EAST ORANGE, NJ — Naima Hall, who serves the Passion for Purpose nonprofit group and My Brother’s Keeper in East Orange, organized a seminar on gangs and gang culture and how to combat it Thursday, June 15, at the Fellowship Civic Center. Detective John Marcelli of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force was […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Four years ago, then-Mayor Wayne Smith noted the annual “summer spike” in crime that urban municipalities such as Irvington experience, once the weather gets warm and public schools close for summer break. At that time, the town had one of the worst homicide rates ever, one which reached a tragic climax with […]
ORANGE, NJ — The English language arts department of Orange’s public schools hosted an annual Literacy Block Party at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School on Friday, June 2 that featured games, giveaways, puppets and more, with the theme “Every hero has a story.” Students who attended the event participated in a variety of literacy activities and […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The old Servicemen’s Clubhouse on Springfield Avenue across from Civic Square is gone. The clubhouse, which had been used as recently as Memorial Day on Monday, May 29, has been demolished to make way for the new Taco Bell restaurant that a developer paid the township $800,000 for permission to build, according […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The Historical Society of East Orange honored local hip-hop music heroes Naughty By Nature and others at its annual Lawn Party at Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts on Sunday, June 11. But the most relevant tribute might have come from the members of the Young People for […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The People’s Organization for Progress hosted a Reparations March and Rally in downtown Newark on Saturday, June 24, which saw U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. showing his solidarity for the cause as he made an announcement of his own. Payne pledged to become a co-sponsor of HR 40, the Commission to Study […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad, who gained international fame in the role of Claire Huxtable on the NBC-TV program “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s, was the featured guest speaker at the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts commencement exercises for the graduating Class of 2017 at the school […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — It started to rain during the East Orange Campus High School graduation ceremony at Paul Robeson Stadium on Friday, June 23, but the members of the Class of 2017 said they weren’t about to let a little wet weather put a damper on their big moment, the crowning point of their […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School’s 138th commencement ceremony was held at Newark Symphony Hall in downtown Newark on Wednesday, June 21. Oluchukwu Ibe was the Class of 2017 valedictorian and Ashley Reid was the salutatorian. James G. Petrucci, the founder and president of J.G. Petrucci Company Inc., was the guest speaker and, even though […]
ORANGE, NJ — At the commencement ceremony for Orange High School and the Career Innovation Academy of Orange’s Class of 2017 in the Essex County College Gymnasium in downtown Newark on Friday, June 23, Mishell Quispe was the valedictorian and Silas Bond the salutatorian. Mayor Dwayne Warren and Orange Board of Education President E. Lydell […]