BELLEVILLE, NJ — Essex County recently announced that approximately $5.4 million will be distributed to 14 Essex County municipalities and 34 community organizations through the Community Development Block Grant program and the Emergency Solutions Grant program. Belleville received $334,760 for water main and valve replacement in various locations. The CDBG and ESG programs are funded […]
NUTLEY, NJ — In “1984,” acclaimed author George Orwell writes, “Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.” A lot of literary critics have spent decades debating this quotation, pulling in philosophy, religion, psychology and other literature. A new component has recently been entered into the debate: Nutley author Steve Terrebush’s debut novel, “Beyond […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley native Daniel Del Tufo and Julia Kallmerten took their relationship to new heights earlier this year, when Del Tufo proposed to Kallmerten atop the Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth, N.H. The two civil engineers met at the University of New Hampshire, where Del Tufo enrolled after graduating from Nutley High School in […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nicole Case, a junior, has been a member of Nutley High School’s girls bowling team for the past three seasons, earning a varsity letter all three years. As a freshman, she developed into the team’s No. 5 bowler, filling in for tournaments and seeing considerable action in league play. Last season she […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Pete Hackerick is a senior at Nutley High School who competes in the 152-pound weight class for NHS wrestling. As of deadline, he was 26-3. He began wrestling during his freshman year at Paramus Catholic and loved it. He became a starter but, after some matches with nationally ranked wrestlers, found that […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Township Council discussed two environmental ordinances at its Feb. 18 meeting — one that would ban disposable food containers made of Styrofoam and another that would regulate food vendors’ ability to offer straws, disposable utensils and individual packets of condiments. Both ordinances are scheduled to be on the agenda at […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley’s Cub Scout Pack 141 held its annual Pinewood Derby on Jan. 31 at John H. Walker Middle School, with 60 scouts racing their cars down a track to see which would cross the finish line first. The kindergarten-age Lion Scouts raced in the first heat before older Scouts took to the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council voted against moving forward with an ordinance to extend alcohol consumption hours on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at its Feb. 18 meeting. With a vote of 2-3, the members of the council decided not to add the ordinance to the March 3 meeting agenda. Council President […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Dennis Diken went to Seton Hall University for only one semester, but he’s happy to be returning to South Orange to play with the Smithereens at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on March 6. “It’s a really cool venue,” Diken, the band’s drummer, said in a phone interview with the […]
By John Demmer / Town Historian NUTLEY, NJ — Anyone who has known me for any period of time also knows how fascinated I am with the trolley that used to run through Nutley. It has been the subject of many hours of research and discussion. If there is one local thing that I regret not […]