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Cecilia Levine

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Business

Shuttered Wedding Venue One Step Closer To Becoming First Grocery Store For NJ Town One New Jersey town is about to get its first full-fledge supermarket in decades, and it'll be replacing a longtime wedding venue. Lidl is nearly complete with demolition to Snuffy’s Pantagis Renaissance, the more than 80-year-old wedding venue along Route 22 in Scotch Plains that shuttered sometime during the pandemic, according to Tom Strowe, the towns' director of redevelopment. Strowe struggled to remember the last time Scotch Plains had its own grocery store. The closest ones now are the ShopRite in Watchung or South Plainfield, Aldi in South Plainfield, or perhaps Trader Joe…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Police & Fire

Arlington Murder-Suicide Couple ID'd By Police Police have identified the couple found dead in a murder-suicide in Arlington this week. Nadejda Mossor, 22, and Jason Han, 37, who were in a relationship, were found by maintenance workers conducting a welfare check around 4:15 Monday, March 5, in their home on the 500 block of 12th Street S, police said. "Inside the bedroom, responding officers located an adult male and adult female deceased from apparent gunshot wounds," authorities said. "Based on the preliminary investigation, the incident is being investigated as an apparent homicide-suicide. Final determination of cause a…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Police & Fire

VA Man Pepper-Sprays Boy, Labradoodle Then Follows Them, Sprays Dog Again: Cops A 70-year-old man has been arrested after pepper-spraying a 16-year-old and the boy's dog in Northern Virginia, police said. James Michael Timberlake was walking his dog when he encountered the boy and his unleashed labrador-poodle mix on Forestdale Avenue in Woodbridge early Tuesday, Feb. 27, Prince William County police said. "As the two dogs began to interact, [Timberlake] pepper-sprayed the victim’s dog," police sad. "After the victim secured his dog, the accused followed them onto the victim’s property where the accused pepper-sprayed the victim and then the dog …

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

News

Virginia Army Reservist Used COVID Scam To Pay Swindlers Overseas: Feds A Virginia Army reservist was apparently no better than the people he thought he was fooling. Russell Laraway, 56, of Leesburg, admitted he fraudulently claimed more than $400,000 in a COVID relief fund scheme, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica D. Aber said. Being busted by the feds ultimately may have saved Laraway, though, who allegedly gave some of his hard-earned cash to foreign entities "in scams of which he was a victim," Aber's office said. According to court documents, Laraway incorporated two business entities that he purported to operate out of …

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Police & Fire

Bicyclist Pushed Off, Robbed By Group While Riding On W&OD Trail: Leesburg Pd Police are investigating the robbery of a bicyclist on the W&OD trail in Leesburg. The victim was riding his bike along the trail near East Market Street around 9:35 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, when he was confronted by five Hispanic males, local police said. The group pushed the victim off of his bike, assaulted him, and took his belongings, police said. Four of the suspects were dressed in all black, and one was dressed in some white clothing. The victim sustained minor injuries during the incident. Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has any information that coul…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Obituaries

Col. Kenneth Yeasky, Decorated Army Veteran From NJ, Dies Suddenly (Tribute) Col. Kenneth John Yeasky, of Belvidere, passed away unexpectedly on March 3, 2024, his family writes in his obituary on the MacFadden Funeral Home website. He was 60 years old. Ken was born on July 3, 1963 to Mary Ann “Tommie” Tomczyk and the late Edwin Yeasky. He grew up in Carteret and graduated from Green Brook High School (Somerset County). Ken had a distinguished 38-year military career at multiple levels in different branches. He graduated from Kean University with a bachelor's in industrial engineering, and had graduated from numerous other military schools. "He wanted to be…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Obituaries

Northern VA Soccer Community Mourns Loss Of Coaching Legend Ken Krieger, 69 The death of one of the region's most successful soccer coaches has left Northern Virginia grieving. Ken Krieger, of Manassas, died Monday, March 4. He was 69 years old. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ali Krieger (@alikrieger) Krieger's brother, Scott, said he died of Alzheimer's, "a dreaded disease that first robbed him of his mind, then proceeded to shut down his body. "He will missed not only by his family, but by the many students, players, coaches, teachers, colleagues and friends whose lives he touched," Scott said. …

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Police & Fire

Bucks German Shepherd Owner Charged After Letting Dog Run Loose — Again: Police A 52-year-old Bucks County woman has been charged after her dog was found running loose, again. A white German Shepherd belonging to Heather M. Fitzgerald, of Passer Road in Coopersburg, was found off her property and "not under reasonable control," Springfield police said. "Under PA State Law - Enforcement and Penalties, a Confinement violation increases to a Misdemeanor of the Third Degree if the owner has been convicted of the same offense within one year, which was the case with Fitzgerald," local police said. Authorities did not say when the earlier event happened. A prel…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Weather

Drenching Rain, 45 MPH Winds: New Storm Moving Toward Northeast Forecasters are warning of a weekend storm bringing widespread rain and gusty winds to the Northeast, creating yet another flood risk. Thursday, March 7 will be be mild with scattered showers while Friday, March 8 will be mostly sunny with temps in the mid-50s, forecasters say. Saturday, March 9 is when the new storm will begin moving into the region with rain beginning in the afternoon and lasting overnight, according to the National Weather Service. About an inch of rain is expected to fall, which the National Weather Service says isn't much, but given an already-wet ground "there is pot…

by Cecilia Levine

03/07/2024

Traffic

Police ID Pickup Driver Killed In Route 1 New Brunswick Crash (Update) Police have identified the driver killed in a Route 1 in New Brunswick early Wednesday, March .6 Dennis Frick, 65, of Freehold, was in a Ford pickup truck when he was struck by an Infiniti around 7:45 a.m. near the Morris Goodkind Bridge, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and New Brunswick Police Chief Vincent Frick was pronounced at the scene. The investigation is active and continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Henry Gliottone of the New Brunswick Police Department at 732-745-5005 or Detective Jim Alleva of the Middle…

by Jon Craig & Cecilia Levine

03/06/2024

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