MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood School District has a new face at the helm of the school system. Thomas Ficarra is the interim superintendent of schools for the 2017-2018 school year, after the retirement of John Ramos Sr. Ficarra has held several different positions in the education field, most recently serving […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Department of Health Director Karen Lore has received a Partners for Health Foundation scholarship to attend a summit on the subject of walking. The National Walking Summit will take place in St. Paul, Minn., from Sept. 13 to 15. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together health, transit, planning and […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — New Jersey Monthly recently released its rankings of all of New Jersey’s towns. Essex County towns run the gamut, with the some of the best and some of the worst, according to the magazine’s methodology. In compiling New Jersey Monthly’s 2017 Top 100 Towns list, researchers at Leflein Associates, an independent […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The shrill of the whistle on Labor Day could mean only one thing: another summer lost. On all other nights, Glen Ridge Community Pool co-manager Bob Silvera would blow the whistle 10 minutes before the hour. That was tradition when the pool closed at eight. But on Monday of this week, he […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — When the Orange-Maplewood NAACP Unit hosts its Justice and Equality Rally on Sunday, Sept. 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Soverel Field Park, Springdale Avenue, East Orange, the Irvington chapter of the organization will be offering its support. The rally is being held in response to the recent events in […]
WEST ORANGE / MILLBURN, NJ — The Harrison Avenue Tavern is hosting a “halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” event on Saturday, Sept. 16, to support the family of Sean Cassels, a Millburn police officer and West Orange resident who died last year. The event will feature a barbecue and live music from bands Rocker Box […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Ivery Brinson, 30, of Newark, was sentenced to life in New Jersey state prison on Monday, Aug. 28, for killing mini-mart owner Narendrak Patel, 52, of Parsippany. In June of this year, an Essex County jury convicted Brinson of aggravated manslaughter, conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, felony murder, conspiracy to commit carjacking, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — When Seji Lusi and his partners at the Winning or Nothing T-shirt company on Springfield Avenue hosted the fifth annual W.O.N. Step Ahead Community Cookout and Back to School bash on Saturday, Aug. 26, in Union Avenue Park, the theme was “Giving back to our community that always has our Back.” For […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Mayor Michael Venezia has announced that an application by Bloomfield to enter the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge has been accepted. The challenge is a competitive process whereby communities of all sizes, world wide, propose universal solutions to its own municipal problems. The winning municipalities would receive funding and technical support to implement their proposals. […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington Housing Authority tenants met with representatives from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which subsidizes public housing in the township, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, in the Community Room at 624 Nye Ave. Residents voiced their concerns regarding new management, since David Brown, the IHA’s former executive director, was fired […]