December 10th Meeting To Interview Service Professionals

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 10, 2018

The governing body has scheduled two (2) special meetings this month to interview for 16 professional service contracts for the coming year. This will be the second year that this new process of having the entire governing body being able to directly speak as a group to those wanting to serve the borough will occur. […]

RP 12-U Fallball Allstars Recognized For Championship

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 8, 2018

The Roselle Park 12-U Fallball Allstars were given Certificates of Recognition for winning this season’s Fallball Championship. The 12-girl team had a bumpy start according to Second Ward Councilman Joseph Petrosky who said during the presentation, “During the summer it was so-so and the girls improved so much and it came to Fall Ball and […]

2 Resignations & 1 Promotion For Crossing Guards

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 8, 2018

At Thursday night’s municipal meeting, the governing body officially accepted the resignation of two crossing guards and promoted one alternate crossing guard. Michael Maiorelli’s resignation as an Alternate Crossing Guard which already took effect on November 21st was retroactively accepted.  Crossing Guard Thomas Thompson submitted his resignation effective December 3rd and that was accepted retroactively […]

Council Recognizes Knights Of The Year

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 8, 2018

At the November 29th Mayor & Council meeting, Roselle Park residents Greg Delano and Joseph DeMarco were recognized for being named the 2019 Knights of the Year by the Monsignor Joseph F. Loreti Council of the Knights of Columbus. Greg Delano serves as the council’s Chancellor and Joseph DeMarco is the Advocate for the Knights […]

Council Votes To Approve Romerovski Amendment To Redeveloper’s Agreement

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 7, 2018

After a closed session at the end of last night’s municipal meeting, council unanimously approved the amendment to the redeveloper’s agreement for the property locally known as the Romerovski property. A little after 11 p.m., the governing body came back into open session for the public from their executive session and, without comment or discussion, […]

Property/Sewer Taxes Can Now Be Paid Online With Credit Card

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: December 3, 2018

Residents can, as of December 1st, pay their property and sewer taxes online at the Roselle Park official website. In the works since last year, the functionality to pay with a credit card or electronic check from the borough’s website has been activated. Clicking on the link under Departments>Tax Collector, visitors can click on “Online […]

Roselle Park’s Population On Its Way To 14,000+

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: November 25, 2018

As Roselle Park closes on its 117th year of existence, research for another article gave some basic information on the actual people of the borough. The population of the borough – which started with the first official count of 2,236 people in 1905 – has grown over 11 decades and is on its way to being 14,000. […]

2018 RP Voter Turnout 9th Lowest In County

By Saul Qersdyn

Published: November 23, 2018

With the election results being certified last Friday, the county released numbers about those who voted earlier this month. Union County data showed that out of the 8,578 registered voters in Roselle Park, 4,835 were shown to have cast a ballot on election day this year – about 56%. In relation to the other 20 […]