IRVINGTON, NJ — The township suffered its third homicide of the year Thursday, Oct. 13, on Montgomery Street. According to a press release from acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Irvington police Director Tracy Bowers, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Task Force and the Irvington Police Department are investigating the incident in […]
VOORHEES, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has issued a drought warning for the following 14 counties: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren. The drought warning designation is an exercise of the DEP’s non-emergency authority and aims to reduce the likelihood or severity […]
TRENTON, NJ — The N.J. Assembly on Oct. 20 voted 71-0 to launch an investigation into the safety and financial practices of NJ Transit, giving the Assembly Judiciary Committee subpoena power to conduct an inquiry, according to a press release. The Judiciary panel is working on the inquiry with the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee; this […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington Chamber of Commerce hosted its 31st annual Police and Fire Heroism Awards Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Hanover Manor on Eagle Rock Avenue in East Hanover. This year’s honorees included: Deputy Chief Michael Rosa, captains John Del Sordo and John Durish, Lt. Evan Jones; and Irvington firefighters Paul […]
Don’t normalize domestic violence; help to end it instead
EAST ORANGE, NJ — October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and much has been done to bring awareness to the disease so far. But this is also National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and more should be done to combat this insidious killer lurking in our society. FAMILYConnections, a nonprofit organization based in East Orange […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, was in Newark on Thursday, Oct. 13, to take part in the grand opening of the new NAN Newark Tech World. The technology center will offer after school enrichment classes to local students and community members. “We are in the digital age,” […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders President Britnee Timberlake is on a mission to spread the good news that there is help for struggling homeowners trying to stave off foreclosure and stay in their homes, thanks to the nonprofit organization Boston Community Capital and its Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods initiative. Timberlake is planning […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington NAACP will host its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday, Oct. 21, at the Galloping Hill Inn in Union, starting at 7 p.m. “The Freedom Fund Banquet is our main fundraiser for the year, because we do have some expenses, although the church is offered to us free of charge […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The township recorded its second homicide of 2016 on Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Crescent Lane section of the Irvington Housing Authority complex on Union Avenue. “We have a homicide on Crescent Lane inside an apartment by someone we believe to be a friend of the victims,” said Mayor Tony Vauss on […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — DREAMS of Essex, a FAMILYConnections program that helps children and parents recover from domestic violence is launching #itscalledatanktop. This new social media campaign for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is observed in October, will bring awareness to the use of violence in our everyday language that has become so ingrained — […]