EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange City Council and the East Orange Board of Education recognized every graduate of the Class of 2018 with a citywide graduation party in the Ampere Parkway section on Saturday, June 30. East Orange 5th Ward Councilman Mustafa Brent and his wife, Kareemah Williams-Brent, joined forces with his Councilwoman Alicia […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Mayor Ted Green introduced a proposed city budget of $145 million for 2018, with a 2.7-percent tax increase, at the East Orange City Council’s regular meeting Monday, April 9. Green said there are no layoffs, no deferred compensation for employees and no interruptions in services for residents and business owners in […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange City Council voted at its regular meeting on Monday, March 26, to extend acting Public Safety Department Director Sheilah Coley’s temporary appointment by another 45 days. “Director Coley got another 45 days in an acting capacity,” said East Orange City Clerk Cynthia Brown on Tuesday, April 3. East Orange […]
Photo by Chris Sykes East Orange Mayor Ted Green, left, and 5th Ward Councilwoman Alicia Holman hold up their electric candles during the candlelight vigil and moment of silence outside City Hall in City Hall Plaza on Monday, Jan. 15, at the city’s official inter-faith Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, which featured Michael Green’s […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The race to fill the soon-to-be-vacant East Orange 3rd Ward City Council seat currently occupied by City Council Chairman Ted Green — who is running for the post of mayor next week — has heated up in the final days before the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 7. On Thursday, […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held its 2017 Public Safety Professionals Celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Hall of Records in Newark to commemorate fire officials, police officers and first responders in Essex County for their selfless service. Freeholder President Britnee Timberlake began the program with welcoming remarks, celebrating […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange 3rd Ward City Council candidate Mayme Robinson’s attempt to succeed Ted Green as the ward’s representative got a boost on Thursday, Oct. 5, when the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFL-CIO District 1199J, endorsed her candidacy. “Our union, District 1199J and our Political Action COPE Committee […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Mayme Robinson is working both sides of the table at the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 7. She will be supporting East Orange Councilman Ted Green in his run for mayor, while opposing his Green Team running mate, East Orange Board of Education President Bergson Leneus, as the two vie for […]
ORANGE, NJ — According to former Orange Board of Education President Vernon Pullins, the recently reformed Committee on the Status of Men in East Orange is on a mission to “empower young men” and give them “a clear understanding of what it takes to be all that they can be.” Fittingly, COSMEO has been busy […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The city of East Orange and the City Council observed the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the foiled attempt on the nation’s capital that ended in an field in Pennsylvania by holding an Interfaith Call […]