The Local Girl Labor Day has come and gone, and while we’re not sure whether it’s summer or fall, we do have some interesting headlines for you from throughout the Garden State. From new O’Bagel and Saigon Bistro locations to Hoboken’s first restaurant week and a nude cyclist evading police in Readington, here’s a roundup of the New Jersey news you might have missed this week.
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– Communities throughout New Jersey are holding ceremonies, vigils, memorial services, blood drives, and other events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks (The New Jersey Girl).
– The Local Girl team created an unofficial New Jersey holiday calendar celebrating some of the Garden State’s most distinctly Jersey foods, traditions, places, and cultural moments throughout the year (The Hoboken Girl).
– Paper Mill Playhouse received a $150,000 Disney grant to bring free musical theater residencies to four eligible Essex County public elementary schools (The Montclair Girl).
– New Jersey will receive at least $525 million and potentially more than $752 million from a multistate settlement with Meta (The New Jersey Girl).
– Hoboken has adopted a new waterfront sound ordinance requiring permits for outdoor amplified sound in the I-1W district north of 14th Street (The Hoboken Girl).
– The Hoboken Business Alliance is launching the city’s first-ever Hoboken Restaurant Week from November 9th through November 22nd (The Hoboken Girl).
– Montclair State University opened a nearly 2,500-square-foot virtual reality facility that will bring immersive technology into student coursework (The Montclair Girl).
– Stan’s Sports Center, a longtime Hoboken sporting goods store that first opened in 1946, is closing its Washington Street storefront after 80 years in business (The Hoboken Girl).
– Blue Bottle Coffee opened its first New Jersey location at Garden State Plaza in Paramus on September 9th (The Bergen County Girl).
– Police in Readington Township are asking the public to help identify a man who has reportedly been spotted riding an e-bike nude along local trails for years (New York Post).
– More than 1,100 people have signed a petition opposing a proposed warehouse development in a residential Essex County neighborhood (NJ.com).
– Violent crime in New Jersey dropped nearly 12% in 2025 and is about 70% below its 1990 peak, while Montclair recorded 32 violent crimes and saw its local violent crime rate fall more than 40% year over year (Montclair Patch).
– Westfield Public Schools is investigating a districtwide network outage that was potentially caused by a ransomware attack, disrupting the first day of school (Union County Life).
– A New Jersey gun range owner helped restrain an unruly American Airlines passenger accused of attacking fellow passengers on a Dallas-to-Newark flight (New York Post).
– O’Bagel is opening its Parsippany location on September 12th at 9:30AM , and the first 100 customers get free food and prizes (Instagram).
– The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is proposing a nearly six-mile Garden State Parkway expansion in Ocean County (Jersey Shore Online).
– NJ Students are headed back to school without their phones, as a new New Jersey law requiring public school districts to restrict students’ cellphone and other personal-device use throughout the school day took effect this school year (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
– NJ Transit has upgraded real-time bus tracking technology and introduced free onboard Wi-Fi on more than 1,500 buses, with the improvements expected to reach nearly 2,000 buses by the end of 2026 (NJ TRANSIT).
– Clementon Park + Splash World has permanently closed after the South Jersey amusement and water park announced that September 9th would be its final day of operation (Disney Fanatic).
– Passaic’s annual Mexican Independence Day Parade has been postponed indefinitely, with organizers citing concerns about recent ICE arrests and fears over the safety of community members attending the event (CBS News New York).
– Rutgers men’s basketball head coach Steve Pikiell announced that he is undergoing cancer treatment following successful surgery and plans to remain involved with the team as much as possible during the season (Rutgers Athletics).
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