By NATALIE HEARD HACKETT
April 17, 2024MONTCLAIR, NJ - Police officials have released additional information regarding the ...
Essex County News
By NATALIE HEARD HACKETT
April 17, 2024
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Police officials have released additional information regarding the Montclair Police shooting that occurred on Monday. According to Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a police-involved shooting in Montclair, NJ ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Montclair officials have confirmed that a "shelter-in-place" order was issued today at several schools in response to reports of gunfire in the Forest Street area. The order was enacted at both high school buildings, as well as Renaissance, Watchung School and Woodman ...
Essex County’s Branch Brook Park boasts 5,300 cherry blossom trees - more than the nation’s capital - and starting Saturday, April 6, it will celebrate with its 48th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. For the record, East Potomac Park, in Washington, D.C., has just 3,800 trees, according to the ...
Belleville has again been recognized by a statewide program that examines and evaluates how municipalities encourage fitness, proper diets and the overall health and well-being of residents. Belleville, which proudly hosts a community garden to grow vegetables, offers several recreational ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - Essex County College (ECC) commemorated the life and impactful legacy of the late New Jersey Senator Ronald L. Rice, Sr. during a poignant ceremony held on March 21. The highlight of the event was the renaming of the college's Public Safety Department in honor of Senator Rice, a ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Elizabeth Tartakovsky, a Livingston High School Class of 2018 graduate and recent Harvard alumna, is heading to Paris this summer after qualifying to represent Team USA at the 2024 Olympic Games as a fencer in the Women’s Saber Individual & Team event. According to USA ...
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ - In response to the ongoing challenges of food insecurity and the financial strain caused by inflation, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced the organization of a Spring Emergency Food Distribution Event. Aimed at supporting families in need, the event will ...
MAPLEWOOD, NJ -- Frank Sanchez, the principal of Columbia High School, was arrested last Friday, March 8 on charges of Second Degree Felony of Child Endangerment and Simple Assault. According to a statement from Thomas Fennelly, chief assistant prosecutor for Essex County, Sanchez was put on ...
BLOOMFIELD, NJ--For any fan of The Sopranos, Bloomfield holds a place in their heart whether they even realize it or not. Anyone who watched the show clearly remembers the final episode where the Soprano family gathers one by one for dinner at Holsten's, a place that Tony claimed had "the best ...
NUTLEY, NJ - Around 7 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 14, 22-year-old Wiston 'Bebe' Perlaza and another pedestrian were struck by a motor vehicle near the Garden State Parkway overpass on Milton Ave. The Essex County Prosecutor, Theodore N. Stephens II announced on Sunday Feb. 18 that 42-year-old Dhkir ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Members of the Livingston community, including township employees, former mayors, school board members, representatives from various service organizations and more, joined the mayor and council in supporting resident Ketan Bhuptani as they unanimously appointed him to fill the ...
Essex County, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. and Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura announced the Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being activated because the temperature is forecasted to drop below 32 degrees. Essex County is enacting its Code Blue protocols from ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — A 65-year-old man from Newark was arrested twice in five hours outside the Livingston Mall on various charges on Dec. 30, according to Livingston police. The man, identified as Clifford Lawson, was first taken into custody at approximately 12 p.m. after an officer patrolling the ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo announced that a special Holiday Food Distribution will be held on Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 9 a.m. at Codey Arena in the Essex County South Mountain Recreation Complex, 560 Northfield Avenue in West Orange. The event is rain or ...
NEWARK, NJ — The new headquarters of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation will soon overlook Harriet Tubman Square in downtown Newark, the philanthropic organization announced. The foundation on Wednesday, Dec. 13, said that it will move its headquarters to the building at 550 Broad St. and that ...
NEWARK, NJ - The homicide rate in Essex County has dropped to its lowest level in decades, falling 27% in 2023. There were 57 homicides reported by local police departments in Essex County this past year, compared with 78 in 2022, according to a news release sent Friday from Acting Essex County ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - A recent incident unfolded at a Whole Foods checkout line in Montclair on November 13, where a complainant realized her iPhone was stolen in a matter of moments. While checking out at the Montclair Whole Foods. a complainant momentarily placed her iPhone down while making a ...
NEWARK – It seems like a blink since Lucia Gallo was in eighth grade, sitting in the cafeteria at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark. The topic of discussion that day was the impending closure of the all-girls Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth and its plans to immediately shut down. It ...
NEWARK, NJ — A 15-year-old boy injured in a drive-by shooting outside of Central High School on Monday remains hospitalized in “stable condition,” according to police and school officials, who said an unidentified suspect fired into a group of students who had evacuated the building due to a ...
NUTLEY, NJ - Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrest of a 44-year old Nutley man following searches of multiple locations. Omar Rios was arrested for possession with the intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, maintaining a controlled dangerous substance ...
NEWARK, NJ — The John Ballantine House, this city and one of New Jersey’s oldest Victorian mansions, is to officially reopen this week after undergoing an $11 million face-lift that has kept it closed since 2022. An 11 a.m. ribbon cutting on Friday, Nov. 17 at The Ballantine House, 43 Washington ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- Essex County and RWJBarnabas are giving away 1,000 turkey and food boxes (while supplies last) at South Mountain Reservation Complex at 500 Northfield Avenue, West Orange on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 9:00 a.m. Please see specifics above.
Newark Penn Station will receive $59 million for improving passenger circulation — one part of a $4.5 billion package of federal funding that officials described as a historic investment in public transportation for New Jersey and the region. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, with state and local officials ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- Jarrett Seltzer, owner of the popular Bagels by Jarrett restaurant, stated that he will appeal the lawsuit in which the judge ruled in favor of West Orange. The township brought the suit against him because he has transparent window shades that were there when he moved into the ...
NEWARK, NJ — Police have arrested a 40-year-old woman for allegedly carjacking a vehicle with a 3-year-old child inside, according to Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé. The car theft triggered a region-wide Amber Alert for the child, who was found unharmed hours later inside the missing car ...
NEWARK, NJ — Gun violence has claimed the lives of two Newark men, both killed in separate shootings on the same night, after this city went six weeks without a homicide. The shootings, both on Wednesday Oct. 18th, happened in the South and West Wards, raising the city’s number of 2023 homicides ...
NEWARK, NJ — When it came to the updated law regulating local barbershops and beauty salons, City Council members cut right to the chase. The council on Wednesday, Oct. 18, approved a new local law regulating the hours of operation for local barber shops. An outdated regulation had prohibited ...
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 - The Montclair Police Department will maintain a heightened presence at all area institutions of worship, schools, and other locations with the potential for large gatherings, authorities stated Thursday. Despite the mounting death toll in Israel and the Gaza Strip, Montclair ...
NEWARK, NJ — Police have arrested 15 men and four women sought on warrants for an array of criminal charges including attempted murder, aggravated assaults and weapon offenses, Public Safety Director Fritz G. Fragé said. The 19 arrests were made within a 24-hour period, between Tuesday, Oct.
