Irvington High School’s new principal doesn’t drink or smoke. “Coaching is my vice,” Principal Darnel Mangan said. “Coaching is the vehicle that drove me here.” Mangan is almost certainly the first person ever kicked out of an Irvington public school as a student to return and become principal of a school in the district. He […]
IRVINGTON — A section of Eastern Parkway will be ceremonially renamed in honor of an Essex County businessman who became a minister, founded a church and served as chaplain for municipal employees. “It would mean a lot to my grandfather,” said Denise Hodges. “This is something pretty momentous. My family is coming from all across […]
The two firefighters killed battling a cargo ship fire in Port Newark were Essex County natives with one anchored in the Ironbound section and the other spending time in Irvington and surrounding municipalities. Wayne M. Brooks Jr., 49, was born on June 3, 1974, in Glen Ridge, but raised in Irvington, until his family relocated […]