ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office held a virtual town hall event on Feb. 9 to address safety concerns in the Jewish faith-based community; acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and other ECPO employees discussed threat and risk assessments for Jewish houses of worship and took questions from audience members. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University’s Bateman Team kicked off its monthlong campaign for lymphoma awareness on Feb. 14, with the launch of “Seton Hall Love Week.” The team, which is a division of SHU’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, has to build a public relations campaign for a client […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange has been going through a lengthy contract dispute, stretching well into the fourth year, for some employees who are working with no contract. But, according to city administrator Solomon Steplight, there is no truth to an accusation that the city is funneling funds from federal COVID-19 relief for the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge is looking at multiple ways to make streets safer for its residents. Chief among them is an application for a New Jersey Department of Transportation Safe Routes to Schools grant aimed at motivating children to walk and bike to school. According to borough Director of Planning and Development Erik […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Superintendent of Schools Scott Cascone discussed the end of the state mask mandate in schools at the West Orange Board of Education meeting on Monday, Feb. 7, saying that the district will not make knee-jerk decisions and will use corresponding local health guidelines to decide whether or not to […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange Trustee Bob Zuckerman announced that a license for a cannabis manufacturing facility was removed from the proposed ordinance allowing the sale of legal cannabis in South Orange at the South Orange Planning Board’s Feb. 7 meeting, two weeks after residents in the Academy Heights neighborhood expressed concerns about manufacturing […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The outreach team of the Community Care & Justice program worked with the South Orange Police Department and the South Orange Rescue Squad to collect and distribute coats throughout January. Nearly 150 coats were donated by the community, and the South Orange Rescue Squad held an open house for anyone in need […]
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Gov. Phil Murphy welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to Newark to highlight the success of the city’s Lead Line Replacement Program on Feb. 11. “Less than three years ago, we put the first shovels in the ground with the […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — The Year of the Tiger was ushered in with Mayor Michael Melham making remarks followed by a virtual fireworks display that lit up the sky over Town Hall on Feb. 1. Chinese New Year is a time for Belleville to recognize an important chapter in its history. The very first Chinese New […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — It’s been a memorable couple of months for Irvington High School football coach Ashley Pierre, affectionately known as “Coach Smoke.” He was recently named NJ.com’s football Coach of the Year and, on Sunday, Jan. 30, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Coffee4Coaches contest named Pierre as one of this fall’s winners. […]