ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Murphy administration is awarding nearly $16.2 million in grants to communities across the state to help them enhance waste reduction and recycling programs, a slight increase over the previous year’s total, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced Feb. 24. In Essex County, Belleville will receive $46,277.76; Bloomfield […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Although never formally accepting a 2021 award from a collection of New Jersey forestry services for her effort over the years, Glen Ridge Shade Tree Commission President Elizabeth Baker is no shrinking violet when it comes to extolling the beautiful necessity of an arboreal canopy in the borough. A former councilwoman, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Civic Conference Committee will host an information session for anyone who wants to know how the town keeps the gas lamps burning! This is the annual chance for residents to join in and learn more about the nuts-and-bolts of how the borough of Glen Ridge runs. All are […]
NEWARK, NJ — On Wednesday, Feb. 16, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. hosted the county’s annual Black History Month celebration. During the ceremony, the county executive presented the Essex County Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award to acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and the Essex County Coretta Scott King […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — On Feb. 9, the Glen Ridge Public Library board of trustees voted to appoint Tina Marie Doody to the position of library director, effective March 14. Doody joins the Glen Ridge Public Library from her previous position as assistant director at the Plainfield Public Library, where she was employed since 2009. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office held a virtual town hall event on Feb. 9 to address safety concerns in the Jewish faith-based community; acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and other ECPO employees discussed threat and risk assessments for Jewish houses of worship and took questions from audience members. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge is looking at multiple ways to make streets safer for its residents. Chief among them is an application for a New Jersey Department of Transportation Safe Routes to Schools grant aimed at motivating children to walk and bike to school. According to borough Director of Planning and Development Erik […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Essex County Division of Senior Services invites Essex seniors ages 60 and older to submit an original story focusing on a special person, life-changing experience or significant period of their life to the 2022 Essex County Legacies Writing Contest. “Our senior citizens have led interesting lives and I am always […]
GLEN RIDGE / MONTCLAIR, NJ — Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center has been recognized for excellence with the Ardent Cup, the highest honor awarded by Ardent Health Services. The hospital was also honored with the Best Employee Loyalty Award and CEO Tim O’Brien was named Ardent’s CEO of the Year. Ardent operates Mountainside Medical Center […]
GLEN RIDGE / MONTCLAIR, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Health has licensed Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center, located in Glen Ridge and Montclair, to provide elective angioplasty, a scheduled procedure in which cardiologists use stents to open clogged coronary arteries in patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease. This minimally invasive treatment restores blood […]