EAST ORANGE, NJ — Historical Society of East Orange President Goldie Burbage is asking anyone interested in seeing the Veterans Administration Hospital on Tremont Avenue become designated a historic site to take a bus on Thursday, July 20, from the East Orange Senior Citizens Center on Halsted Street to Trenton, to testify at the hearing […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor and members of East Orange City Council, including mayoral candidate Ted Green, welcomed the public to the East Orange Golf Course grand reopening ceremony and celebration, inside the new, state-of-the-art Par 440 fieldhouse on Friday, July 7, at the facility located just off highway Route 78, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The primary election proved more than just a practice run for candidates who will be running in the general election in November. Mamie Robinson, a registered Democrat, former city employee and longtime resident of East Orange’s 3rd Ward, was outside Langston Hughes Elementary School on Rhode Island Avenue, down the street […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Help Jamaica Medical Mission donated gowns to three young ladies and professional cosmetic makeup services to three others attending their senior prom at the Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts Class of 2017 on Friday, June 2. Help JaMM is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in East Orange that […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor observed National Gun Violence Awareness Day on Friday, June 2, by honoring two school resource officers who managed to peacefully defuse a potentially deadly situation involving an armed suspect in the vicinity of a public school last year. School Resource Officers Segundo Marquez and Christopher Kyer […]
Mayors want better equity, communication from NJT
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — After weeks of being sidelined, municipal officials from several towns finally met with NJ Transit representatives June 7 to discuss the burden local communities will shoulder this summer as the Morris & Essex Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station are diverted to Hoboken. The diversion will last for approximately eight weeks […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Public Safety Department put a new spin on the saying “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” on Thursday, May 18, when firefighters from the Fire Division responded to a call of smoke coming from the garage in the backyard of a private home on Springdale Avenue and stumbled onto […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — At the March 13 East Orange City Council meeting, Mayor Lester Taylor introduced his $140 million budget for Calendar Year 2017, which contained a tax decrease, Taylor’s first as mayor. According to administration officials, the last time the city had a budget introduced containing a tax decrease was 2006. Taylor said […]
ORANGE/EAST ORANGE, NJ — The threat of a nor’easter, Winter Storm Stella, that was expected to dump between 10 and 18 inches of snow on New Jersey had officials in Orange and East Orange scrambling to make last-minute preparations for snow removal, street plowing and salting, and other essential emergency services. “Due to inclement weather […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — When East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor announced he would not be running for re-election to a second term Thursday, Feb. 2, he also promised he would not be a “lame duck,” content to ride out his last few months in office before voters choose his successor in the Democratic primary election […]