BELLEVILLE, NJ — Belleville is now officially a Purple Heart town, after the Belleville Town Council approved a resolution at its June 7 meeting. The Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 366 relocated from Clifton to Belleville and is headquartered at American Legion Post 105. The Belleville Historical Society recently built and donated a […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. announced a partnership with First Tee to create a learning center and three-hole practice course for the youth development program at Hendricks Field Golf Course in Belleville on Wednesday, June 9. This will be the second First Tee program established in Essex County and will […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Belleville’s Zander Ruglio, second from left, and West Caldwell’s Benjamin Lindeblad, third from left, caught the most fish in the boys ages 11 to 15 category at the Essex County Fishing Derby in Grover Cleveland Park in Caldwell/Essex Fells on Saturday, June 12. They each caught two fish. Presenting the awards are […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — On Saturday, June 5, Belleville held a groundbreaking ceremony behind Belleville High School as the starter’s gun on construction of a sweeping $5.5 million project to enhance and enlarge the athletic facilities in the township. The highlight of the plan will be a new track that will allow the high school boys […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Sons of the American Legion Squadron 105 held a spring breakfast on Sunday, May 16, for no other reason than to just get together and have a nice meal together as an American Legion family. With 15 dozen eggs donated by Hazelman Farms in West Milford, plus food donated and purchased by […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Do you need to report a tree that has fallen into a township road? Is there an issue with a fire hydrant on your street? Do you have some questions about garbage pickup? The township of Belleville is implementing a new cloud-based platform that is making getting the answers to these and […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Dozens of neighbors lined Lake Street in this close-knit Silver Lake neighborhood on Saturday, June 5, to honor a local man who forged a decades-long career as a public servant in Belleville and Essex County. The ceremonial renaming of the street to Angelo C. Risoli Way was a way to thank the […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — American Legion Post 105 and Sons of the American Legion Squadron 105 distributed poppies during Memorial Day Weekend at the ShopRite on Washington Avenue, raising thousands of dollars to go directly to the organizations’ programs supporting veterans in need. As does almost every veterans organization in the country, Post and Squadron 105 […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Oranges & Maplewood Branch of the NAACP will mark the Juneteenth holiday with flag-raising ceremonies across several Essex County towns represented in the branch’s catchment area. A special commemorative flag or banner has been designed to fly or hang over the municipal complexes in Belleville, Bloomfield, East Orange, Livingston, Maplewood […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Open Space Institute, along with the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition and September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance, recently announced the critical support of federal, state and local elected leaders for the Essex–Hudson Greenway Project. N.J. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill of the 11th Congressional District, Essex […]