The People’s Motorcade, comprised of activists angered at President Donald Trump and his agenda, greeted the president at his private golf course and club, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, on Saturday, July 6, 2019.
The first time Trump had been back to the club that year, he was there for a summer retreat over the holiday weekend after presiding over an Independence Day celebration in Washington, D.C.
Here’s a look at events that happened in Central Jersey from five, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago this week.
Five years ago
July 1, 2019: Kevin Hughes, 49, of North Plainfield, the former South Plainfield recreation director who resigned earlier that year, pleaded guilty to one count of theft by unlawful taking, admitting to stealing more than $80,000 from the department.
July 2: It was reported Joel Mercado, 38, of Lyndhurst, a former senior corrections officer at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, was sentenced on Friday, June 28, 2019, to three years in state prison for engaging in sexual relations with two inmates.
July 5: An appellate court overturned a state Department of Education ruling that the parents of a second grader, identified only by their initials and first names of Tom and Mary, had to pay $38,329 to reimburse the Bridgewater-Raritan School District for a year’s tuition because the district believed the student did not live in the district.
July 7: In the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey’s look at U.S. Census data to find the 50th wealthiest towns in N ew Jerseh and ranked by median household income, Montgomery ranked 7 and Tewksbury was 19.
July 7: At the FIFA Women’s World Cup final, the U.S. Women’s National Team beat the Netherlands, 2-0. New Jersey natives Tobin Heath and Caril Lloyd helped the team successfully defend its title in the event.
July 7: It was reported singer-songwriter Gloria Gaynor was selling her Green Brook home on Fairway Drive. Built in 1988, the home was listed for sale at $1,395,000.
10 years ago
July 1, 2014: Jonathan R. Parham, a Linden police officer for nearly 16 years, became Linden’s first Black officer to reach the rank of captain; and Nancy E. Petroski, a 22-year police veteran, became the first woman in the department to reach the rank of lieutenant.
July 1: Approximately 200 gathered at Rutgers University in New Brunswick to mourn three murdered Israeli teens ― Eyal Yifrah, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 ― all missing since Thursday, June 12, 2014, who were found dead on Monday, June 30, 2014.
July 1: In a World Cup soccer game, goalkeeper Tim Howard of North Brunswick, had 16 saves ― the most in a World Cup in a half century. The U.S. lost to Belgium, however, 2-1.
July 2: Martha Stewart, plugging her new self-help book for people older than 40, “Living the Good Long Life,” addressed a sold-out crowd of 500 people at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s Health Fair 2014 in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, it was reported.
July 4: It was reported the families of 11 Manville residents who died from asbestos-related cancer were awarded $90.5 million that week for their pain and suffering. The families had sued two foreign companies, Anova Holding and Becon, which had sold asbestos to Johns-Manville in Manville.
1999
July 1, 1999: The Piscataway Township Council recognized the following residents for their courage in helping to rescue people from a burning plane on Sunday, May 30, 1999: Thomas and Frank Uhrin, Carol Pennyfeather, Christian Happel, David Peters, Kenneth Burns Sr., Robert Bertelli, Bruce Plath, Hedwig Alberto, David Norton, Edward Rose and Walter Kramer Jr.
July 3: Manville celebrated its 70th anniversary by unveiling the first borough flag, made by Duane Potasky, during a ceremony at Borough Hall in Manville.
July 3-4: The 16th Raritan River Festival, featuring music, food, classic car and motorcycle shows, was held at Boyd Park in New Brunswick and Donaldson Park in Highland Park.
July 4: Milton Kalafer, 83, father of Somerset Patriots owners Steven and Michael Kalafer, died at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
July 7: The Immaculata American Legion baseball team won their third-straight Somerset/Warren American Legion game, 6-4, over first-place Hillsborough at Hillsborough High School.
July 7: A jury acquitted Allan Franklin, 37, of capital murder in the killing of Isiac Warmack, 64, a friend of Franklin’s wife Annie, in her Carteret bedroom, instead finding him guilty of a crime of passion, a lesser manslaughter charge.
1974
July 4: “Arms and the Man,” a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, opened at Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus.
July 5: Eight houses in East Brunswick were struck by lightning. There were also a half a dozen flooding incidents in the township.
July 5: Larry Smith, 19, of Glen Rock, Pa., won the men’s division of the Eastern Archery Association championships in Piscataway.
July 6: Bridgewater police said a 15,000-gallon spill of heating oil, which occurred on Friday, July 5, 1974, had been contained in Sunset Lake and did not threaten Elizabethtown Water Co. water supplies, it was reported.
1924
July 2: It was reported Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant secretary of the Navy, would visit Perth Amboy on Saturday, July 5, 1924, as the official representative of the Navy Department to receive the U.S.S. Newton from Sen. Walter E. Edge.
July 4: A large delegation Middlesex County Ku Klux Klansmen were among the 4,000 hooded men and women who marched on Monmouth County soil to celebrate the 148th birthday of American independence in the name of “religious and political freedom.”
July 4-5: The movie, “The Broken Wing,” starring Kenneth Harlan, Miriam Cooper and Walter Long, was shown at Reade’s Plainfield Theatre.
July 5: Danny Williams, of Plainfield, who was assistant golf pro at Shackamaxon Country Club in Scotch Plains, broke the course record at Shackamaxon, with a 65. The previous mark was 66 by Bob Cruickshank, the head pro at the Westfield club.
Brad Wadlow is a staff writer for MyCentralJersey.com
This article originally appeared on MyCentralJersey.com: NJ history for July 1-7
