NUTLEY, NJ — Like all libraries, when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the country in March 2020 and forced shutdowns of nonessential businesses, the Nutley Public Library had to completely shift how it operated. A year later, things are slowly getting back to normal: Residents can browse the stacks in person a few days […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Members of the Bloomfield Township Council and Essex County Board of County Commissioners held a meeting about the proposed Essex–Hudson Greenway project on April 14, updating residents about the 9-mile park that could run through Essex and Hudson counties. The park would be built on an unused freight train rail line owned […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation’s Youth Advisory Board has been working throughout the pandemic, just as diligently as it had been before COVID-19 forced meetings to move online. The high school–led team of students received the Traffic Officers Association of Essex County’s Timothy Larney Memorial Traffic Safety Education & Enforcement Award, and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council unanimously voted against settling a lawsuit with township resident Kevin Malanga at its April 6 meeting, rejecting an agreement that would have seen the town purchase 12 acres of open space on Ridge Road in addition to the carriage house several properties over. Malanga sued West […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Township Council unanimously passed an ordinance at its April 12 meeting that will ban commercial cannabis businesses from operating in the borough; this decision was made within the 180-day time frame that local municipalities had to make this decision, following Gov. Phil Murphy signing the marijuana legalization law […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — For the first few months of 2021, all eight Ivy League colleges had campus newsrooms led by women. Until March, when annual elections at Dartmouth College’s The Dartmouth changed the newspaper’s leadership, it was the second time ever that all eight schools had women in the top editorial position; […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Almost four months into his tenure as the administrator at St. Valentine Church in Bloomfield, the Rev. Andrew Onyemaobi is already working on big plans for the future. His current project is relaunching the religious education program, which was shuttered when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything that required people to gather […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge had to eliminate the bake sale part of its annual “Rake and Bake” at Freeman Gardens this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but neighbors were still able to rake. The garden cleanup on Hawthorne Avenue drew residents out to weed, dig and plant in the first community cleanup […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Mayor Robert Parisi began discussions about subdividing a portion of the Rock Spring Golf Club and setting it aside for development with the West Orange Township Council at a workshop meeting on April 5, presenting preliminary plans for a complex with housing and a parking garage. The town bought the 138-acre […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — South Orange–Maplewood School District Superintendent Ronald Taylor announced the plan for the next two phases of the district’s reopening plan, as the district gets ready to continue with the third phase of hybrid instruction. Students in kindergarten through second grade, and in sixth and ninth grades have returned to […]