ORANGE, NJ — Ebenezer Baptist Church in Orange topped off its weeklong revival event by hosting its Men’s Ministry Prayer Breakfast at the church on Saturday, Sept. 10. The spirit of Irvington was in the air at the event in the persons of East Ward Joint Block Association Vice President Glenn Gamble and the Rev. […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange Housing Authority hosted its sixth annual Youth Scholarship Golf Tournament under sunny skies on Monday, Sept. 12, at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park and, according to OHA Executive Director Walter McNeil, this year’s event was the biggest and best yet. “We are having our sixth annual Golf Scholarship […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The city of East Orange and the East Orange City Council joined forces with the Islamic community to host an Eid al-Adha celebration in Elmwood Park on Monday, Sept. 12. “Eid is the first holiday of the Muslims,” said Imam Abdul Aziz of Masjid As-Haabul Yaamen mosque, located on 4th Avenue […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The hunt for accused terrorist Ahmad Khan Rahami, the main suspect in the bomb attacks in Seaside Park on Saturday, Sept. 17, and the Chelsea section of New York City on Sunday, Sept. 18, that culminated in Elizabeth and Linden on Sunday, Sept. 18, and Monday, Sept. 19, with his eventual capture, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Mayor Tony Vauss, Municipal Council President David Lyons and the Irvington Chamber of Commerce will unveil 14 new commemorative banners honoring individual township veterans during a special ceremony on Friday, Sept. 23, at 9 a.m. in Veterans Memorial Park on Springfield Avenue, near the site of the old Servicemen’s Clubhouse. The banners […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — On Monday, Aug. 8, Mayor Tony Vauss announced Irvington’s new partnership with Pillar College and its Life Enhancement Accelerated Degree Program, to offer adult accelerated degree programs to residents and township employees. Board of Education President Romaine Greer said she plans to take advantage of the program; otherwise, she said, she would make […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Fresh from their trip to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden for the HollyRod Foundation’s sensory-friendly autism event, Nadine Wright-Arbubakrr and the Nassan’s Place Board of Directors hosted their first Community Appreciation Gala at the Chateau of Spain restaurant in Newark on Thursday, Sept. 8. Billed as “An Evening of Inspiration and […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — When Grove Street Elementary School opened its doors to begin the new public school year Thursday, Sept. 8, there was a doctor in the house; the school’s library media specialist, October Hudley, recently earned her doctorate degree in education technology from New Jersey City University. “It’s an important day in history; the […]
ORANGE, NJ — When Orange Preparatory Academy Co-Principal Andrea Dooley-Malloy asked Reggie Miller, director of the school’s Male Student Support Program, to send out a text message blast asking men to turn out for the first day of school, she had no idea what kind of response they’d get. To her delight, and […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Rev. Ronald B. Christian of Christian Love Baptist Church was serving as a chaplain for the Essex County Sheriff’s Department when he died unexpectedly in October 2015; however, his spirit of public safety and service was on display at the church’s 15th annual Sept. 11 Remembrance Service on Wednesday, Sept. 7. […]