EAST ORANGE, NJ — Prospect Medical Holdings completed its acquisition of East Orange General Hospital on Tuesday, March 1, helping ensure the community health care provider’s future as an acute care hospital; Otis L. Story Sr. was named the hospital’s permanent president and chief executive officer, according to a press release from Prospect Medical Holdings. […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – The East Orange Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the murder of Tushon D. Jones, 32, of East Orange. On Sunday, Feb. 28, at approximately 12:54 a.m., police responded to Charles Street in East Orange, where they discovered the victim on the floor […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Do you, or someone you know, experience pain or anxiety, or feel overwhelmed by stress? Do you know that breathing focused on the outbreath can help resolve these complaints and improve your energy, create deep relaxation and help you manage stress? On Saturday, March 12, from noon to 2 p.m., at […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Community groups are joining forces — for a fourth year — in Millburn next month for a children’s volunteering event to help youngsters in need. ‘Kids For Kids,’ organized by the Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills, brings together local groups and children for a morning of hands-on volunteering […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Dozens of members of the East Orange Police Department appeared to have contracted a case of the blue flu, causing them to call out sick from work Friday, Feb. 19. According to sources in the East Orange Police Department that preferred to remain anonymous due to the fact the department’s unions […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — The honorees at the Essex County Democratic Committee’s annual Labor Breakfast, hosted on Friday, Feb. 19, at Nanina’s in the Park restaurant in Branch Brook Park in Belleville, were: Susan M. Cleary, the president of District 1199J, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Peter Growing, the council representative of Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters; Mark […]
NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and East Orange Public Safety Director Sheilah Coley announced that Christiana Fitzpatrick, 20, of Chicago has been arrested and charged with kidnapping an 11-month old baby boy from East Orange. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Fitzpatrick, who was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child and interfering with custody, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — In the 38-year history of New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange, Barbara James and Brenda Thurmond will become the church’s first female deacons at a formal ordination ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. at the church, located at 144 Norman St., East Orange. At New Hope Baptist Church […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The importance of the written word and history are the focus of workshops taking place at two area schools during Black History Month. During the week of Feb. 22, a number of students at Kean University in Union and The Cicely Tyson School of the Performing Arts in East Orange will […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Elected officials stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the steps of City Hall in East Orange on Thursday, Feb. 4, along with HANDS Inc.; New Jersey Communities United, a home mortgage and housing advocacy group; Valley Arts Executive Director Patrick Morrissy, and some of the city’s struggling homeowners, to demand that banks holding local mortgages […]