WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School Student Council has continued its fundraising efforts and recognition of Black History Month with a campaign on its Instagram page. Each year, the Student Council holds a large Black History Month dinner and event featuring guest speakers and student performances. Due to the recent COVID-19 surge, […]
NEWARK, NJ — Gospel singer Albert J. Lewis Jr., 75, of Newark, has been charged with criminal sexual contact, unlicensed practice of medicine and luring of an adult, according to a Feb. 10 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. The defendant was taken into custody on Tuesday, Feb. 8, without incident at his […]
NEWARK, NJ — Two people were arrested Feb. 10 for their alleged roles in a scheme to steal and alter checks from the mail by using stolen U.S. Postal Service keys that access mail receptacles and to fraudulently obtain funds from banks by depositing the stolen and altered checks, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced […]
BELLEVILLE / NUTLEY, NJ — American Legion Post 105 and Sons of the American Legion Squadron 105 made life a little sweeter recently by buying and donating 120 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to overseas-deployed troops and veterans. As they do every year, Girl Scouts around the country sell cookies as their biggest annual fundraiser. […]
NEWARK, NJ — Andrew Hrechak, of Irvington, recently joined Essex County College as chairperson of the Division of Mathematics, Engineering Technologies and Computer Sciences. Hrechak has been an academic chairperson, academic coordinator and professor at New Jersey colleges for more than 30 years. He most recently served as interim/assistant chairperson in the School of Business’ […]
ROSELAND, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. presented awards on Feb. 8 to the winners in the Essex County Forest Friends Feeder Contest. “We congratulate the winners of the Essex County Forest Friends Feeder Contest and thank all the contestants for sharing their creativity and talent to create artwork that also provides […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — COVID-19 has inflicted financial hardship on many of PSE&G’s customers and left them struggling to pay bills. Today, twice as many customers are seriously behind on their bills than before the pandemic, according to the utilities company. New Jersey’s grace period on utility disconnections ended Dec. 31, 2021. Customers at risk […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Gallery at TSTI presents “Behind the Mask: Creativity in Times of COVID,” an online exhibition of artistic work created by members of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last summer, the Gallery at TSTI asked members to submit videos and photos of their […]
GLEN RIDGE / MONTCLAIR, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Health has licensed Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center, located in Glen Ridge and Montclair, to provide elective angioplasty, a scheduled procedure in which cardiologists use stents to open clogged coronary arteries in patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease. This minimally invasive treatment restores blood […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Alliance of Private Special Education Schools of North Jersey, a nonprofit group of 43 state-approved private special education schools, has opened the application cycle for its 2022 “Connections for the Future Scholarship.” Each year, the alliance awards three scholarships, at least one of which is for $1,000, to graduating public […]