SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When New Jersey Monthly closed the last round of voting for its pizza poll, an annual contest to determine who makes the best pizza in the state, South Orange’s Reservoir Restaurant came out on top. And The Villager’s food review team agrees. After eating some of Reservoir’s pies at an office […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Saint Barnabas Medical Center recently hosted a Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Day educational program, featuring Dr. Arash Fazl, a movement disorder specialist board-certified in psychiatry and neurology. Fazl, a Barnabas Health Medical Group provider, spoke to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people about the latest breakthroughs in Parkinson’s disease treatment. Parkinson’s […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Mount Pleasant and Prospect avenues will soon see a new business open on their intersecting corner, as the Goddard School prepares to open in West Orange. The private preschool and kindergarten teaches 65,000 students between the ages if 6 weeks and 6 years in 460 schools across 36 states. With 65 […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Reservoir Restaurant in South Orange was recently named the winner in New Jersey Monthly’s 2018 Pizza poll and now can boast itself to be New Jersey’s favorite pizza. According to NJ Monthly, “the original Reservoir Restaurant was opened in 1935 in Newark by Vincenza Agnellino, a widow with six children. Vincenza […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Pleasantdale Presbyterian Church, which has stood at the corner of Eagle Rock Avenue and Pleasant Valley Way since the 1960s, has been demolished. A Chase Bank branch will be built at the site. The Pleasantdale congregation merged with First Presbyterian Church in Caldwell. Photos by Yael Katzwer
IRVINGTON, NJ — When township Master Clerk Harold Wiener had the drawing on Monday, May 12, to determine ballot positions for the municipal election on Tuesday, May 8, mayoral candidate Elouise McDaniel and her running mate for an at large council seat, Allison Morris, were not included. “As of right now, as far as my […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The on-site leasing center is now open at The Mews at Edison Lofts in Edison Village, Prism Capital Partners’ industrial-to-residential redevelopment of the historic Thomas Edison Invention Factory and Commerce Center in West Orange. The Mews features a boutique collection of 34 one- and two-bedroom new construction homes. The on-site leasing […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Downtown West Orange Alliance will host its second Restaurant Week, kicking off March 11 and wrapping up on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. With more than 20 of West Orange’s hottest dining establishments participating, locals and visitors to the community will get the chance to sample select dishes from a […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — JAG Physical Therapy, headquartered in West Orange, recently announced that Joseph Persico, clinical director of the organization’s Union facility, has joined alongside John Gallucci Jr., Richard Giordano, Michael Evangelist and Jeffrey Rigby as the ownership team of the company. “I could not be more proud to announce Joseph Persico as JAG […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — When former East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor was sworn into office in January 2013, he took over a city whose water commission and water utility in general were in disrepair, due to what he and others later cited as mismanagement by Executive Director Harry Mansmann and his deputy director, William […]