TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey Department of Transportation officials announced that the Pulaski Skyway is scheduled to be closed in both directions this weekend and next weekend to install deck panels as the rehabilitation of the historic 83-year-old bridge advances. Beginning at 10 p.m. tonight, through 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, NJDOT’s contractor, CCA Civil […]
ORANGE, NJ — Monday, April 4, was a busy day for Orange East Ward Councilman and 2016 mayoral candidate Kerry Coley, who received an endorsement from the Essex County Police Benevolent Association for his mayoral bid in the nonpartisan municipal election Tuesday, May 10. “The Essex County Police Benevolent Association Local 89 unanimously has endorsed […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — At long last South Orange Village has a new website. This long-discussed change was soft-launched last week and can be viewed at www.southorange.org. The new website has several new tools and has improved upon pre-existing ones. Now, on the right-hand side of the front page, there are five clickable categories: “SO […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange Housing Authority, which had hosted an annual Black History Month celebration at Washington Manor on Wednesday, Feb. 24, teamed up with the Orange School District to celebrate Women’s History Month there on Tuesday, March 29. More than 20 third-graders from Park Avenue Elementary School helped recognize the ways women have […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Democrat Councilman Joseph Lopez, the mayoral candidate who was removed from the Essex County Democratic Committee party line last week for the June 7 primary election and replaced by incumbent Mayor Michael Venezia, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that he was attempting to find support to have his name reinstated on […]
NEWARK, NJ — In a unanimous vote, the NJ Transit board of directors appointed William Crosbie as the new executive director of NJ Transit during a special meeting on Wednesday, April 6. The appointment is effective on or about Monday, April 25. Crosbie succeeds Dennis J. Martin, who has served as the agency’s interim executive […]
ORANGE, NJ — Mayoral candidate Janice Morrell issued a press release Friday, April 1, denying any involvement with negative campaign literature focused on images and statements about Councilwoman at Large Donna K. Williams sleeping on the job. Morrell is running for mayor on the “Change We Need Voice We Deserve” ticket in the nonpartisan municipal […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The funeral for 2014 mayoral candidate, longtime Irvington municipal employee and local Haitian community leader Jean Lamothe was at Eglise Baptiste de la Nouvelle Jerusalem Church on Saturday, April 2. The church, located on Nye Avenue, just off Springfield Avenue and across the street from Civic Square, had an area outside cordoned […]
NEWARK, NJ – An Irvington resident was arraigned today on multiple drug charges following his arrest in Newark’s North Ward last night by Essex County sheriff’s detectives. Sheriff Armando Fontoura said that in response to numerous neighborhood complaints of open-air drug trafficking in the area of Parker Street and Park Avenue, detectives from his department’s Bureau of Narcotics conducted a […]
TRENTON, NJ – Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy announced that 16 defendants have been arrested in “Operation Safeguard,” a joint operation by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and ICE Homeland Security Investigations that targeted offenders who used an online file-sharing network to download and distribute child pornography, including videos of young children being […]