MAPLEWOOD / WEST ORANGE, NJ — As two of the three winning schools in the U Got Brains Champion Schools competition, West Orange and Columbia high schools have each won a driving simulator from NJM Insurance Group. Of the 64 participating schools in the state that developed campaigns to address teen driving safety, CHS and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation will hold its annual Musical Celebration and Tribute to Nikhil on Wednesday, June 12, at 6:45 p.m. at Liberty Middle School, 1 Kelly Drive in West Orange. The celebration will feature performances by the students and instructors from the Music For Nikhil program. Doors open at 6:30 […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Following a week of activities from the Nikhil Badlani Foundation Youth Advisory Board at West Orange High School, on May 3 the foundation and school unveiled its new Traffic Safety Mural. The mural was the idea of Brett Zeligson, a WOHS junior and member of the Youth Advisory Board. He wanted […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation Youth Advisory Board hosted Safety Week at West Orange High School from April 22 to 26, educating students about driving safety with different activities during lunch periods and culminating in a mural that will be unveiled outside the Tarnoff Cafeteria on May 3. The WOHS students also […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. announced April 8 that the county is participating in 11 special partnerships to increase awareness about and help raise funds for the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, the Arc of Essex County, the New Jersey Children Alliance, STOP for Nikhil, The Valerie Fund, the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Advocates from the Nikhil Badlani Foundation Youth Advisory Board presented an interactive information session on traffic safety to middle school students at Liberty School on March 20 and Roosevelt School on March 27. With the support of the Nikhil Badlani Foundation, the NBFYAB was formed in November 2018 to provide teens […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation presented Gregory Elementary School with a $2,000 grant award at the PTA meeting on Oct. 10. The grant award was presented by Sangeeta and Sunil Badlani to Gregory Principal Makeida Estupinan. NBF had issued a challenge to West Orange public schools that the school team raising the […]
Community supports Nikhil Badlani Foundation, traffic safety, community music program at run
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Residents gathered at West Orange High School’s Suriano Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 16, for the eighth annual STOP for Nikhil 5K Run and 3K Walk put on by the Nikhil Badlani Foundation to honor Nikhil Badlani, a West Orange middle school student who died in a car crash in 2011, when […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Township and Essex County officials gathered at the corner of Alisa Drive and Pleasant Valley Way on Sept. 4 to cut the ribbon and flip the switch to turn on the traffic light recently installed at the intersection, improving pedestrian and vehicle safety on both roads. Located on the street that […]
PSAB discusses WO joining other towns to fight the legalization of marijuana
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Municipal engineer Leonard Lepore announced at the July 16 West Orange Pedestrian Safety Advisory Board meeting that the Main Street road diet will include lane, striping and parking changes to slow down traffic and increase road safety in the township. The project, which spans from Park Avenue to Tory Corner on […]