By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
ORANGE, NJ — Six candidates vying for the three available seats on the Orange Board of Education in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 6, will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, at a Candidate’s Night Forum at St. Matthew AME Church on Oakwood Avenue, hosted by Oranges-Maplewood branch of the National Association for […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
ORANGE, NJ — The Oranges-Maplewood NAACP honored the Committee for an Elected Orange School Board for its leadership in the fight to successfully change the Orange public schools from a Type 1 district to a Type 2 district at its 105th annual Freedom Fund Awards Banquet at the Wilshire Caterers in West Orange on Sunday, […]
By Shanee Frazier Eweka on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, MAPLEWOOD, ORANGE, SOUTH ORANGE, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Celebrating the theme “Freedom is never granted, but won; Justice is never given, but taken,” the Oranges and Maplewood unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its 105th annual Freedom Fund Awards Ceremony on April 29 at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in West Orange. This year’s […]
By Editor on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
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 […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
ORANGE, NJ — According to at-large Orange Councilwoman Donna K. Williams, 2016 mayoral candidate Janice Morrell and the Rev. Anthony P. Johnson of the Committee for an Elected Orange School Board, the Orange Board of Education failed to meet the first filing deadline for paperwork needed to facilitate the change from a Type 1 District […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
ORANGE, NJ — The Committee for an Elected Orange School Board is scheduled to meet on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Oranges Seventh Day Adventist on Reynolds Terrace, ahead of the general election Tuesday, Nov. 7, that could decide once and for all whether or not Orange voters will […]