IRVINGTON, NJ — Former police Chief Michael Chase said this week he still has not received the last paycheck owed to him by the township, according to the state Civil Service Commission. Chase’s base salary was $6,558.28 every two weeks, before taxes. But he maintains he never received any of that money after Irvington Public […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — According to her attorney, now that Superior Court Judge Michael Revan has cleared Irvington Police Department Capt. Monique Smith of all the criminal charges she faced in connection with the alleged 2014 assault on her one-time paramour, John “Sharpe” James, she is free to return to her job. “She was found not […]
CEDAR GROVE, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. and the Essex County Division of Senior Services hosted the county’s annual Older Americans Heritage Month Celebration on Wednesday, May 10, in the Essex County Robert O’Toole Building in Cedar Grove Park. May is recognized as National Older Americans Month. During the ceremony, DiVincenzo presented […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — New Jersey Democratic Party 2017 gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy came through Essex County this week, making a tour ahead of the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday, June 6, making stops in Irvington on Sunday, May 7, and East Orange on Monday, May 8. Murphy met with Mayor Tony Vauss, Irvington Democratic Committee […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — According to Mayor Tony Vauss, despite the fact that his administration has been forced to resort to furloughs in the form of deferred pay for municipal employees to close a $3.2 million gap in the Calendar Year 2017 Municipal Budget, he is still looking for ways to help the town’s homeowners who […]
CEDAR GROVE, NJ — Essex County will host its first Mental Health Awareness Month Open House at the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove. The goal of the daylong event is to raise awareness about mental health, to educate the public about behaviors that increase the risk of developing mental illness and to break […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — When the Irvington Housing Authority Board of Commissioners passed a resolution at its meeting on Wednesday, April 19 that named former Hoboken Housing Authority Executive Director Carmelo Garcia as its new executive director with a $155,000 starting salary, some IHA residents were not happy about it. Former IHA Director David Brown had […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The plan to furlough municipal employees that Mayor Tony Vauss announced Thursday, April 4, began last week and came to a head Friday, April 28, when some town workers and Irvington Municipal Council members who thought that was a regular pay day found out that they wouldn’t going be paid until Monday, […]
IRVINGTON, NJ – Former Irvington High School student Shakur Juiston has committed to continue his basketball career at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Juiston started his high school career at Irvington High School before transferring to Paterson Eastside. He then attended Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. This past season, the 6-foot-7 sophomore forward was named […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The home mortgage foreclosure crisis has been a hot topic of discussion throughout New Jersey, including at People’s Organization for Progress meetings, where 2017 New Jersey Democratic Party gubernatorial candidates Steve Wisniewski, Phil Murphy and state Sen. Raymond Lesniak have appeared ahead of the primary election set for Tuesday, June 6. “It […]