WEST ORANGE, NJ — Anay Badlani, a sixth-grader at Edison Middle School, was named one of five winners in Scholastic Science World magazine’s Mars Writing Contest. As a prize, Anay received a signed copy of the book “Welcome to Mars,” written by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Science World is an educational magazine published by the Scholastic […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Board of Education accepted the resignation of Hazel Elementary School Principal Edwin Acevedo, effective May 9, allowing him to assume the K-eight superintendency in the Long Hill Township School District, located in Gillette. Acevedo has been an educator for 17 years and in the West Orange School District […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation, the Essex County Public Safety Academy and West Orange High School have partnered to create Traffic Safety Awareness artwork that will appear on NJ Transit buses beginning in May. The Nikhil Badlani Foundation was founded in 2011 following the death of 11-year-old Nikhil Badlani in an auto […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The township celebrated its 65th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade March 13 in downtown West Orange. Maureen O’Hara served as grand marshal and the deputy grand marshal positions were filled by Brian Aker, John Kevin McElroy, Michael Patrick Keigher and Tim Sexton. Photos by Steve Ellmore
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Education Association, in partnership with the New Jersey Education Association, will present a unique and valuable opportunity to see what kind of driver West Orange teens and their parents are on March 23 at the “Save Your Teen Driver” event in the Library Media Center at West Orange […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The professional engineer hired by the International Federation of Chaplains to inspect the former St. Mark’s Episcopal Church building following its New Year’s Day fire has revised his design plans for shoring up the structure, adding a few minor details at the request of the township. Guy Lagomarsino, the principal of Optimized […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Township Councilwoman Michelle Casalino presents registered dietician LaChell Miller of Village Supermarkets ShopRite with a proclamation for National Nutrition Month March 2016 at the March 8 council meeting.
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange has received a total of $440,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Program, an initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and administered through the Essex County Division of Housing and Community Development that provides monies to projects benefiting low- and moderate-income populations. That total […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Members of a local conservancy group are expressing disappointment that the latest concept plan presented by Garden Homes Inc., which is proposing to build 104 single-family homes on the 120.5-acre parcel of land it owns behind the West Essex Highlands condominium complex, is not in compliance with an agreement Garden Homes […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Public Library is asking the Township Council for an additional $200,000 in its 2016 budget beyond the minimum allotment the state requires of municipalities for library funding, but this won’t be possible in light of this year’s severe economic constraints, according to the township administration. According to the […]