The Shoppes at Lafayette

Experience the ultimate Italian Festival featuring food trucks, vendor booths, an Italian car display, and a wine &amp; cocktail garden. This family-friendly event offers free admission and includes live performances, a cannoli eating contest, a kids craft tent, and interactive photo ops, with proceeds benefiting the Sparta Unico Foundation.

Local Event: Viva Italia Festival Sparta UNICO 

Sussex County

Hopatcong-Sparta

New Jersey

Viva Italia Festival Sparta UNICO 

Experience the ultimate Italian Festival featuring food trucks, vendor booths, an Italian car display, and a wine & cocktail...

American Legion Post 278

Join the Armed Forces Relief Committee for an exciting evening of casino games, amazing prizes, and a hot buffet to benefit local veterans and our military. Tickets are $75 per person and include game chips, a hot buffet, and soft drinks, with a cash bar also available. Win some FABULOUS prizes, play a little poker, craps, or maybe some black jack, and win some fabulous prizes, all to benefit our Veterans.&nbsp; &nbsp;Please note this is an over-21 event with limited seating and advance ticket sales only.&nbsp; Order your tickets right on line and join us for this great event!

Local Event: Annual Bets For Our Vets Casino Night

Annual Bets For Our Vets Casino Night

Join the Armed Forces Relief Committee for an exciting evening of casino games, amazing prizes, and a hot buffet to benefit...

An Essex County home inspector has built a free website that lets anyone look up the public records behind a New Jersey property &mdash; building permits, flood zones, fire history, property taxes, and more &mdash; by typing in an address.
The site, Permit &amp; Parcel (oprasearch.app), covers all 564 New Jersey municipalities and pulls only from official sources: state and county databases, FEMA flood maps, and the towns' own municipal codes. There's no account, no email capture, and no cost.
"I kept watching buyers fall in love with a house before anyone checked the paper trail &mdash; the open permits, the flood zone, what the town actually requires when a home changes hands," said Leo Betancor, a Certified Master Inspector based in Cedar Grove and the founder of the site. "All of that is public record. It just wasn't in one place anyone could actually use."
Alongside the main lookup, the site includes free single-purpose tools: a lead-safe inspection lookup showing which of the two state-required inspection methods each town uses under New Jersey's lead paint law, a searchable directory of every DCA-certified lead evaluation and abatement contractor sorted by distance, a fire-incident map built from more than 40 years of state fire records, and a radon map covering every municipality.
A companion site, njflood.zone, gives instant FEMA flood-zone answers for any New Jersey address &mdash; built after the federal government shutdown left FEMA's own map site unreliable &mdash; running on the site's own servers with the complete flood map data for the state loaded locally.
The project was recently featured in <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/east-hanover-slash-florham-park/columns/at-home-with-holly/articles/deep-dive-conversations-what-the-house-won-t-tell-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">TAPinto</a>'s "At Home with Holly" column. Both sites are free at <a href="https://oprasearch.app" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">oprasearch.app</a> and <a href="https://njflood.zone" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">njflood.zone</a>.

Essex County

Eric Kiefer

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Cedar Grove Home Inspector Builds Free Property...

An Essex County home inspector has built a free website that lets anyone look up the public records behind a New Jersey property — building permits...

Cedar Grove Home Inspector Builds Free Property-Records Lookup for Every NJ Town

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