MOUNTAINSIDE / NEWARK, NJ — Shane Nelson has joined the board of trustees at Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, located in Mountainside and Newark. Nelson currently serves as the diversity, equity and inclusion business partner for Sanofi, a pharmaceutical company. In this role, he works with the company’s business units and functions on […]
NEWARK, NJ — At the conclusion of the 2020-21 school year, Jamila Colin was named Teacher of the Year at Newark’s South 17th Street Elementary School for her tireless dedication to serving the community. In fact, even when the bell rings and class is over, Colin’s work is just beginning. She serves as the supervisor […]
PHILIPPINE SEA — Surface Sonar Technician 2nd Class Khayri Gray-Hill, from Newark, monitors frequencies during a recent anti-submarine warfare exercise aboard Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold during Pacific Griffin 2021. Pacific Griffin is considered the most complex and warfare-centric bilateral engagement between the U.S. and Singaporean navies and represents a continued investment in the […]
PACIFIC OCEAN — Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Ronald Hunte, a native of Newark, assigned to the weapons department, assembles a dolly to transport ordnance aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on June 24. Vinson is currently underway conducting routine maritime operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet.
NEWARK, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. was joined by Gov. Phil Murphy at the groundbreaking of a $31.7 million project to expand and modernize Newark Tech on Monday, June 28. Newark Tech is the third school building in the Essex County Schools of Technology District to undergo renovations in the last […]
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced July 1 that the average lead levels in Newark water have fallen well below the federal benchmark for acceptable levels for the third straight reporting period, as the city continues to abate and eliminate all miniscule traces of lead from its drinking water. The new preliminary averages […]
TRENTON, NJ — As Pride Month drew to a close, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal took steps to recognize an ugly moment in the history of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office: the systematic targeting of gay bars by the Office’s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control between 1933 and 1967, according to a June 29 […]
NEWARK, NJ — In its first legal challenge to an immigration policy filed during the Biden administration, the American Civil Liberties Union launched a federal class-action lawsuit on June 30 that seeks to block immediately the long-distance transfer of ICE detainees from the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark. The case was brought by the […]
NEWARK, NJ — The NJ Sharing Network Foundation has awarded a scholarship to Ashley Jiggetts, of Newark, for her passion and dedication to raising awareness of organ and tissue donation. Jiggetts was presented with her scholarship award at the NJ Sharing Network’s headquarters in New Providence during a private ceremony with her family members in […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — RWJBarnabas Health urges everyone to donate blood and other blood products, such as platelets and plasma, to help overcome a national shortage. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing that was required to slow the spread of infection, there has been a significant drop in blood donations. […]