EAST ORANGE, NJ — On Friday, Jan. 20, East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor made local history when he named Deputy Chief Phyllis Bindi the city’s first female police chief and Andre Williams fire chief, the city’s youngest. A crowd of well-wishers and fellow officers from the East Orange Police and Fire departments filled Messiah Baptist […]
ORANGE, NJ — Orange South Ward Councilwoman Jamie Summers-Johnson told the crowd of approximately 25 residents at her Community Meeting in the Heywood Avenue Elementary School auditorium on Thursday, Jan. 19, that questions about the ongoing FBI probe into alleged fiscal abuses by Willis Edwards, the city’s former acting business administrator, and Tyshammie Cooper, East […]
Towns’ leaders want a MidTown Direct stop at Highland
ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Councilman Victor Cirilo is heading up a renewed effort to get NJ Transit to make improvements to the Highland Avenue Train Station in Orange now that work has started on the Harvard Press development project and the West Orange Township Council has approved the Central Valley Redevelopment Area nearby. Cirilo […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The subject material of “The River and the Thread,” the latest release from Rosanne Cash, is right in the country superstar’s wheelhouse. The album is an ode to the South — a reflection on its people, its history and its culture. And Cash’s heartfelt lyrics and impassioned vocals effortlessly capture the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Boy Scout Troop 23 hosted a pancake breakfast Saturday, Jan. 21, at Bethany Presbyterian Church, on West Passaic Avenue. It was for a good cause that came from a tragedy. The breakfast proceeds will be donated to a memorial scholarship at Bloomfield High School, that will be given in memory of 2008 BHS […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council unanimously approved a resolution during its Jan. 17 meeting that authorizes the township to apply for a Department of Environmental Protection Green Acres matching grant to be used to fund improvements to Lafayette and Degnan parks. According to the resolution, the grant will cover $45,525 of […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — South Ward Councilwoman Sandra Jones and Omar Bilal Beasley decided to join forces with Steve Harris and the Irvington Coalition for Empowerment to take a group of children from Irvington, Newark and Jersey City skating at the Floyd Hall Arena Ice Skating Rink on Monday, Jan. 16. Jones and Beasley are both […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Jan. 20, the day President Donald Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th president, hundreds of students from Columbia High School staged a walkout in protest. With verve, indignation and even a few pink hats, the students marched from CHS to Maplewood Town Hall, where they held a rally, at which they […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The annual Glen Ridge Antiques Show has a new dealer manager this year. Debbi Turi, who has sold at the show before, will now help run it. According to Turi, the previous dealer manager, Betsy Delorm, has moved away from the Glen Ridge area. The show is celebrating its 71st consecutive year, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — It’s a new year, but Elouise McDaniel, president of the Irvington Joint Block and Nesbitt Terrace Block associations, is continuing the effort to recall Mayor Tony Vauss, which she began with Dee Fuqua and Cathy Southern. Fuqua is president of the Orange Avenue and Oakland Avenue Block Association and Southern has run […]