EAST ORANGE / NEWARK, NJ — East Orange resident Carol Jenkins and Newark resident Theodore Lawton received awards in the annual Essex County Senior Citizens Juried Art Show. Jenkins was awarded first place in the professional drawing category for “Zentangle Turtle.” Lawton was awarded first place in the professional acrylic category for an untitled piece. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — United Way of Greater Newark, along with Greater Newark Health Care Coalition, has awarded more than $500,000 to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Project Ready, Bessie Mae Women’s Health Center and North Jersey Aids Alliance to fund COVID-19 vaccine efforts in Irvington, East Orange, Orange and Newark. The funding will help […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The Read-Up! Book Club for children in East Orange participated in the annual back-to-School event by giving away gently used books to all children who attended. The book club has a new location this year, meeting the third Saturday of each month at the Jersey Explorer Children’s Museum, 192 Dodd St. […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The People’s Organization For Progress will hold a march to Trenton for police accountability, social justice and economic progress on Monday, Oct. 11, starting at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Church Street and Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair. The march route is approximately 67 miles long and will wind its way through […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The New Jersey chapter of National Haitian American Elected Officials Network, East Orange representative Mayor Ted Green and East Orange Council representative 3rd Ward Councilman Bergson Leneus hosted a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 44 City Hall Plaza to speak out against the inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants in […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The city of East Orange has started construction on a major renovation project that will result in substantial structural and aesthetic upgrades to the lower portion of Main Street between North Arlington Avenue and North Burnet Street. Construction began Sept. 27 and is expected to be done in stages and last […]
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher has announced that 202 New Jersey schools are participating in the 2021-2022 school year’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program — the highest number since the program began in 2008. FFVP will be offered in 16 counties, including new additions Gloucester and Somerset, during the […]
ORANGE, NJ — On Sept. 15, Orange recognized the 58th anniversary of the 1963 terrorist attack that killed four innocent young girls attending church. That morning, a bomb exploded in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Prior to the bombing, the church had been used by Martin Luther King Jr., […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Jonathan Holloway, the first black president of Rutgers University, will deliver the keynote address for the Oranges & Maplewood NAACP’s “Great Speakers Series” via live webcast on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. Holloway will discuss “The Quest for Educational Equality: Social Justice in Education.” Proceeds from this event, which was […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Oranges & Maplewood NAACP Young Adult and Youth Works Committees will host a virtual youth summit livecast on Saturday, Sept. 25, at 11 a.m. titled “So You Think You’re Ready for this Adultin’ Thing”? Register online at www.omnaacpyouthsummit.eventbrite.com. The conference will feature a panel of experts to address various topics. […]