ORANGE, NJ — Orange Mayor Dwayne Warren and Orange City Council wanted to do something ambitious with this year’s annual back-to-school book bag giveaway event to promote community engagement at the same time, so they combined those efforts into the 12 Hours of Community Service event Saturday, Sept. 9. According to Warren, the 12 Hours […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Police Department is looking to reorganize to better serve the community. Specifically, the department will be adding a new police captain position — increasing from four to five. The issue, introduced at the Sept. 5 Township Council meeting, was met favorably and the council approved the issue on […]
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Community Coalition on Race presented its coffeehouse discussion “RACISM: It’s in Our Backyard Too” on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at The Woodland in Maplewood and tackled community issues surrounding local law enforcement, public school district inequities and the role that recent events in Charlottesville, Va., play on […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Berkeley Terrace Apartments complex on Grove Street has a new owner who held a special meeting Thursday, July 27, with his tenants inside Council Chambers in the Municipal Building to inform them about the upgrades he intends to implement. On Wednesday, Aug. 2, Josh Levy of Candlebrook Properties, the real estate […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Members of a recently formed activist group calling itself “Bloomfield Citizens Solar Campaign” will speak at the public hearing of the Monday, Sept. 25, Bloomfield Council meeting to announce their intentions of getting the township to go solar. One member of the group, Ted Glick, said that this is only the kickoff of […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Hundreds gathered to kick off the “STOP for Nikhil” on the track at West Orange High School’s Suriano Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 17. The 5K run and 3K walk was organized by the Nikhil Badlani Foundation for the seventh year in honor of Nikhil Badlani, a West Orange middle school student […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Robert J. Miller Oysterfest kicked off on Saturday, Sept. 16, the third year that the melanoma awareness fundraiser was held at The Woodland in Maplewood. Honoring the life of resident Bob Miller, who died from melanoma in 2014, the event provided free skin checks as well as live music, food and […]
ORANGE, NJ — Orange Board of Education member Cristina Mateo and the Hispanic Coalition hosted a soccer tournament at the Orange High School baseball field at Central Avenue Playground on Saturday, Sept. 9, during the 12 Hours of Community Service event. “We put the soccer tournament together. We had about eight different teams coming from […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — West Ward Councilman Vern Cox is on a mission to clean up the city’s nightlife and social scene by closing down some of the strip bars and clubs that seem to have become magnets for crime, drugs, violence, and he’s using the Alcoholic Beverage Control bureau to do it. According to township […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Gladys Rivera, the Bloomfield Board of Education member whose legal residency was challenged after she was elected in November 2016, has resigned from the board. In a Sept. 6 letter to Schools Superintendent Sal Goncalves, Rivera cited as the reason for her departure “various unpleasant situations and emotional distress during and into my […]