SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Board of Trustees approved a change order for the renovation project at the Baird Community Center at its Aug. 9 meeting, adding another $189,970.49 to the total project cost with a 5-0 vote; Trustee Summer Jones was absent. The building has been closed since 2018 while a complete […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Board of Education discussed the full-time return to in-person classes at its Aug. 24 meeting, as the Bloomfield School District prepares to reopen to all students every day for full days of school for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. The first day of school […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange is locked in a lawsuit with Prism Capital Partners, the redevelopers of the downtown Edison Village project, after the West Orange Township Council voted to reacquire the property and terminated the development deal that was approved nearly 20 years ago, in 2003. The first phase of the project has […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Michael Mankowich spent a week in August trekking across the Alaskan wilderness. The Nutley resident flew to Homer, Alaska, to start a six-day hike along the Kenai Peninsula to raise money and awareness for multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that forms in white blood cells. Mankowich has the disease himself, and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council unanimously approved a contract with KemperSports, the golf course management company that has run the Rock Spring Golf Course since the township bought the course in 2019, to continue to run the course for the next five years at its Aug. 17 meeting. The company was […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Recreation Department wrapped up a summer of camps, sports clinics and outdoor movies last week, and is now preparing for a slate of fall activities around town. More than 700 children signed up for camp and 375 for sports clinics this summer, which were spread out around different locations in […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Indian Independence Day was once again celebrated in West Orange, with residents and elected officials breaking in a new flagpole to raise the Indian flag on Aug. 16. The town wasn’t able to hold the flag-raising event last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was only the third time residents […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood’s Memorial Park wasn’t empty as the sun rose on Aug. 13, with residents rolling out their yoga mats for an early-morning session hosted by East Orange–based homeless shelter Isaiah House, followed by a morning dance party. Proceeds from the fundraiser went to both the shelter and the family of Moussa Fofana, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Township Council unanimously approved an ordinance permitting cannabis retail establishments in town at its Aug. 16 meeting, a move that comes after New Jersey voters approved a ballot measure that legalized the sale of cannabis in November 2020. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation on Feb. 22, and municipalities in […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Borough Council unanimously approved an ordinance to use $150,000 in grant funding from the Essex County Open Space and Recreation Trust Fund to resurface the track at Hurrell Field at its Aug. 9 meeting. The project, which has already been finished, cost a total of $174,000; the remaining […]