Carino, Jerry. "In huge blow, Sterling Gibbs leaving Seton Hall basketball", Asbury Park Press, April 28, 2015. Accessed January 15, 2019. "The final thud from Seton Hall's freefall in men's basketball echoed Tuesday with news that Sterling Gibbs – a homegrown talent and the face of the program – is leaving to take a postgraduate year elsewhere.... Like Sina, the Scotch Plains native committed to the Hall at a time when Willard was scraping for recruits."
Sheldon, Linzi. "Wall Street Journal selects Dartmouth junior Joseph Malchow as a 2007 Bartley Fellow", Dartmouth News, April 11, 2007. Accessed March 16, 2015. "Dartmouth junior Joseph Malchow has been chosen as a 2007 Bartley fellow, winning a paid summer internship at The Wall Street Journal.... Malchow, a native of Scotch Plains, N.J., is a government major and prospective English major at Dartmouth."
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"History". Delaware Nation. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
Mazzeo, Mike. "N.J. native lifts No. 2 Pitt over Rutgers", ESPN New York, January 30, 2011. Accessed April 21, 2011. "Pittsburgh junior guard Ashton Gibbs grew up 25 minutes from the Louis Brown Athletic Center in nearby Scotch Plains. Leave it to the hometown kid to stick the dagger in the hearts of the home crowd."
Duggan, Lillian (October 28, 1999). "Stage House Inn Continues"(PDF). Our Towns: 2nd Annual Edition. pp. 12–13. Archived from the original(PDF) on February 7, 2015.
Peyton, Paul J.; and Rossi, Fred. "Alan M. Augustine Dies Following Long Illness", The Westfield Leader, June 14, 2001. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Mr. Augustine was also well-known for the 20 years he spent as a member of the Scotch Plains Township Council."
Staff. "Henry Beenders, 87, Pro Basketball Player; Was Member of NBA Championship Team", The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood Times, October 30, 2003. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Born in Haarlem, Holland, he emigrated to the United States 79 years ago. He had lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. and in Scotch Plains before relocating to Bridgewater 36 years ago."
"Honoring Former High School Greats"Archived June 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Times of Scotch Plains-Fanwood, November 13, 1997. "Mayor Connelly presented a plaque to Mr. Scarpati, who lettered in football, basketball and track for the Raiders and served as the captain of the football team in 1959. Mr. Scarpati went on to play as a defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints professional football teams, and was the holder of the record-setting 63-yard (58 m) field goal kicked by Tom Dempsey in 1970 during the game between the Saints and the Detroit Lions."
Biography, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. Accessed January 3, 2019. "Watson Coleman and her husband William reside in Ewing Township and are blessed to have three sons; William, Troy, and Jared and three grandchildren; William, Kamryn and Ashanee."
Ware, David S. "David S. Ware"Archived October 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, June 2003. Accessed August 9, 2011. "'Come on girls, we're going to put you in the magazine,' says David S. Ware, calling Bibi and Mikuro into the music room of his three-story house in Scotch Plains, N.J.... Ware drove taxis for 14 years in New York City, where he relocated in 1973 after growing up in Scotch Plains and later attending Boston's Berklee College of Music."
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Directions, Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey. Accessed December 18, 2011.
Russell, Suzanne. "'He just served': Scotch Plains Tuskegee Airman's school now bears his name", Courier News, November 11, 2021. Accessed August 12, 2022. "So the renaming of his former high school, most recently known as Park Middle School, to Malcolm E. Nettingham Middle School, during a Veterans Day ceremony on Thursday, would have been beyond his imagination, according to his son, Malcolm V. Nettingham."
Vanderhoof, Tricia. "Mondays with authors: Gender identity focus of Amy Ellis Nutt's Becoming Nicole", Courier News, June 14, 2018. Accessed August 12, 2019. "Nutt was born in Staten Island and grew up in New Jersey, She has lived in Scotch Plains, Princeton, Cranbury, Bridgewater, Somerville and Watchung. She’s in Washington, D.C. now, but still keeps her 908-cell phone."
