IRVINGTON, NJ — West Ward Councilman Vern Cox is on a mission to clean up the city’s nightlife and social scene by closing down some of the strip bars and clubs that seem to have become magnets for crime, drugs, violence, and he’s using the Alcoholic Beverage Control bureau to do it. According to township […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Omar Bilal and the Friends of Irvington Park joined forces with Imam Wahy-ud Deen Shareef of the Warith-uhd Deen mosque in Newark, the Embrace Relief nonprofit organization and volunteers from the Edep Academy Home School and After School Program to host a food giveaway at the D. Bilal Community Center in Irvington […]
ORANGE, NJ — Lucy Diura and the Orange Italian American Organization hosted the 16th annual Italian American Street Festival in the city’s Little Italy section, located at and around the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Mechanic Street in the West Ward, on Saturday, Sept. 9, and Sunday, Sept. 10. “We have our 16th annual Italian […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington Housing Authority’s Labor Day Holiday Weekend Community Cookout took place at both the Crescent Lane apartment complex and the senior citizens apartments in 624 Nye Ave. On the one hand, Delores Calloway, Will Harden and other Crescent Lane and 624 Nye Ave. residents had been complaining loudly about substandard living conditions […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Wednesday, Sept. 6, was the first day back on the job for Irvington Police Division Capt. Monique Smith, after she was cleared of all criminal charges related to an off-duty incident involving Newark Councilman John Sharpe James in 2014, son of the former Newark mayor. According to Smith’s attorney, Steven Altman, on […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The members of the Committee on the Status of Men in East Orange were in front of Robert Bowser Elementary School on Thursday, Sept. 7, to welcome students and parents back to school on the first day of class, and they were also at the 9/11 Interfaith Call for Peace Community […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington Fire Department held its own impromptu 9/11 Memorial Tribute outside its Civic Square headquarters Monday, Sept. 11, marking the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and an empty field in Pennsylvania where an aborted attempt on […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The city of East Orange and the City Council observed the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the foiled attempt on the nation’s capital that ended in an field in Pennsylvania by holding an Interfaith Call […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — As the 2017-2018 school year began Thursday, Sept. 7, Mayor Tony Vauss and Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers celebrated the success of the Summer Policing Plan, which had resulted in no homicides in town from the end of school in June until Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 4. Since Vauss became mayor […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange City Council unanimously voted to approve a proclamation supporting the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — enacted by former President Barack Obama by executive order in 2012 — and condemning President Donald Trump for rescinding the program and leaving it up to the U.S. Congress to resolve […]