EAST ORANGE — Mayor Ted. R Green gave the 2024 State of the City address on Thursday, April 11 in the Cicely L. Tyson Performing Arts Center on Winans Street. More than 200 people attended the event that included music from a Cicely Tyson school choir, an invocation from Rev. J. Jamal Pearson, the Pledge […]
The front lawn of the Irvington Public Library was hopping with activity on Saturday. Library staff had placed and hidden more than 1,000 Easter eggs on the lawn for children to find. “We put them out and pray that kids show up,” said Nnenna Chima, head of Children’s Services at the library. The eggs contained […]
Monday was a day to look skyward, with the proper eye protection, and the streets of Orange, in front of and around the high school, were filled with students, family, faculty and others looking to the heavens at a natural phenomenon. The peak time for the eclipse was about 3:24 p.m., not long after school […]
WEST ORANGE — Long-time West Orange resident Gilbert Seltzer thought he and his comrades had been given a suicide mission. The collection of artists, architects and engineers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit during World War II in Europe were to take positions with fake tanks and sound equipment to make the German army […]
WEST ORANGE — A film about the difficulties an underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams for the future is the latest work and the directorial debut for a West Orange filmmaker. “His mother is an alcoholic, his dad is absent, but he uses his education to catapult himself out of the circumstances,” said […]
IRVINGTON — Mayor Tony Vauss presented an Irvington State of the Township address for 2024 last week, looking at past accomplishments, future goals and celebrating everything Irvington. “We don’t want to just talk about it, we want to show you the progress we made,” Vauss said. The event took place Thursday, March 14, in the […]
Lyn Goldsworthy describes herself as a Valerie Fund mom. “My daughter was diagnosed with Meduloblastoma, a brain cancer, and we met the Valerie Fund immediately after the tumor was removed at Morristown,” said Goldsworthy, who lives in Bloomfield. “They took care of her through 13 months of radiation and chemo and beyond,” Goldsworthy said. “We […]
The sky was blue and the streets filled with green as the 71st annual West Orange St. Patrick’s Day parade passed through the township on Sunday. “I think it went great,” said Parade Committee Chairperson Michael Cunningham. “The rain held out. We got dribbled on a little bit at the end but at 12:15 exactly, […]
EAST ORANGE — A Homeless Prevention and Response team has been created by the city to help people in danger of losing their homes and those who are already homeless. Mayor Ted R. Green on Thursday introduced an expansion of his Mayor’s Homeless Initiative, which was created in 2020 to address the issue of chronic […]
MAPLEWOOD — Sharon Shepard Levine and Lori Brown Mirabal met at Clinton Elementary School where both had children enrolled as students. That meeting led to a 20-year-effort to create what has become an award-winning documentary called “Gabriel’s Daughter, The Life and Legacy of Clara Brown.” The documentary reflects on the life and legacy of freed […]