WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange police arrested two men involved in a dispute outside Heritage Restaurant and Lounge at 442 Valley Road in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 10, according to a release from the township. Officers responded to a call of shots fired outside the bar just after midnight. No one was […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Montclair’s Brian R. Sterling, a West Orange native, has been named to the board of trustees at Clara Maass Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility. Sterling is a principal and co-head of the New York-baked investment banking group of Sandler O’Neill & Partners LP. “Mr. Sterling brings both extensive business experience and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Senior Citizen Holiday Party will be Wednesday, Dec. 28, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Manor Restaurant, 111 Prospect Ave. in West Orange. Tickets will be sold from Monday, Dec. 12, to Wednesday, Dec. 21, from 9 a.m. until noon at the West Orange Office of […]
NEWARK, NJ — NJ Transit is prepared to do battle with Old Man Winter this season, according to a press release. Snow-fighting supplies and equipment across the state are stocked and ready to be deployed as conditions warrant. NJ Transit is busy inspecting and winterizing its infrastructure, equipment and stations to be in the best […]
RAHWAY, NJ — The U.S. Congress approved the Federal Water Resources Act of 2016 on Saturday, Dec. 10, and sent it to President Barack Obama for signing, according to a release from the Mayors Council on Rahway River Watershed Flood Control The act includes the authorization of the Rahway River Flood Mitigation Project as a […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — A special evening event, “#EndDemand: Fighting Sex Trafficking – Our Children at Risk,” was held in late November at Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston and featured a dynamic discussion with a distinguished panel of speakers. The panel helped to shine a light on the motivations of those who promote sex trafficking, what […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Life Source Church, a contemporary Christian church that opened its doors in the autumn of 2009 in Caldwell as a church plant of the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, has made its new home in West Orange. Life Source held services in the Caldwells and Montclair over the […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The annual Elks Hoop Shoot Free Throw North Central District Finals were Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Nutley Recreation Center. West Orange St. Cloud fifth-grader Gabriel Strassman took first place in the 10- and 11-year-old boys group. Gabriel advances to the state competition, to be held Feb. 12, where he will defend […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Another stellar season of competition for the West Orange High School cheerleaders continued with a first-place win in the Varsity Medium Non-Tumbling Division at the UCA Pocono Regional Competition in Kutztown, Pa., on Dec. 4. The win gave the team an automatic bid to the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship […]
Township comes together to ring in Christmas season with tree lighting, trolley tours, Santa Claus
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Christmas again came early in West Orange with the Downtown West Orange Alliance’s annual Holiday Open House and the recreation department’s tree-lighting ceremony on Dec. 3. Numerous residents visited the downtown area throughout the day for the Open House, which this year featured pictures with Santa Claus in various locations, a […]