Look Up! 2 Meteor Showers Are Peaking Over NJ Skies: Patch PM

Good evening, North Jersey Patch readers! Here are some of the share-worthy stories from our area for today.

Here are the top five stories from North Jersey:

1. If you've been longing since spring for meteor showers, you're about to be rewarded as the rambling Delta Aquariid meteor shower is underway. (Read more on Patch)
2. An employee at a South Jersey UPS facility called his participation in the riots in the nation's Capitol on Jan. 6, "the best day of his life," according to the federal Department of Justice. That man has been arrested for his actions that day. (Read more on Patch)
3. A kitten who traveled from Plainsboro to Princeton University campus was rescued on Friday afternoon, officials said. Princeton University Department of Public Safety got a call from a Honda Civic owner who said their car was "meowing."(Read more on Patch)
4. Emergency workers apparently saved a child who ended up under a pier in the Hudson River in Hoboken after he went to retrieve a ball on Friday afternoon, according to social media posts. (Read more on Patch)
5. The Monmouth County SPCA's Humane Law Enforcement Division recused a dog and her puppies from a house on Dewitt and Springwood Avenue in Asbury Park on Monday. (Read more on Patch)

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