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 […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A lawsuit between Bloomfield and a private developer regarding the cost of the historic train tunnel on Lackawanna Place has been sent back to trial court by a NJ Appellate Court. A panel of three Appellate Court judges decided 3-0, on April 10, that testimony favorable to Bloomfield, but ruled inadmissible by a […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange 5th Ward Councilwoman Alicia Holman clarified her remarks with regard to city council’s vote to extend acting Public Safety Division Director Sheilah Coley’s temporary appointment by another 45 days at its regular meeting on March 26, following Mayor Ted Green’s request for the extension. “We just gave her another […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Four Berkeley Elementary School students, who were awarded a second-place finish in a statewide, mock trial competition for fifth-graders, will perform a dramatization of the trial next month at the NJ Law Center, in New Brunswick. The four students are Avery Atexide, Gabriel Caberte, Ella Gulczynski and Samantha Moya. They will play characters […]
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 — Themes of self-identity and Caribbean culture took center stage as Jamaican author Nicole Dennis-Benn discussed her award-winning novel “Here Comes the Sun” as part of the writer lecture series hosted by the Seton Hall University Department of Africana Studies on Wednesday, April 11, at the university. For her novel, Dennis-Benn won […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Board of Education is especially forward-looking at this time with the budget for the 2018-2019 school year being considered plus a recently acquired building that was once a school now being retrofitted for students, possibly in September 2019. In its tentative budget submitted to Essex County authorities, Glen Ridge […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Senior citizens and a group of Maplewood Middle School students came together for a brainstorming session in the school’s library Monday, April 16, to discuss the benefits of middle school students and seniors spending time together for the launch of the Share/Exchange program. The event was a collaboration between Maplewood Senior Share, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council introduced the 2018 municipal budget at its April 10 meeting, proposing a total budget of $83,209,749 for the year. Nearly 64 percent of the operating budget will come from property taxes; the town will collect $52,982,824.98 in taxes — a nearly 2-percent increase, according to business […]
Photo by Chris Sykes From left, Team Irvington Strong teammates and 2018 at large Municipal Council candidates Councilwoman October Hudley, Councilwoman Renee Burgess and Councilwoman Charnette Frederic stand with Mayor Tony Vauss, right, as they turn in nominating petitions to run in the Tuesday, May 8, municipal election, in January, almost as soon as petitions became available, in […]