DiVincenzo presents 2023 Essex County budget of $885.4M

DiVincenzo presents 2023 Essex County budget of $885.4M

NEWARK, NJ — On Wednesday, Jan. 11, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. presented a 2023 county budget of $885.4 million that includes a 1.5-percent property increase and addresses the challenges incurred by the ongoing national economic conditions and rising costs due to inflation, according to a press release from the county. DiVincenzo has […]

Imagine welcomes new facilitators for Newark location

Imagine welcomes new facilitators for Newark location

NEWARK, NJ — Recently, Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss staff members Sonia Nunez, Newark program manager, and Ashley S. Allen, Newark training and education manager, trained a new team of facilitators to join Imagine’s rapidly growing Newark Night of Support. Many of the new facilitators will be facilitating Imagine’s groups that meet at […]

Clara Maass hosts teddy bear clinic for Three Kings Day

Clara Maass hosts teddy bear clinic for Three Kings Day

NEWARK, NJ — Newark’s 29th annual Three Kings Day Celebration was held Friday, Jan. 6, at the Essex County College Gymnasium. The event was hosted by state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, Mayor Ras J. Baraka and the Newark Municipal Council. At the event, Clara Maass Medical Center hosted a teddy bear clinic to help children […]

Newark Beth Israel appoints new medical director of heart transplant

Newark Beth Israel appoints new medical director of heart transplant

NEWARK, NJ — Dr. Claudia G. Gidea has been appointed medical director of heart transplant, mechanical circulatory support and advanced heart failure at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. An accomplished clinician, Gidea brings more than 20 years of research, innovation and clinical expertise to the advanced heart failure treatment and transplant team at Newark Beth […]

Two Essex County College students named to all-academic team

Two Essex County College students named to all-academic team

NEWARK, NJ — Elizabeth Bakare and Favour Ogbinaka are Essex County College’s 2023 representatives on the All USA–New Jersey Community College Academic Team. The high-achieving students are also in the running for the All USA National Academic Team. “I was surprised and really grateful for this honor,” said Bakare, a biology pre-medicine major from Newark. […]

Richardson, Pomares reelected president, VP of ECBCC for 2023

Richardson, Pomares reelected president, VP of ECBCC for 2023

NEWARK, NJ — On Wednesday, Jan. 4, District 2 Commissioner Wayne L. Richardson, of Newark, and District 5 Commissioner Carlos M. Pomares, of Bloomfield, were unanimously reelected president and vice president, respectively, of the Essex County Board of County Commissioners during the board’s 2023 reorganization meeting. All members of the board were in attendance as […]

DiVincenzo sworn into his sixth term as Essex County executive

DiVincenzo sworn into his sixth term as Essex County executive

NEWARK, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., left, recites the oath of office as he is sworn into his sixth term as executive by New Jersey and Essex County Democratic Committee Chairperson LeRoy Jones, right, on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Holding the Bible are Gov. Phil Murphy, second from left, and DiVincenzo’s son […]

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