ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the Essex County Board of County Commissioners, the Essex County Division of Community Health and Family Connections’ ADAPT Coalition are encouraging residents to dispose of their old or unwanted prescription medications during the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day […]
TRENTON, NJ — To combat the worsening impacts of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the Murphy administration announced on April 21 an additional $6.6 million investment to offset the cost of electric trucks in vulnerable communities. Leveraging proceeds from New Jersey’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the […]
NEWARK, NJ — PSEG announced April 19 that Ralph Izzo, chairperson, president and CEO, will retire from the company. The PSEG board of directors has elected Ralph LaRossa, chief operating officer, as president and CEO effective Sept. 1, 2022. Izzo will serve as executive chairperson of the board effective Sept. 1 until his retirement on […]
NEWARK, NJ — For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started two years ago, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, archbishop of Newark, celebrated Easter Sunday Mass before a filled Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on April 17. Tobin told adherents that Easter is the ideal time to reaffirm their faith, just as […]
NEWARK, NJ — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently awarded Newark Beth Israel Medical Center its platinum-level recognition for the hospital’s efforts to increase enrollment in the New Jersey state organ donor registry and spread the lifesaving message of organ and tissue donation awareness. “Newark Beth Israel is honored to receive this […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey President and CEO Darrell K. Terry Sr. received the 2022 President’s Award from the NAACP of the Oranges & Maplewood. The branch hosted its 109th annual Thurgood Marshall Freedom Fund Gala at Cedar Hill Golf & Country Club in Livingston on […]
NEWARK, NJ — Augustine A. Boakye will be inaugurated as Essex County College’s ninth president in a ceremony on Thursday, May 5, at 10 a.m. in the Cleo Hill Sr. Physical Education Building on the college’s Newark campus. Boakye was appointed interim president on July 21, 2020. He was officially appointed president by the college’s […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Murphy administration recently announced the award of $1.4 million in Highway Safety Fund Program grants to 54 municipalities to promote safety along designated Safe Corridor highway segments. “The Highway Safety Fund provides grants to local law enforcement, helping ensure they have the tools they need to keep our roads safe,” […]
IONIAN SEA — Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Madeline Ortiz, from Newark, tightens bolts on the wing of an E/A-18G Growler in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on April 13. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area […]
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka and other dignitaries hoisted wrenches on April 11 to launch $23 million in new upgrades for a state-of-the-art facility at the Pequannock Water Treatment Plant. The water treatment plant is located at 2224 Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike in West Milford. The plant treats and then pipes water to residents and […]