NUTLEY – The Nutley High School varsity softball team will participate in the NJ Pride/Essex County High School Softball Challenge on April 16 at Ivy Hill Park in Newark. Entrance and parking are available at Seton Hall University. Admission is charged. Schedule West Essex vs. Bridgewater-Raritan, 11 a.m. Newark Academy vs. Raritan, 1 p.m. Mount […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Literature Department of the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge has announced that Elisabeth Egan, author of “A Window Opens,” will be the guest speaker on Tuesday, March 1. Egan is the books editor at Glamour. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Self, Glamour, O, People, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Due to a Comcast outage, telephone lines in Maplewood Town Hall are currently unavailable, according to a recent release from the township. According to the release, Comcast should have service restored by at 2 p.m. this afternoon, Feb. 26. For all inquiries, please email township employees or submit a request in the request […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Middle School Honors Program, begun in September 2015, has undergone some changes for the 2016-17 school year thanks to a committed group of educators, administrators and parents, according to a district release. If your child is in fifth, sixth or seventh grades and a good candidate for an honors program, […]
BALTIMORE — Jonathan E. Rosenberg, 47, of West Orange pleaded guilty Feb. 25 to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a complex scheme to defraud investors and lenders by selling fraudulent investment portfolios of debts purportedly owed by hospital patients. Rosenberg has agreed to the entry of an order to pay restitution of […]
NEWARK, NJ — Former Bloomfield Police Officer Sean Courter, 35, of Englishtown, was sentenced on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to five years, with a five-year period of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Michael L. Ravin. In January, former Bloomfield Police Officer Orlando Trinidad, 34, of Bloomfield, was sentenced to a five-year prison term, with […]
NEWARK – Payne, Jr. was joined by Central Ward Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins, as well as parent advocates. “I was a kid from Newark. There’s nothing special about me that says you can’t be a member of Congress one day,” said Payne Jr. “I worked hard, I was fortunate, I had some breaks and opportunities […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Fire Department will be conducting training exercises in the interior of the former post office building on Maplewood Avenue on Feb. 25. The training exercises will continue daily, including weekends, until site preparation for the building demolition begins. Training times will vary. The fire department will park their engines in the […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Families can discover all that the West Essex YMCA summer camps have to offer at an information fair on Sunday, March 6. From 3 to 5 p.m. at the YMCA, parents can speak with camp directors while children learn about astronomy with the STARLAB portable planetarium — provided by the Fairview Lake […]
STILLWATER, NJ — Families are invited to the scenic, 600-acre Fairview Lake YMCA Camps on March 6 to check out more than two dozen camps and trips — from the traditional to the creative, to the adventurous — offered this summer for children ages 6 to 16. Parents can meet the camp directors at a […]