BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A group of Bloomfield parents, concerned with the allegation that a winning school board candidate may not have been a township resident for the requisite time, spoke out over the weekend. The parents were Jen and Ted Gamble; Stephanie Gulley; Satenik Margaryan, Ben Morse, Lauren Fabetti, Meghan Gulczynski and Kim Beese. The group […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Education Foundation presented the West Orange High School boys’ step team with a check for $3,600 at the Dec. 12 Board of Education meeting. The award-winning team are current state champions and former national champions. The team cheered as team director William Farley said the money will be […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The sixth annual Gregory neighborhood food drive continued its tradition of record-breaking grocery collections for the Holy Trinity-West Orange Food Pantry and community relationship building on Dec. 11. Approximately 5,000 pounds of nonperishable grocery items were donated by more than 300 families in the Gregory neighborhood. The food drive began in […]
ORANGE, NJ — The year may be coming to an end, but the death toll continues to increase in Orange, with the number of homicides in the city now at eight. On Friday, Dec. 2, acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Orange Police Director Todd Warren announced a 16-year-old male juvenile had been […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Let’s look back again to the ‘40s when our country was engaged in World War II and Bloomfield students were expected to do their fair share in winning the struggle. In a very real way, Bloomfield children were an active division in a nationwide children’s crusade. In every school — and there […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — This past Tuesday, Dec. 13, it was expected that the Bloomfield Board of Education would discuss the residency qualifications of two newly elected board members, Gladys Rivera and Lillian Mancheno, at their regular meeting of that night. While Mancheno was interviewed during the summer by The Independent Press and said she has been […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — All 11 schools in the West Orange School District once again answered the call to create holiday cards for the troops with a resounding “yes,” as more than 1,000 cards were recently sent out to troops around the world. “We Love Our Heroes,” a local group comprised of friends and parishioners […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Two years ago, when Mayor Tony Vauss was running for office, some beleaguered homeowners wanted him to take the suggestion from a nonprofit group to use Irvington’s eminent domain powers to take mortgages back from the banks and lenders threatening to foreclose on them. Although this may have helped struggling homeowners keep […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A longtime Brookdale barber thinks he may see the writing on the wall and has started a petition campaign to send out his own message. Fred Ardizzone, owner of Brookdale Barber Shop, has brought to the attention of other business owners and their customers, in the most-northern section of Broad Street, that the […]
Planning Board approves redevelopment plan, debates merit of including public self-storage area
WEST ORANGE, NJ — At its Dec. 7 meeting, the West Orange Planning Board unanimously approved the redevelopment plan for the six Central Valley properties designated as a condemnation area in need of redevelopment. But the board did not just wholly accept the plan, which was prepared by Peter Van den Kooy and Sean Moronski […]