Irvington High School alumnus Adon Shuler will be playing for the national championship next week. Shuler, a 6-foot, 200-pound sophomore safety, will take the field with the University of Notre Dame football team in the College Football Playoff championship on Monday, Jan. 20, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. The seventh-seeded Fighting Irish (14-1 record) […]
Turning Point Community Services is reconfiguring and expanding its Servants House shelter facility. Grants from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey and the Schumann Fund for New Jersey have enabled the organization to expand its services to include a Clinical and Supportive Services Division, alongside a new Housing Assistance Program. “This will help us make […]
An Irvington resident is accused of shooting a Newark resident and getting in a gunfight with city police officers. A-Jahada Amirah Bostwick, 26, of Irvington, allegedly shot Tyron Whitley, 38, in Newark, according to a press release from Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Emmanuel Miranda. The shooting happened […]
An Irvington man was among seven people caught up in a state-wide human trafficking investigation. Seven defendants were indicted in connection with two separate human trafficking enterprises in North and South Jersey, according to a statement from Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP). […]
IRVINGTON — The township held its annual Holiday Spectacular in front of the municipal building on Thursday, Dec. 5. The theme of the event was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and it featured the choirs from Union Avenue Middle School and Florence Avenue School singing holiday songs. There were also short speeches from the […]
Photo Courtesy of Essex County A color guard from Irvington High School played an integral role in the Essex County Board of County Commissioners annual Veterans Observance and Celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The county honored a veteran of the Army, a Marine veteran and Bloomfield Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 711 at the event […]
IRVINGTON — A ceremony was held Monday in Civic Square in recognition of Veterans Day. The Irvington High School band provided music and the Irvington High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps provided numbers with more than 100 students marching to the event from the high school. The Rev. Vincent Taylor gave an invocation at […]
Anthony A. Vauss Jr. defeated Yasmina C. King in the race for an at-large seat on Irvington Township Council. It was the only seat up for election in this cycle. Vauss pulled in 8,685 votes to King’s 3,076 to win the seat in the non partisan election. Vauss is the son and current chief of […]
The state attorney general’s office announced that it has reached an environmental justice settlement with owners of a gas station site in Orange and filed a lawsuit against owners of an unrelated site in Irvington. “Environmental justice means ensuring that no community, regardless of race or income, bears the brunt of contamination and pollution while […]
A groundbreaking ceremony was held last week for The Sankofa Enclave at Twenty First Street, a Black woman-led development that will offer homeownership, affordable housing, retail, and green space, representing a nearly $100 million investment in the township. The project aims to revitalize a blighted section of Standard Place off of 21st street. Fifteen two-family […]