IRVINGTON, NJ — Former Irvington Police Chief Chief Michael Chase said he has collected all but one of the paychecks the Irvington Police Department said he was paid last year. Chase’s attorney, Joseph Donahue, said his client has received four checks from the state Civil Service Commission that the township owed him, but the former […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange Democratic Municipal Committee held its annual breakfast fundraiser at the Orange Elks Lodge 135 on Saturday, March 18, and although featured guest speaker gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy was unable to attend, those who did come more than filled in for him. “I stay in trouble in Trenton because I am […]
NEWARK, NJ — In his third annual State of the City Address at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 20, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka mentioned the township of Irvington and the planned redevelopment of the old Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery site at the intersection of South Orange Avenue and Grove Street, which […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The deadline for prospective candidates for mayor or the five open ward seats to turn in nominating petitions is Friday, March 31, at 4 p.m. Petitions must be turned in at the office of East Orange city clerk Cynthia Brown in City Hall. Petitions have been available since Jan. 1. The […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Former Irvington Police Chief Michael Chase alleges that the township of Irvington still owes him money, although the Irvington Department of Revenue and Finance has sent him copies of the four checks totaling $26,233.12. Check copies were also forwarded to the Irvington Herald, but Chase and the state Civil Service Commission said […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — On Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, attorney Sheila Ellington, hired by the town to serve as the hearing officer in former police Chief Michael Chase’s first disciplinary hearing case, issued a 32-page decision that found him guilty of violating the state Attorney General Guidelines for the Operation of Police Departments, which Joseph Santiago, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The state Department of Community Affairs Local Finance Board recently cleared Irvington Municipal Council Vice President Renee Burgess and the other council members of any wrongdoing regarding an ethics complaint filed against them last year by Elouise McDaniel, president of the Irvington Joint Block Association and Nesbitt Terrace Block Association. The governing […]
ORANGE, NJ — According to Orange city clerk Joyce Lanier, although the first attempt for a special election on Tuesday, March 14, was snowed out, 19 candidates are still vying for the two available seats on the Orange Board of Education. They will get their chance at the rescheduled special election on Tuesday, March 28, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The city of East Orange and the Recreation Department, under the supervision of Director Osner Charles, screened the critically acclaimed documentary “Searching for Shaniqua,” produced and directed by Essex County native Phil Branch, at the Cicely Tyson Performing and Fine Arts Theater on Friday, March. 10. According to Charles, the film […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — At the March 13 East Orange City Council meeting, Mayor Lester Taylor introduced his $140 million budget for Calendar Year 2017, which contained a tax decrease, Taylor’s first as mayor. According to administration officials, the last time the city had a budget introduced containing a tax decrease was 2006. Taylor said […]