Campaniani, Jim. "UConn recruiting focus in-state, but not local", The Day, December 18, 1983. Accessed October 1, 2015. "A Scotch Plains, native and former all-east guard at Penn State, Jackson has a good feel for in-state talent."
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Flores, Raúl A. "For openers", San Antonio Express-News, September 11, 2009. Accessed July 21, 2011. "Audrey Assad Young new artist from Scotch Plains NJ weaves her melodic voice with keyboard acoustics and lyrics that explore faith through music."
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"F-D Literary Review Award To Louise Nicholl", The News, January 20, 1960. Accessed January 25, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "The Literary Review, an international quarterly published bv Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, announces the granting of a $300 Longview Literary Award to Louise Townsend Nicholl. The award is made to the New Jersey-born (Scotch Plains) poet for her poem, 'Plain Geometry,' published in the Autumn 1958 number of The Literary Review."
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Nathan Jones prospect profile, NFL.com. Accessed July 15, 2007. Academic All-American at Rutgers "Education major … Born June 15, 1982 … Resides in Scotch Plains, N.J."
"The College Club welcomes Alan Sepinwall on Oct. 23",Community Bulletin, September 17, 2017. Accessed December 25, 2022. "The College Club of Fanwood-Scotch Plains welcomes Scotch Plains resident Alan Sepinwall for the program at its Oct. 23 meeting. The title of his presentation is What's Alan Watching?."
Bernstein, Jason. "James Murphy of Scotch Plains is named Gatorade New Jersey Boys Soccer Player of the Year", The Star-Ledger, February 13, 2014. Accessed August 10, 2016. "On the soccer field Scotch Plains' James Murphy has the ability to anticipate just about anything that comes his ways. Despite an already lengthy list awards, he did not expect to be named the 2013–14 Gatorade New Jersey Boys Soccer Player of the Year."
Callahan, Michael; with Chmiel, David; Miller, Jen A.; and Weiss, Jennifer. "Best of Jersey", New Jersey Monthly, January 2007. Accessed May 18, 2007. "Composer Scotch Plains native Marc Shaiman, who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony (the latter for the score to the Broadway smash Hairspray), crafts melodies you hum long after you leave the theater."
Gulitti, Tom. "76ers owners Josh Harris, David Blitzer buy Devils", The Record, August 15, 2013. Accessed October 1, 2015. "'It's tough to parse words on that, honestly, because, A, we're brand new,' said Blitzer, a Scotch Plains native and senior managing director of Blackstone Group in New York."
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"Native Americans". Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
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Capuzzo, Jill P. "Where Commuters Can Spread Out", The New York Times, December 17, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2015. "Now home to around 23,500 residents, Scotch Plains saw a big increase in its population in the early 1900s when a large wave of Italians immigrated here, many from a small town in the Abruzzo region, Montazzoli."
Goldblatt, Jennifer. "Blume's Day", The New York Times, November 14, 2004. Accessed October 1, 2015. "It wasn't until after Ms. Blume had gotten her bachelor's degree in education from New York University in 1961, was married and raising her son, Larry, and her daughter, Randy, and living in Plainfield and later Scotch Plains, that she started to commit her stories and characters to paper, cramming writing sessions in while the children were at preschool and at play."
Cahillane, Kevin. "Not Fade Away: The Smithereens' Monument to Persistence", The New York Times, October 10, 2004. Accessed November 13, 2018. "The band formed in 1980 when three Carteret High School graduates (class of 1975) and childhood friends (Mr. Babjak, Dennis Diken on drums and Mike Mesaros on bass) met Pat DiNizio, a Scotch Plains singer-songwriter-garbage man."
Staff. "Baseball; Rookie Tips His Nervousness", The New York Times, June 26, 1993. Accessed May 4, 2007. "'I've never been that nervous before in my life,' said the 22-year-old center fielder, who played at Stanford and is from Scotch Plains, N.J. 'I would have swung at anything on that pitch. I'm just happy it dropped in. After that hit, it just carried on from there.'"
