The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has gotten final and complete approval from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the city of New York to move forward on the project to replace the aging Midtown Bus Terminal with a new facility. The FTA issued the Record of Decision following a federally mandated […]
Former Belleville resident Eugene DeGeorge met his lifetime goal by authoring his fourth book, “Sunrise/Moonset,” a goal he has had since he was in college and began writing his book ideas on a typewriter. This book completes all the writing and poetry that he has formulated into a novella and three books of poems. “Unlike […]
The Glen Ridge Public Library currently has a display of pastel paintings by resident Ellen Eagle. On view until Dec. 14 are 15 portraits and one architectural painting. Eagle’s work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, the Ming […]
NUTLEY — A fifth grader from Nutley’s Good Shepherd Academy, a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Newark, is sharing his talent and message with students across the state after winning an art contest sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. Adam Idrovo was one of two winners of the Partnership for a […]
ORANGE — The modernization of the two ballfields in Essex County Monte Irvin Orange Park in Orange has been completed. Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. announced last week that the fields had been completed while the work to construct a new community center in the park is ongoing. “The community relies on the […]
By The New Jersey Department of Transportation There were more than 600 crash-related fatalities on New Jersey roadways in 2023. We’re so used to seeing statistics that it can be easy to forget there are real people behind the numbers. So let’s reframe it. Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en español In […]
Local seniors had a Thanksgiving luncheon courtesy of Our Lady of Sorrows Church and the South Orange Elks Club. The luncheon was open to all seniors in the community and is a long-time event. Alison McInerney, a parishioner at Our Lady of Sorrows, said they go to three senior housing places around town to let […]
Leroy Williams was 23 years old and had only been in Vietnam for about two weeks when he died on Oct. 3, 1965. He was from Newark and his body was brought back and buried in Woodland Cemetery without even a gravestone. The site became covered over with weeds and a growing forest eventually took […]
Andrea Lyn Cammarato-Van Benschoten was born in Columbus Hospital in Newark and grew up in Belleville in the 1970s. “I loved it,” Cammarato-Van Benschoten said. “It was a primarily Italian-Irish neighborhood. We had a great street I grew up on. It was a time you could hop on your bike. No cell phones. No technology. […]
By Lurie Silberg Correspondent WEST ORANGE — Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, a venerable institution with deep roots in downtown West Orange, turned 110 years old last month. Mayor Susan McCartney proclaimed Nov. 10, 2024 as an official day of celebration, commemorated with a Sunday morning mass presided over by Archbishop of Newark, […]