IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee will host its 33rd annual “Legacy of a Dream Commemorative Tribute to the Life and Work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” in the Irvington High School Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 13. “Doors open at noon,” said Omar Bilal Beasley on Tuesday, […]
ORANGE/EAST ORANGE, NJ — On Monday, Jan. 8, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the current administration will be putting an end to the Temporary Protected Status humanitarian program almost 200,000 refugees from the Central American country of El Salvador had been using to legally live and work in the United States since […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers confirmed that Renee Burgess, the Irvington Municipal Council vice president, has filed a formal complaint against Elouise McDaniel, president of the Irvington Joint and and Nesbit Terrace block associations, with the Irvington Police Division, as a result of her alleged behavior and comments at the council’s Tuesday, […]
Photo by Chris Sykes From left, Mark Smith, the co-founder of the non-profit charity organization Joi’s Angels, along with his wife and the organization’s namesake, Joi, stands with a security officer and a volunteer on Saturday, Dec. 16, during the organization’s Christmas Carnival and annual Holiday Party inside the Essex County College gymnasium on West […]
Photo by Chris Sykes Tony, one of the mourners at the Janazah, at the Funeraria Americas funeral home on Roseville Avenue in Newark on New Year’s Day, Monday, Jan. 1, holds up a program bearing the picture of Earl Williams. The ceremony was for Williams, the father of motorist Earl Faison, who was wrongly arrested […]
ORANGE, NJ — Newark native and Orange resident Ralph Bright and his wife, Sally, were just two of the dozens of local senior citizens who took part in Mayor Dwayne Warren’s annual Senior Christmas Holiday Party at Bella Italia restaurant Thursday, Dec. 14. “The Fountain of Youth is in Newark, down at the South Ward,” […]
Photo by Chris Sykes Township clerk Harold Wiener, left, watches as, from left, at large Councilwoman October Hudley, Council Vice President and at large Councilwoman Renee Burgess, at large Councilwoman Charnette Frederic and Mayor Tony Vauss pick up nominating petition candidate’s packets from his office on Tuesday, Jan. 2, the first day it became available […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington Municipal Council voted 6-1 in favor of Resolution MC17-1227-58 at its Wednesday, Dec. 27 meeting, authorizing the governing body to take action against East Ward Councilman Paul Inman because of remarks he had allegedly made in taped conversations with former township employee Tamara Smith. Smith, who had secretly recorded the […]
Photo by Chris Sykes East Orange Mayor Ted Green, right, symbolically removes his suit jacket and rolls up his sleeves as he promises to get to work promoting progress on all his constituents behalf during his Inauguration speech on New Year’s Day, Monday, Jan. 1, after he was officially sworn in as the city’s 14th […]
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 […]