Staff. "Sports people; Nehemiah Wins One", The New York Times, November 10, 1982. Accessed August 30, 2012. "Frank Greenberg, secretary of the Middle Atlantic Athletic Congress, said after a hearing in Philadelphia that the 23-year-old Nehemiah wanted to remain an amateur so he could compete at Los Angeles. The native of Scotch Plains, N.J., holds the 110-yard hurdles record of 12.93 seconds."
Staff. "John Stamler, 51, Dies; New Jersey Prosecutor", The New York Times, March 27, 1990. Accessed December 31, 2017. "John H. Stamler, the Prosecutor in Union County, N.J., for 13 years, died of cancer on Sunday at his home in Scotch Plains, N.J. He was 51 years old."
Krebs, Albin. "Notes on People", The New York Times, January 26, 1978. Accessed December 18, 2011. "Enzo Stuarti, the nightclub and television singing star, and his wife of 30 years, Esther, were divorced in Elizabeth, N.J.... Mrs. Stuarti is to retain the family home in Scotch Plains, N.J."
Wilkes-Edrington, Lindsay. "School Board Candidates to State Their Cases Tonight", Scotch Plains-Fanwood, NJ Patch, April 6, 2019. Accessed May 27, 2020. "Scotch Plains-Fanwood has nine total Board of Education members, split geographically based on population – seven from Scotch Plains and two from Fanwood."
Dudley, William L. "Friendly Families: The Shotwells", The Story of the Friends in Plainfield Including A History of Early Quaker Families, Rahway & Plainfield Friends (Quaker) Meeting, March 29, 1929. Accessed May 22, 2013.
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Edge, Wally. "The State Senator who went to jail for being a pirate", PolitickerNJ, April 23, 2009. Accessed October 1, 2015. "During the energy shortage in the 1970's, former State Sen. Jerome Epstein (R-Scotch Plains) was sentenced to nine years in prison after a jury convicted him of pirating about $4 million worth of oil from Exxon tanks on the Arthur Kill in Linden."
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Brody, Millicent K. "Westfield art show a 'win-win' for artists and community"[dead link], Courier News, May 29, 2002. Accessed August 30, 2012. "Originally from Scotch Plains, and now a resident of Manhattan, banjo player and vocalist, Cynthia Sayer was accompanied by trio members Dan Levinson on clarinet and Mike Weatherly on bass, while a variety of musicians from the Westfield Community Band and the New Jersey Workshop for the Arts entertained throughout the day."
About Us, Scotch Plains Italian American Club. Accessed January 15, 2016. "Founded in 1906, the Scotch Plains Italian-American Club is a private non-profit organization Montazzolli, Italy originally established by Italian immigrants from the Abruzzi Region of Italy. Largely from the small village of Montazzoli, club members continue to maintain strong ties with its spirited heritage and old world family values characterized by hard work, love, family and a celebration of life."
Biography of Bob Menendez, United States Senate, January 26, 2015. "Menendez, who started his political career in Union City, moved in September from Paramus to one of Harrison's new apartment buildings near the town's PATH station.."
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Tradition, Shackamaxon Country Club. Accessed October 1, 2015. "He was shown the Lambert farm located just over the border of Westfield in Fanwood Township also known as Scotch Plains."
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About Us, Scotch Plains-Fanwood Public Schools. Accessed May 27, 2020. "Scotch Plains-Fanwood is a regional school district comprised of students in Grades Preschool-Grade12 from the Township of Scotch Plains and the Borough of Fanwood. The district has five elementary schools (Preschool-Grade 4), 2 middle schools (Grades 5-8), and one comprehensive high school (Grades 9-12)."
A Brief History of St. Bartholomew the Apostle Parish, St. Bartholomew the Apostle Parish. Accessed January 15, 2016. "A majority of families belonging to the parish in 1948 were a combination of first and second generation Italians, many of whom had migrated to Scotch Plains from Montazzoli, Italy."
