten children of Daniel and Mary Hayduk of the Port Reading section of Woodbridge died in a one-month period that fall.