MAPLEWOOD, NJ — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, ranking member on the Senate’s transit subcommittee, and U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill announced Dec. 13 the awarding of $17,275,000 in federal funding to enhance commuter bus service, expand capacity and reduce wait times for riders on dozens of overcrowded NJ Transit routes in Essex, Hudson and Bergen counties. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An ordinance forming the Essex County Correctional Facility Civilian Task Force was recently approved, according to a Dec. 12 announcement from Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo and Freeholder President Brendan Gill. Creating the ordinance was a collaborative effort and its adoption allows the process of nominating members to the task force […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Margaret “Peggy” Tally, a professor in SUNY Empire State College’s School for Graduate Studies, has been named a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Professor by the State University of New York board of trustees. SUNY Empire’s sixth faculty member to hold this title, Tally has been a resident of Maplewood since 1997. SUNY’s Distinguished […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School film student Jordan Miller won the Best Fiction Film Award for his movie, “You Have The Right To Remain Silent,” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the fifth annual High School Film Festival hosted by Ramapo College of New Jersey. Other students who worked on the film included Jordan Young, […]
TRENTON, NJ — Looking to make New Jersey public schools seizure safe, a bill providing for school personnel to be trained in seizure first aid and authorizing the creation of individualized seizure action plans for students with epilepsy was approved in the Assembly Education Committee on Dec. 9. Sponsors of the bill, Assembly Democrats Mila […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Students from Columbia High School and Maplewood Middle School, and residents of South Orange and Maplewood gathered at Maplewood Town Hall on Dec. 6 to protest climate change, skipping class before catching a train to Newark to participate in the student-led North Jersey Climate Strike. In an event organized by the CHS […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Village invites the community to attend a gingerbread house decorating party on Saturday, Dec. 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the corner of West Fairview and Irvington avenues. Children will be able to decorate a gingerbread house, craft snowflakes and design ornaments. There will be music, hot chocolate, eggnog […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange and Maplewood have set their sights on making 2,000 luminary bags for the towns’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in January, and the road to that goal started Dec. 5 at the South Orange Public Library as residents gathered to put the paper bag and candle kits […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Recently, the Robert J. Miller Foundation donated $20,000 to the Melanoma Research Foundation in memory of Chris Westdyk. The funds were raised from the fifth annual Oysterfest celebration in September. Bob Miller was a longtime Maplewood resident who lived in the heart of town with his wife, Grace, and their four daughters. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — At the start of the new year, the four-legged members of the Essex County Sheriff’s Office will be hanging up their leashes. Effective Jan. 1, the Essex County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit, which has been in action since 1987, will be disbanded. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the officers in this unit […]