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Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Scotch Plains-Fanwood Regional School District. Accessed May 27, 2020. "Purpose The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District. Composition The Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Scotch Plains Township and the Borough of Fanwood."
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Mooney, John. "Columbus Day Celebration: Mayor, Council Unveil Montazzoli Plaza in Scotch Plains", TAPIntoScotchPlainsFanwood, October 11, 2015. Accessed January 15, 2015. "For decades, Scotch Plains and the village of Montazzoli, Italy, have been sister cities as hundreds of immigrants left the Abruzzo region of Italy in search of a better life.... On Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Township's Columbus Day celebration, Mayor Kevin Glover announced the creation of Montazzoli Plaza, which will be located in front of the Italian American Club on Valley Ave."
Staff. "Newly Appointed Scotch Plains Councilwoman Suman Dahiya-Shah Resigns After Just Two Months on the Governing Body", TAP into Scotch Plains / Fanwood, March 21, 2021. Accesses April 11, 2022. "Scotch Plains Mayor Josh Losardo began the township council meeting on Tuesday, March 16, by announcing that Councilwoman Suman Dahiya-Shah, whom he appointed in January to fill his unexpired council term when he became mayor, has resigned. Losardo said that Councilwoman Dahiya-Shah said she submitted her resignation due to 'personal reasons' but did not elaborate further about why she resigned other than to say that she 'was unable to handle the responsibilities of the job.'"
Staff. "Scotch Plains Welcomes New Councilman Matt Adams", TAP into Scotch Plains / Fanwood, April 26, 2021. Accessed April 11, 2022. "Following the recommendation of the Scotch Plains Democratic Committee, the Township Council welcomed Matthew S. Adams to fill the unexpired term on the Township Council that became vacant when Josh Losardo became mayor and his initial replacement pick Suman Dahiya-Shah resigned."
Portantiere, Michael. "Opera and Musical Theater Star Jerome Hines Dies at 81", Theatermania.com, February 5, 2003. Accessed October 1, 2015. "A resident of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Hines appeared frequently at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn in recent years."
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O'Gorman, George. "Klimowicz, Hurley among New Jersey sportswriters' honorees", The Trentonian, January 4, 2010. Accessed October 1, 2015. "TCNJ's Division III national Player of the Year Hillary Klimowicz, who hails from Scotch Plains, will join legendary St. Anthony of Jersey City basketball coach Bob Hurley in the spotlight at the 74th annual N.J. Sports Writers Association dinner on Sunday Jan. 31 at Pines Manor on Route 27 in Edison starting at 11:30 a.m."
Goodman, Jeff. "Heralded recruit struggles with expectations", USA Today, November 16, 2005. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Caracter grew up in Scotch Plains (pop. 22,732, about 15 miles southwest of Newark) in a middle-class family."
Duggan, Lillian (October 28, 1999). "Stage House Inn Continues"(PDF). Our Towns: 2nd Annual Edition. pp. 12–13. Archived from the original(PDF) on February 7, 2015.
"Honoring Former High School Greats"Archived June 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Times of Scotch Plains-Fanwood, November 13, 1997. "Mayor Connelly presented a plaque to Mr. Scarpati, who lettered in football, basketball and track for the Raiders and served as the captain of the football team in 1959. Mr. Scarpati went on to play as a defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints professional football teams, and was the holder of the record-setting 63-yard (58 m) field goal kicked by Tom Dempsey in 1970 during the game between the Saints and the Detroit Lions."
Ware, David S. "David S. Ware"Archived October 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, JazzTimes, June 2003. Accessed August 9, 2011. "'Come on girls, we're going to put you in the magazine,' says David S. Ware, calling Bibi and Mikuro into the music room of his three-story house in Scotch Plains, N.J.... Ware drove taxis for 14 years in New York City, where he relocated in 1973 after growing up in Scotch Plains and later attending Boston's Berklee College of Music."