NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino announced March 6 that Ali Muhammad Brown pleaded guilty to the 2014 murder of Livingston teenager Brendan Tevlin. Brown, now age 34, fatally shot Tevlin, 19, while he was waiting at a stop light in West Orange on his way home to Livingston. In his court […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — International Women’s Day occurred March 8, but the celebration continued into the weekend when South Orange’s Oheb Shalom Congregation honored its own Cantor Erica Lippitz, who is celebrating 30 years of serving in the cantorate. “From Bima to Broadway” featured Lippitz and cantors Magda Fishman, Alisa Pomerantz-Boro and Elizabeth Shammash, who […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — One by one, students at West Orange High School read the names of the students and faculty members who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 in Parkland, Fla. They shared about each student, their hopes and dreams that would not be fulfilled. And they said: Remember […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The ArtPride New Jersey Foundation, in partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, recently announced the winners of the 2018 JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Awards, including several venues in Essex County. More than 18,000 ballots were cast in the annual contest, which celebrates the extraordinary work of New Jersey’s […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Resident Kevin Malanga filed a lawsuit against the township of West Orange, the Township Council and the Planning Board on Feb. 14 in Essex County Superior Court, saying that the decision to designate the Essex Green and Executive Drive properties as an “area in need of redevelopment” was “unreasonable, arbitrary and […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood’s controversial ordinance that blocked landscapers from using gas-powered leaf blowers is still the subject of a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association, which has hopes to change the town’s position on using the landscaping tool. The ordinance passed last April when residents complained that a less restrictive rule […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Mayor Tony Vauss and Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers had nothing but good things to say about the township’s response to the first big snow of 2018. “I’m very proud of our Department of Public Works. They did a great job, not only with the snow but with the storm we just […]
BLOOMFIELD and GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A winter storm coupled with a nor‘easterner deposited up to 12-inches of snow in Bloomfield and Glen Ridge on Wednesday, March 7. The combined results of snow and moisture produced the toughest storm the public works departments of both communities have faced in memory, according to their directors. “As far […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange School District will host an Early Childhood Education Registration Fair on Saturday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Orange Early Childhood Center, 397 Park Ave. “It’s very important, because we need all of the families in Orange that have children that will be ages 3 to […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A winter storm coupled with a nor‘easterner deposited up to 12-inches of snow in Bloomfield and Glen Ridge on Wednesday, March 7. The combined results of snow and moisture produced the toughest storm the public works departments of both communities have faced in memory, according to their directors. “As far since I’ve […]