MONTCLAIR, NJ — Brown University religious studies professor Andre Willis will discuss the Biblical concept of freedom in the modern black and Jewish imaginations on Saturday, March 27, at 11 a.m. at Bnai Keshet in Montclair via Zoom. The talk, “Exodus: Freedom in the Modern Black and Jewish Religious Imaginations,” is free of charge and […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green hosted a March 10 town hall meeting with East Orange Health Officer Victor Kuteyi, East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi and Dr. Shobha Swaminathan, associate professor of medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, to discuss the clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccines and to address […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge School District business administrator Barbara Murphy presented the district’s preliminary 2021-2022 budget at the March 15 Board of Education meeting, beginning the process of putting the $35,811,254 budget in place. The tax levy will increase by 2 percent, which is lower than the 2020-2021 budget’s increase of 3.16 percent. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The fire departments of Belleville, Bloomfield, East Orange, Nutley, Orange and West Orange are currently enrolled in the 40-hour Officer 1 course at Bloomfield High School; 100 firefighters are taking part in the training, which runs from Feb. 22 to March 19. The course is being taught by instructors from the […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington community suffered a terrible loss recently, with the death of 21-year-old fire recruit Victor Melillo on March 8. Melillo was well on his way to becoming a part of the Irvington Fire Department family as an official firefighter. Even though Melillo wasn’t a firefighter yet, the Irvington Fire Department must […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Students in kindergarten through second grade in the South Orange–Maplewood School District returned to their classrooms on March 15, even as mediation between the district administration and the South Orange–Maplewood Education Association broke down the week before. On March 9, the district released a statement saying that the Board […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race and the Presidents Council of the South Orange–Maplewood School District will present “Roadmap to Equitable School Integration: Lessons Learned from ‘Nice White Parents’” on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. via Zoom. As the SOMSD prepares to better integrate its elementary schools, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Kelly Elementary School counselor Florence Chirichiello had the unique opportunity to participate in an International Women’s Day panel to kick off Women’s History Month at her alma mater, Stony Brook University, on March 8. “I was honored to be on an illustrious panel of women to kick off Women’s History Month […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Calling all runners and walkers! Register for the St. Cassian 2021 Cougar Challenge 5K and Fun Run, to be presented virtually by St. Cassian School, a school serving students in pre-K through eighth grade in Upper Montclair. Participants can complete their runs anytime and anywhere between April 16 and 18. All registrants […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Department of Health and Human Services is hosting an Instagram Live event with registered dietitian Carlie Saint-Laurent Beacejour in celebration of National Nutrition Month. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 24, at 7:15 p.m. on the BDHHS Instagram Live @BloomfieldHDNJ. Viewers who follow the BDHHS Instagram page will […]