ORANGE, NJ — The contaminated water supply of the city of Flint, Mich., was on the minds of Orange residents attending the Orange City Council meeting Monday, Feb. 22, to learn more about the pending deal between Mayor Dwayne Warren’s administration and the Pennoni water management company. According to Warren and Todd Hay, the Pennoni […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Although Feb. 29 was the filing deadline to turn in nominating petitions for the April 19 Irvington Board of Education election, the three candidates backed by the Team Irvington Strong social and political organization were the only ones to file for the three open seats. “There were no new petitions submitted to […]
ORANGE, NJ — Former first-year Forest Street School third-grade teacher Marylin Zuniga, who was fired from her job in the Orange Public School District for having her students write get-well cards to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal, is scheduled to speak to the members of the People’s Organization for Progress on Thursday, March 3, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Mayor Tony Vauss used his annual State of the Township Address at Christian Pentecostal Church on Clinton Avenue on Thursday, Jan. 28, as a platform to announce Irvington’s new partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Vauss introduced Brad Cohen, the special agent in charge and assistant director of the […]
ORANGE, NJ — Superior Court Judge Christine Farrington ruled Thursday, Feb. 18, that former Orange Deputy Business Administrator Willis Edwards must repay the city of Orange Township the $268,750 he earned while working illegally as a city employee with that job title. Farrington’s ruling should bring an end to the legal saga of […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Dozens of members of the East Orange Police Department appeared to have contracted a case of the blue flu, causing them to call out sick from work Friday, Feb. 19. According to sources in the East Orange Police Department that preferred to remain anonymous due to the fact the department’s unions […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Mayor Tony Vauss graded the township’s recent response to the record-breaking snowstorm on Saturday, Jan. 23, as a “B.” Vauss also said that “B” stood for “better than the recent past,” but not as good as it will soon be. He said the improved public response to bad weather, accidents, […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — The honorees at the Essex County Democratic Committee’s annual Labor Breakfast, hosted on Friday, Feb. 19, at Nanina’s in the Park restaurant in Branch Brook Park in Belleville, were: Susan M. Cleary, the president of District 1199J, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Peter Growing, the council representative of Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters; Mark […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Elected officials stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the steps of City Hall in East Orange on Thursday, Feb. 4, along with HANDS Inc.; New Jersey Communities United, a home mortgage and housing advocacy group; Valley Arts Executive Director Patrick Morrissy, and some of the city’s struggling homeowners, to demand that banks holding local mortgages […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The Historical Society of East Orange kicked off Black History Month by rolling out its traveling tribute to local history, which was on display in the lobby of City Hall for the first week of February. “We are once again putting on display our traveling program, with regard to individuals who have […]