By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — Mayor Tony Vauss and Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers were set to unveil their 2019 Summer Crime Plan at a press conference outside the Municipal Building in D. Bilal Beasley Square on Wednesday, July 17, which occurred after press time. “Every year, the plan is updated to reflect the current circumstances in […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington Board of Education President Romaine Graham has been appointed to fill the seat left vacant on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders by former Freeholder Lebby Jones, who died of cancer Wednesday, Jan. 9. “Romaine was elected today replacing one of the icons of this township, Lebby Jones, who also […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange City Clerk’s Office is expecting a big turnout for nominating petitions this year. “Folks started picking up petitions early January,” said East Orange city clerk Cynthia Brown on Monday, Feb. 18. “Setting the stage for 2020 is a political question, one I can’t answer. There will be a […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Former Essex County Freeholder Carol Clark has joined forces with former code enforcement director Dwight Saunders to run for two countywide elected positions in the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday, June 4. Both formerly served as council members. Clark intends to run for the office of county registrar and Saunders will […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
ORANGE, NJ — Black History Month was kicked off in Park Avenue Elementary School’s Auditorium in Orange with a Black Lives Matter assembly Monday, Feb. 4. “I’m very moved that we’re coming together for a very positive cause, making our students aware of what’s going on in their community and how they can make a […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON, ORANGE
ESSEX, NJ — Members of the “Essex 5” local civil rights and social and economic justice advocacy groups were honored by Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. on Friday, Feb. 15, at the 16th annual Essex County Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Awards ceremony in the Leroy F. Smith Public Safety Building. […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green will host his second State of the City Address on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. in the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts. Last year, Green’s first State of the City Address focused on his administration’s planned efforts to improve economic redevelopment, […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s comments about the NJ Advance Media “Force Report” — the result of the media outlet’s five-year study on the use of force by New Jersey police — on Saturday, Feb. 2, during the panel discussion at the community meeting of the Church of the Oranges Community on […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — When the new Planet Fitness in the Valley Plaza Mall had its grand opening and ribbon-cutting on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the site of the former Valley Fair shopping center on Chancellor Avenue, Mayor Tony Vauss and Genia Philip, the township’s director of Economic Development and Grants Oversight, were in attendance, as […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green, Public Safety Director Dominick Saldida and police Chief Phyllis Bindi hosted a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 5, to announce the city’s new crime statistics. The press conference was the first one without Public Safety liaison Jose Cordero, who Green hired last year […]