EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green originally planned to ride a bicycle instead of traveling in a public motorcade composed of police, fire and emergency service personnel, to put a new twist on the city’s National Night Out tradition Tuesday, Aug. 7. The motorcade usually visits cookouts, block parties and other events […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange experienced its own “Coming to America” moment straight out of the hit movie from 1988 starring Eddie Murphy on Friday, July 27, when Mayor Ted Green, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, Assemblywoman Britnee Timberlake and members of City Council welcomed Nigerian monarch Imperial Majesty Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi Ojaja […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green introduced former police Director Jose Cordero as the city’s new public safety consultant at a press conference inside East Orange Police Headquarters on Thursday, July 19. “I’m very pleased to make this announcement that Joseph Cordero, who is very familiar with our community, has agreed to […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green was the featured speaker at the kickoff for the city’s Summer Work Employment Program for eligible teens at Cicely Tyson School on Friday, July 6. “Here’s a young man who is standing here as your mayor, as the 14th mayor of the city of East Orange, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange City Council 5th Ward members Alicia Holman and Mustafa Brent joined forces with the owners of the Urban Cyclery Shop bicycle store on Central Avenue, East Orange and the Historical Society of East Orange to organize the All Ward Tour on Saturday, June 30. The All Ward Tour began […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — At large Councilwoman October Hudley represented the township well at East Orange’s Independence Day concert and fireworks display in Paul Robeson Stadium on Park Avenue on Wednesday, July 4. “All these areas — Newark, East Orange, Orange — they’re all my town. We’re all family,” said Hudley on Wednesday, July 4. […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington Police Division has gained three new members, formerly of the East Orange Police Department, who transferred to the IPD prior to former East Orange Public Safety Director Sheilah Coley’s resignation, effective Friday, June 8. One of those officers, Keishon Jonas, participated in the third annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Ted Green hosted his annual Father’s Day Breakfast at Langston Hughes Elementary School on Rhode Island Avenue in the 3rd Ward on Saturday, June 16, and his first as mayor of East Orange. And based on the reaction from the hundreds of attendees, which included fathers and sons, entire families, and […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Irvington was at East Orange Mayor Ted Green’s annual Father’s Day Breakfast at Langston Hughes Elementary School on Rhode Island Avenue in that city’s 3rd Ward on Saturday, June 16, by Ron Brown, an Irvington Board of Education member and the Essex County Improvement Authority commissioner. “Fatherhood is the cornerstone for […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers has been helping East Orange Mayor Ted Green search to find a new Public Safety Department director of his own, to replace former East Orange Public Safety Director Sheilah Coley, who officially submitted her letter of resignation Tuesday, May 29. While some municipal leaders and elected […]