By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Community Awards Dinner at the Wilshire Grand Hotel on May 9, honoring the hotel as the Business of the Year in addition to handing out awards for Educator of the Year, Police Officers of the Year and Firefighters of the Year. Philip […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — When 9-year-old Emily Rintzler’s Gregory Elementary School third-grade class took a field trip to the West Orange Town Hall, Mayor Robert Parisi told the students to let him know if there was anything they thought he should do in town. Emily decided to take him up on his offer. Emily and […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — At its April 24 meeting, the West Orange Township Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing Herbst-Musciano Architects and Planners to evaluate three of the five West Orange Fire Department firehouses to determine what renovations are needed and provide a cost estimate for them. Firehouses 3 and 4 will be renovated and […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Washington Elementary School celebrated Arbor Day on April 27 by planting two trees on the school playground — one dedicated to Gov. Brendan Byrne, a West Orange native who attended the school as a child and who died earlier this year, and one dedicated to Patricia Villarosa, a first-grade teacher who […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Residents ventured to Mount Pleasant Avenue on Sunday, April 22, to check on the status of trees planted last year at the “Rock,” open land that is maintained by the township and residents. To celebrate Earth Day, members of the Open Space and Recreation Commission invited anyone with gardening tools to […]
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WEST ORANGE, NJ — The annual Holocaust assembly at Roosevelt Middle School on April 18 featured a special performance highlighting the life and death of Anne Frank. Presented by the award-winning educational acting company “Living Voices,” “Through the Eyes of a Friend” provided a young teen’s vantage point of the Nazi occupation of Holland and […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Several senior citizens expressed concern at the April 10 West Orange Township Council meeting, after seeing the results from the Montclair State University senior survey at the March 27 meeting. The survey, paid for by a grant, was conducted and compiled by the Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council introduced the 2018 municipal budget at its April 10 meeting, proposing a total budget of $83,209,749 for the year. Nearly 64 percent of the operating budget will come from property taxes; the town will collect $52,982,824.98 in taxes — a nearly 2-percent increase, according to business […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange senior survey closed at the end of October, and the results were finally revealed at the March 27 Township Council meeting by the town’s health department and representatives from the researchers at Montclair State University. The survey, which was paid for by a grant, was conducted and compiled […]
By Amanda Valentovic on HEADLINE NEWS, WEST ORANGE
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council unanimously voted to eliminate street parking on Brook End Drive at its March 27 meeting, after delaying the vote at its March 13 meeting. Representatives from Alaris Health, located at 5 Brook End Drive, had asked the council at the March 13 meeting for the opportunity […]