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Newark community looks out for the HUBB
Al-Tariq Best was riding high, planning for the summer program and other events at the HUBB, the Help Us Become Better Community Empowerment Center on Prince...
Newark Public Schools Announces High School-Wide Listen of Trevor Noah’s Audible...
NEWARK, N.J.-Newark Public Schools and Audible, Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of digital spoken-word entertainment, today announced that all Newark Public Schools...
WORD CUP 2016
Man pays for 1,500 Newark residents to go to Six Flags
NEWARK -
A man has given back in a big way to more than 1,000 people...
Palmieri’s new challenge: Deputy mayor tasked with growing Newark the right way
By Anjalee Khemlani
Q&A
John Palmieri was named Newark’s deputy mayor for economic growth, transportation and infrastructure at...
Essex County College Taken Off Probation
By Rebecca Panico
NEWARK, NJ - Essex County College was taken off probation by the region’s...
WRC Rally Cup
Newark Police Officers Honored for Bravery, Valor
By Heather Kays
Newark, NJ—Members of the Police Division were presented with awards Friday for outstanding...
Driverless cars? Ride sharing? Why Newark is in great position to benefit from coming ‘transportation transformation’
By Tom Bergeron
The transportation infrastructure in Newark is extensive — and certainly greater than any other...
Welcome to Newark’s Citizen Virtual Patrol
https://www.facebook.com/CityofNewark/videos/885932314946889/
Did you know that you can help our Department of Public Safety reduce crime in...
CYCLING TOUR
Newark Mayor: ‘We need a local strategy that has a global view’
NEWARK, NJ - Mayor Ras Baraka’s second inaugural address took on both local and national issues after he was sworn in for a second term...
20 ‘Mini-Soccer’ Courts Coming To Newark
By Eric Kiefer
NEWARK, NJ — The New York Red Bulls, Newark Public Schools and the U.S. Soccer Foundation recently unveiled a new initiative aimed at...
NJ Devils Partner with City Hall to Renovate Newark Ice Rink
By Jared Kofsky
When most Newarkers think of an ice rink in their city, the Prudential Center comes to mind. Built in 2007, the arena in...
Welcome to Newark’s Citizen Virtual Patrol
https://www.facebook.com/CityofNewark/videos/885932314946889/
Did you know that you can help our Department of Public Safety reduce crime in the city by using the Citizen Virtual Patrol system?...
Blind Divas shine a light for us to follow
By Barry Carter
Tara Invidiato couldn't see the audience. She couldn't hear them, either.
But Invidiato, who is deaf and blind, could feel their presence Saturday during...
TENNIS
When states take over school districts, they say it’s about academics....
By Matt Barnum
Debates about states taking over school districts are often deeply fraught.
“The right to vote to select your own representation is a right...
Philip Roth’s Newark, the Hometown He Never Really Left
By Joseph Berger
NEWARK — Roberta Harrington, a retired nurse of the same vintage as Philip Roth, remembers a visit a year ago by Mr....
LATEST ARTICLES
CLEAN SWEEP FOR TEAM BARAKA WITH McIVER, McCALLUM AND AMADOR RUNOFF WIN
By Karen Yi
Two incumbent Newark City Council members and a newcomer -- who all ran with the support of Mayor Ras Baraka -- won their respective races in Tuesday's runoff elections, and will serve four-year terms...
Pride of Newark
By W. Raymond Ollwerther Princeton Alumni Weekly
Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker
David Kelly Crow
When Jordan Thomas ’18 met with Sen. Cory Booker after Booker’s Class Day address, the two had plenty in common...
Nurse Practitioner from South Orange Honored for HIV/AIDS Work in Newark
By Rebecca Panico
NEWARK, NJ - Peter Oates was working as a private nurse for Princess Diana’s father in England, but left when he was offered a job in the 1980s at San Francisco General...
Rafael Holdings to Ring the NYSE Opening Bell
NEWARK, N.J., July 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chairman and CEO of Rafael Holdings, Inc., (NYSE American: RFL), Howard Jonas, will ring the NYSE Opening Bell® on behalf of the Company at 9:30 this morning, Friday, July 6th.
Rafael Holdings was spun-off...
Newark curfew for unaccompanied minors takes effect Friday
Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose announce that beginning today, Friday, July 6th 2018 through Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd, 2018, the City of Newark will enforce its Summer...
Homeless shelter that closed in sweltering heat reopens (for now)
By Karen Yi
The Newark homeless shelter that shut its doors on Monday has reopened thanks to funding from private donors that will allow the facility to operate through the end of the month, city officials said.
The announcement comes...
NJ Devils Partner with City Hall to Renovate Newark Ice Rink
By Jared Kofsky
When most Newarkers think of an ice rink in their city, the Prudential Center comes to mind. Built in 2007, the arena in Downtown Newark is home to the New Jersey Devils hockey...
HOMEGROWN EDUCATOR CHARTING NEW COURSE FOR NEWARK SCHOOLS
Roger León, the ultimate Brick City insider, gets chance to chart course for school district as era of state control has ended
Credit: Chalkbeat/Patrick Wall
Newark's new superintendent, Roger León, at a graduation ceremony in...
Essex County College Taken Off Probation
By Rebecca Panico
NEWARK, NJ - Essex County College was taken off probation by the region’s higher education accrediting agency.
The community college was put on probation last year by Middle States Commission of Higher Education...
Newark, ‘The Brick City,’ Is The Hub Of The Internet
BY Steve Lubetkin
The Newark data infrastructure now is the envy of many locations around the country, featuring 10 gigabit-per-second speed, one of the fastest urban data networks.
NEWARK, NJ—If someone asked you to identify the hub...











































