ORANGE, NJ — According to Lillian Moore, Orange West Ward City Council candidate Michael Scott’s campaign manager, Scott answered all the residency questions City Clerk Joyce Lanier raised when she originally decided he was ineligible to run in the nonpartisan municipal election on Tuesday, May 8, and he is now officially on the ballot. In […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Art Educators of New Jersey welcomed 109 students from throughout Essex County to the Hall of Records for the Art Educators of New Jersey student art exhibit on Friday, March 23. This is the 14th consecutive year the county has partnered with the Art Educators of New Jersey to present the […]
PARSIPPANY, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green hosted his first Black Tie Gala at the Hilton Parsippany Hotel on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, and even though he’s not Irish, he said the timing had more to do with serendipity and the old luck of the Irish than anything else. “We know folks […]
ORANGE, NJ — Orange voters went to the polls for a special election on Tuesday, March 13, electing Siaka Sherif and Tyrone Tarver to the two additional seats on the Orange Board of Education, now that the city has changed from a Type 1 District, in which the mayor appoints seven board members, to a […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The eighth annual Essex County Meet the Mayors Event will be Saturday, April 7, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Westminster Hotel, 550 West Mt. Pleasant Ave. in Livingston. The mayors of all 22 Essex County towns, as well as the mayors of Little Falls and Clifton, have been invited to participate. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — After the new Science Technology Engineering and Math Innovation Academy of the Oranges unofficially opened in the old Marylawn School on Scotland Road in South Orange on Monday, Feb. 26, followed by an official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, March 6, Adekunle James, the school district business administrator and […]
TRENTON, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy’s first proposed budget increases state “formula” aid that goes directly to school districts by $283.6 million, the initial step toward fulfilling the state’s school-funding obligation, according to a March 15 press release from the NJ Department of Education. The budget also increases aid for expanded preschool, STEM programs and […]
ORANGE, NJ — Despite legal complaints filed by two prospective candidates who Orange City Clerk Joyce Lanier had disqualified from running, she was still scheduled to have a drawing on Wednesday, March 14, at 3 p.m., to determine ballot positions for nine remaining candidates running for four City Council seats on the municipal election on […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange School District will host an Early Childhood Education Registration Fair on Saturday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Orange Early Childhood Center, 397 Park Ave. “It’s very important, because we need all of the families in Orange that have children that will be ages 3 to […]
PARSIPPANY, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green will be hosting his first Black Tie Gala at the Hilton Parsippany Hotel on Saturday, March 17, at 7 p.m. But Green’s friend, former boss and fellow municipal leader, Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss, said he already knows everything he needs to know about the event. Green worked […]