NEWARK, NJ — Progress continues on the installation of Positive Train Control equipment on NJ Transit’s rail fleet to meet federal year-end milestones, requiring NJ Transit to make a final set of rail service adjustments, the organization announced in a Sept. 20 press release. The temporary discontinuation of some trains and modified times and origin/destination […]
NEWARK, NJ — PSE&G is decreasing residential gas bills just in time for the winter heating season, according to a press release from the utility. On Sept. 17, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved, on a provisional basis, PSE&G’s June gas supply filing that will lower customers’ bills, effective Oct. 1. The typical […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has arrested a suspect in connection with the Friday, Aug. 17, homicide of a woman whose body was dumped on Krotik Place in Irvington and originally identified as the township’s fifth homicide of the year. It was later revealed she had actually been killed in Orange. On […]
ORANGE, NJ — The 10th annual Festival de Orange will be held on Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on South Day Street, hosted by Orange Board of Education member and Hispanos Mano a Mano President Cristina Mateo along with El Gavilan LLC and El Salvador Restaurant. According […]
FAIRFIELD, NJ — Arts Unbound, in collaboration with Essex Regional Educational Services Commission and ERESC Superintendent Laurie Newell, will host the third annual Arts Accessible Festival on Friday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the ERESC’s Essex Campus Academy, 369 Passaic Ave. in Fairfield. The purpose of the art festival is to […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange suffered its fourth homicide of the year on Wednesday, Sept. 5, but police work by members of the East Orange Police Division resulted in the apprehension and arrest of a suspect that same day. On Wednesday, Sept. 5, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and East Orange […]
ROSELAND, NJ — Essex County NJ Republican Women will celebrate the group’s one-year anniversary with “Candidates, Taxes, Dinner, New Friends & New Ideas” on Thursday, Sept. 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Jim Johnston’s Steakhouse, 58 Eisenhower Parkway in Roseland. According to the group, Essex County residents who tend to be conservative and value […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Photo by Although the new school year for East Orange STEM Academy began Thursday, Sept. 6, it was without teacher Kofi Owens. Owens was shot and killed Friday, Aug. 3, on South 16th Street. There is still a $10,000 reward being offered to anyone with information about the incident. “The Crime […]
CEDAR GROVE, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. congratulated 20 Essex County artists who received awards in the annual Essex County Senior Citizens Juried Art Show at an awards ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Robert O’Toole Community Center in Cedar Grove Park. “I congratulate the winners and all the artists who […]
ORANGE, NJ — Cleveland Street School The first day of school of the 2018-2019 school year in the Orange School District went off without a hitch on Monday, Sept. 10, and, according to interim Superintendent of Schools Ron Lee, there have been positive changes to the district’s instruction, facilities, leadership and administration. “This school year […]