Support the COPE Center

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The COPE Center is hosting a ladies night out on Thursday, Dec. 7, from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at the Essex County Country Club, 350 Mount Pleasant Ave. in West Orange. On top of holiday shopping, enjoy a light dinner and wine bar. Tickets can be purchased at www.copecenter.net. COPE, which is […]

South Orange’s Conor Daly leads MKA boys soccer team to banner season

By Steve Tober MONTCLAIR, NJ – Pictured above, South Orange resident Conor Daly (center) holds the prep B tournament championship trophy alongside fellow senior tri-captains Nico Espionosa-Dice (left) and Ahmed Abukwaik after helping to lead Montclair Kimberley Academy’s boys soccer team to that title and also the sectional final of Non-Public, North B state tournament. […]

Bloomfield’s Lily Pryor leads MKA girls soccer team to banner season

By Steve Tober MONTCLAIR, NJ – Pictured above, Bloomfield resident Lily Pryor (left) was a standout midfielder for the Montclair Kimberley Academy girls soccer team which finished 17-4-5 and earned co-championships of both the Essex County Tournament and Non-Public B state tourney along with another co-championship in the N.J. prep B tournament. Pryor scored three […]

Brown bag event for seniors goes off without a hitch

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Health Department and West Orange Police Department sponsored a brown bag event for senior citizens, presented by ADAPT, the Essex Prevention Coalition, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the John P. Renna Jr. House. Seniors were invited to receive prescription medication education and turn in unwanted drugs. Photos Courtesy […]

Essex sheriff’s department, W. Orange, Nutley receive grants

WASHINGTON, DC — Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions recently announced $98,495,397 in grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services COPS Hiring Program. The attorney general announced funding awards to 179 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 802 additional full-time law enforcement officers. CHP provides […]

Enjoy a holiday candlelight tour of Kip’s Castle

VERONA, NJ — Essex County invites the public to take a holiday candlelight tour of Kip’s Castle in Verona to view the stained glass Tiffany windows and learn the history of this hidden gem. Tours will be held at 7 p.m. at Kip’s Castle Park, 22 Crestmont Road in Verona, on Tuesdays, Dec. 5, 12, […]

‘Lunch & Learn’ at CBI

MILLBURN, NJ — Congregation B’nai Israel, 160 Millburn Ave. in Millburn, will hold two “Lunch & Learn” sessions in November; lunch begins at 12:30 p.m. and the program begins at 1 p.m. On Thursday, Dec. 14, hear the dynamic cantorial duo of B’nai Israel’s Lorna Wallach and Cantor Erica Lippitz of Oheb Shalom in South […]