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Essex County News
By LAUREN T. AGNEW
March 21, 2024
East Orange, NJ - County officials confirmed that Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being extended because the temperature is forecasted to drop below 32 degrees. Essex County is extending its Code Blue protocols from Thursday, March 21 at 8 p.m. to Friday, March 22 at 8 a.m. The Code Blue ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Mayor Spiller has announced that he won't seek re-election. Mayor Spiller, who took office in 2020 after serving on the township council, made his intentions known through a social media post on Thursday. In addition to his role as mayor, Spiller, who is a science teacher in ...
East Orange/Orange, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. highlighted improvements in East Orange and Orange during his 2024 State of the County Address at the Essex County Hospital Center on February 29th. The speech was an opportunity for the County Executive to share ...
East Orange, NJ - County officials confirmed that Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being enacted because the temperature is forecasted to drop below 32 degrees. Essex County is extending its Code Blue protocols from Saturday, February 24th at 8 p.m. to Sunday, February 25th at 8 ...
East Orange, NJ - County officials confirmed that Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being extended because the temperature is forecasted to drop below 32 degrees and there is a potential for a snowstorm. Essex County is extending its Code Blue protocols from today, Thursday, January 18th to ...
Essex County, NJ – Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being activated because the temperature is forecast to drop below 32 degrees and there is a potential for a snowstorm. Essex County is enacting its Code Blue protocols from Saturday, January 13th at 8 p.m. to Saturday, January 20th at 8 ...
NEWARK, NJ — If you can wrangle a Halloween costume onto your canine (good luck with that one) you and your pooch could be in for a treat. Essex County has scheduled its annual “Strut Your Mutt” Canine Halloween Costume Parade and Contests with the first of the three events to be held at the ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Montclair Councilor Peter Yacobellis has announced on Wednesday that he intends on retreating from public life. In an email to the community, Yacobellis said that he doesn't plan to run for town council again and will not be running for mayor. He wrote, "This is one of the ...
East Orange/Orange, NJ - The Essex County Utilities Authority (ECUA) will hold its fall Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Day on Saturday, October 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Essex County Fleet Management (Public Works), 99 W. Bradford Avenue, Cedar Grove, NJ. The ECUA Household ...
NEWARK, NJ – Funeral services for New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver will be Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where the Rev. Al Sharpton is to deliver her eulogy at the request of her family. The funeral will follow two days during which the lieutenant governor will lie ...
Newark’s Central Planning Board, reversing course on its prior denial, has approved Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon’s cannabis dispensary and lounge, Hashstoria — a budding business with three existing West Coast locations. The board on July 24 approved the application for the establishment at ...
NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Public Library’s Board of Trustees has appointed Christian G. Zabriskie as the city’s new library director, a job that has changed hands multiple times since 2015 after Wilma Grey retired as director after 46 years. Zabriskie, 52, started in his new $180,000 post on ...
ORANGE, NJ - Activist Lawrence Hamm, Chairman of People's Organization for Progress (POP) descended upon the campus of Seton Hall University (SHU) at the beginning of May, to join forces with nearly 100 students over the state of Africana Studies at SHU. SHU students and some community members ...
East Orange, NJ — Two more people died in separate Newark street shootings Monday, several bystanders were wounded, and a 14-year boy is clinging to life after gunfire erupted outside Central High School on Sunday, authorities said. Police say 41-year-old Latoya Miller-Kone, from Irvington, died ...
Scammers posing as the Essex County Sheriff’s Office are making fraudulent calls requesting money for “outstanding warrants,” the Essex County Sheriff said Thursday. Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura said his office was made aware this week of the fraudulent calls in which the caller identified ...
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. and RWJBarnabas Health President and Chief Executive Officer Mark E. Manigan announced a collaboration to increase and improve public health outcomes across the County. "We learned during the pandemic how beneficial it was to ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - East Orange Police Chief and Essex County Police Chiefs’ Association President Phyllis Bindi joined Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., the Essex County Board of County Commissioners, the Essex County Division of Community Health and Family Connections’ ADAPT ...
NEWARK, NJ — The new Essex County community center to be built in Independence Park in the city’s Ironbound will be named in honor of longtime Sheriff Armando Fontoura and his late wife Mary. County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced the naming of the new, 7,600-square-foot community ...
Former State Senator Ronald Rice, who held that post longer than most in New Jersey’s history, was honored by family, friends and community leaders at Essex County College on Saturday for his remarkable life in public service. Rice died on March 15. “Every single person in this room’s life is ...
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ - The environment was warm and inviting, and the walls were covered in beautiful artwork by the students at Roseville Community Charter School (RCCS). This K- 4 elementary school prides itself in teaching and reinforcing the CHEER values (Collaboration, Honesty, Excellence, Effort, ...
NEWARK, NJ — The Prudential Center is now ranked among the world’s Top 10 highest-grossing entertainment venues, named on 2022 year-end lists by industry standard-setters, Billboard and Pollstar magazines. Those independent rankings are Prudential Center’s highest since it opened in October ...
TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey's Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs (NJHVIPs) received a big boost on Friday, in the form of $10 million in federal American Rescue Plan funds. The programs launched three years ago using federal money with the mission of ending cycles of violence across the ...
EAST ORANGE/ORANGE, NJ — “I Say a Little Prayer for...” Dionne Warwick, the musical icon, six-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, and East Orange native is being celebrated in a documentary on CNN about her life. In the documentary “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over” ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - The Essex County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs has given a grant to Montclair Early Music (MEM), a nonprofit organization that uses music to bring history to life. The rich arts and history community in Essex County is a focus of the Division of Cultural and Historic ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Montclair officials have announced that a rabies-infected skunk was captured on November 24. According to published reports, the Montclair Township Health Department was notified by the NJDOH Lab that a skunk found on Godfrey Road had tested positive for the Rabies ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair locations have been added to this year’s Essex County historic site tour, officials announced. The 11 local historic sites will be decorated for the holidays and open to the public for a weekend tour, includes Essex County Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, Kip's Castle and ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - The saga of terrible accidents on Freeway Drive continues. In spite several requests from City and State officials for a remedy, life altering crashes continue to occur on the pair of State roads. Today between 2 pm and 3 pm, a car was in a collision and ran into a light pole ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ – This Veterans Day, the Montclair Township Animal Shelter (MTAS) will be launching its first annual Pets for Vets program, which will charge a $5 adoption fee for any shelter pet older than a year. This offer is open to active duty personnel and their immediate families, members ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ – Verbal abuse is what former Montclair Township deputy clerk Juliet Lee has alleged in a complaint filed against the Township of Montclair and Town Manager Timothy Stafford. According to the complaint, she also alleges hostile working conditions, age and gender discrimination, ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - New Jersey state officials have determined that Montclair High School's football team must forfeit all wins this entire season, due to what district officials called, "and administrative oversight." As a result, Montclair High School Mounties will not be allowed to play in the ...
