Tara Condon Wager's identity was tied to many things.She was a mom and a wife, first and foremost.She was an autism advocate to her son and others at the Santiago & Friends Family Center for Autism, where she worked.Tara was a Jersey Girl -- Paterson, born and raised. And as she spent her final days battling Stage 4 colon cancer, Tara expressed her dying wish: To be buried in ...

Route 10 will be closed in either direction Friday as a result of a water main break in Denville.On the eastbound side, the roadway is closed between Franklin Road and Mount Pleasant Turnpike, and one lane on the westbound side will be closed, local police said.Police did not have a timeline on the completion of emergency construction.

A teenager and a a younger sibling called 911 after a fire broke out at their Parsippany home, ultimately displacing the family, authorities said.The two were on the second floor of the Allentown Road home when they smelled smoke just before fire alarms went off around 5:40 p.m. Thursday, Parsippany police said.The pair was able to get out uninjured as heavy smoke billowed from the ...

Mr. Geez -- a family-run restaurant -- recently opened in Lyndhurst.The Schuyler Avenue joint was launched in the fall by Steve Goodman, also known as "Mr. G," who helms the operation with help from his wife, Debbie, and son, Michael.Everything is made from scratch at Mr. Geez, including breakfast platters (pancakes, omelets, waffles, French toast, muffins), paninis, soups, gourmet ...

Chick-fil-A is making fast food even faster at its new Ramsey location.The restaurant -- on northbound Route 17 at the shopping center that houses Uncle Giuseppe's and a 24-Hour Fitness -- has double-ordering lanes merging into a single payment lane.The outdoor environmentally-controlled canopy for face-to-face ordering is expected to increase volume of up to 150 cars per hour through ...

American Dream's indoor ski and snow board facility Big SNOW opens Thursday.Here's what it'll cost you.Note that packages are $20 cheaper if purchased online.The package comes with with ski/snowboard equipment rentals, pants and a jacket, a helmet, 2-hour slope access and complimentary access to the Terrain Based Learning™ skills areas with instructors.The packages (valid for ...

When Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar signed a lease at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in 2012, its section of the mall was bustling.Seven years later and the burger restaurant remains one of the few tenants remaining in its section.Several retailers were vacated in 2017 and 2018 -- including JCPenney -- and Zinburger is down nearly 20 percent in sales, making it unprofitable, ...

Authorities charged a 45-year-old Frenchtown man in connection with a barricaded incident Wednesday morning.Shane P. Lawrence was charged with unlawful weapon possession and terroristic threats after a standoff with the Hunterdon County SWAT Team and local police at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, Acting Hunterdon County Prosecutor Michael J. Williams said.The incident near Milford Road was ...

A winning New Jersey Lottery ticket was sold in Hackensack.The Mega Millions ticket from Tuesday's drawing won the third-tier price of $10,000.The ticket was sold at Buddy's Wine & Liquor's on Hudson Street.The winning numbers were 23, 43, 60, 63 and 69. The Gold Mega Ball was 19, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 02.Another winning ticket was also sold in Burlington County.

A Warren County man who was charged with sexually assaulting a girl for five years since she was 12 had his teaching license revoked, state education officials said.Michael I. Levitt, of Washington, whose LinkedIn page said he worked at -- Katzenbach - New Jersey's School for the Deaf in Ewing -- was indicted on multiple charges of sexual assault, child endangerment and aggravated ...