MKA students wins 2017 Congressional App Challenge in 10th District

MONTCLAIR, NJ — U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr., NJ-10, announced the winner of the 2017 Congressional App Challenge for high school students in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District. Zoe Lynch of Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair was named the winner for her charitable services app GiveGetNJ. GiveGetNJ pairs people in need with charitable organizations […]

Our churches are reaching out to comfort the needy

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Like followers of good King Wenceslas, a 10th-century Bohemian monarch known for his helping a peasant, congregants in Bloomfield houses of worship are tending to the needy this holiday season, too. But Pastor Diana Wilcox, of Christ Episcopal Church of Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, said there is more meaning to the Wenceslas story […]

East Orange Campus HS boys’ indoor track and field team captures SEC-American Division meet title for third year in a row

EAST ORANGE, NJ (updated Saturday Dec. 30, 9:28 a.m.) Akeem Lindo won three individual events to help the East Orange Campus High School boys’ indoor track and field team to the team title for the third year in a row at the 9th Annual Super Essex Conference-American Division Championship meet held at the Ocean Breeze […]

Columbia HS girls’ indoor track and field team captures SEC-American Division meet title for the eighth time in nine years

The Columbia High School girls’ indoor track and field team returned to the top of the Super Essex Conference-American Division Championship meet. The Lady Cougars won the team title at the ninth annual meet on Saturday, Dec. 23, at the Ocean Breeze Complex in Staten Island. The team won the meet title in each of […]

Creating a TBA Early School family quilt … one unique square at a time

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Students and their family members of The Early School of Temple B’nai Abraham participated in creating a family quilt at a festive evening event at temple. Each school family received a material square a week before the special night. The instructions were to create a square that represents their family with their […]

Irvington well-represented at EO public safety meeting

IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington Township was well-represented at East Orange Mayor-elect Ted Green’s Public Safety Meeting inside the Langston Hughes Elementary School Auditorium in East Orange on Tuesday, Dec. 12, thanks to the participation of Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers and Deputy Public Safety Director John Brown. Both Bowers and Brown are part of the […]