WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation’s Youth Advisory Board has been working throughout the pandemic, just as diligently as it had been before COVID-19 forced meetings to move online. The high school–led team of students received the Traffic Officers Association of Essex County’s Timothy Larney Memorial Traffic Safety Education & Enforcement Award, and […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Back again for another Facebook Live virtual town hall on April 14, East Orange Mayor Ted Green began the meeting with an open discussion about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which has been all over the news lately, due to concerns about women and blood clots. Joining the discussion were […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — On April 15, Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss held his State of the Township address, at which various guests from all walks of life came together to support Vauss and highlight Irvington’s many successes during the past year. “Every year, we join at Transcend Worship Center to go over the great things that […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council unanimously voted against settling a lawsuit with township resident Kevin Malanga at its April 6 meeting, rejecting an agreement that would have seen the town purchase 12 acres of open space on Ridge Road in addition to the carriage house several properties over. Malanga sued West […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School yet again has a student who has been accepted to multiple Ivy League schools. Even more impressively, the Odekunle family yet again has a student who has been accepted to multiple Ivy League schools. David Odekunle, a senior at BHS, has been accepted to seven Ivy League schools: Princeton […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Township Council unanimously passed an ordinance at its April 12 meeting that will ban commercial cannabis businesses from operating in the borough; this decision was made within the 180-day time frame that local municipalities had to make this decision, following Gov. Phil Murphy signing the marijuana legalization law […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — For the first few months of 2021, all eight Ivy League colleges had campus newsrooms led by women. Until March, when annual elections at Dartmouth College’s The Dartmouth changed the newspaper’s leadership, it was the second time ever that all eight schools had women in the top editorial position; […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Almost four months into his tenure as the administrator at St. Valentine Church in Bloomfield, the Rev. Andrew Onyemaobi is already working on big plans for the future. His current project is relaunching the religious education program, which was shuttered when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything that required people to gather […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted R. Green, Councilwoman Tameika Garrett-Ward and the city’s clean team were back in action on April 8 in the 4th Ward, starting at Hawthorne and Central avenues. The Mayor on the Block program provides information to residents, cleans up the area’s streets and solicits feedback from neighbors. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge had to eliminate the bake sale part of its annual “Rake and Bake” at Freeman Gardens this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but neighbors were still able to rake. The garden cleanup on Hawthorne Avenue drew residents out to weed, dig and plant in the first community cleanup […]