BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School boys basketball team fell to Irvington High School, 62-52, Tuesday, Jan. 23, at home in a Super Essex Conference—Liberty Division game. Freshman Sean Perrotta had a game-high 18 points for the Bengals, who moved to 6-10 overall and 1-7 in the division. Junior forward Talan Bacote had 11 […]
An Irvington resident who served prison time for drug trafficking was among those invited to Gov. Phil Murphy’s state of the state address. Ulysses McMillan was sentenced to 22 years for drug trafficking while carrying a firearm. When he was released from prison, he met former Gov. Jim McGreevey and enrolled in New Jersey Reentry […]
MAPLEWOOD — It started as a project in Art Teacher Curtis Grayson’’s classes about Spain – its culture, its architecture and its artists. And then, Ricardo The Bull happened. The more than 600-pound steer, who escaped the slaughterhouse and took to the streets and rail lines of Newark, captured the hearts and imaginations of Grayson […]
A Glen Ridge student was among those selected to be a guest at Gov. Phil Murphy’s 2024 State of the State address. Sabrina Rose Charles is a senior honors student at the Rutgers University School of Nursing in New Brunswick, who developed a passion for service at a young age that continues to shape her […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — John Babula, a volunteer coach in the Bloomfield Soccer Club for the past seven years, has been named a 2024 regional winner of Positive Coaching Alliance’s Coach of the Year Award presented by TeamSnap. Babula was selected as one of only 36 regional winners from nearly 500 nominated coaches throughout the country. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The nascent Bloomfield High School boys swim team made a powerful statement at the Essex County Championship meet at Jersey Aquatic Center in New Providence on Monday, Jan. 15, placing eighth overall. Senior captain Aly Breikaa was second in the boys 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke. The 200-yard relay set a new […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School track and field coach and cross-country coach Barnes Reid was among the inductees of the 2024 New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame induction class. The induction ceremony took place on Sunday, Jan. 14, at the Pines Minor in Edison. For the past 45 years, Reid has served […]
An Irvington resident was fatally shot on the street in Newark. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the fatal shooting of Ty’Shad Campbell, 27, of Irvington, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé. On Jan. 14, at 4:25 a.m., police […]
Luna Stage will host the world premiere of “RIFT or White Lies,” a play about the relationship between a progressive writer and his white supremacist brother. Two brothers–one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang–are united through their traumatic childhood. Now adults, these men navigate […]
By Trey Williams Special to The Record-Trascript New Jersey is home to nearly two million immigrants and refugees. There is, however, significant inconsistency in the educational attainment of immigrant communities, particularly in Essex County. The percentage of Immigrants who have completed high school is 86% but only 36.7% pursue higher education. In Newark, with a […]