WATCH: Parade closes out Newark’s annual Portugal Day Festival
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By Paige Gross
For NJ.com
Newark again celebrated its annual weekend-long Portugal Day Festival with a parade Sunday, closing a few streets for most of the day.
Every year,...
Xian Zhang Extends NJSO Music Director Contract
by BWW News Desk
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra today announces internationally renowned conductor Xian Zhang has extended her initial four-year term as NJSO Music Director...
Could Newark’s subsidized housing scheme for teachers become a national model?
Newark’s Teachers Village is offering lessons to places struggling with teacher retention.
The teachers, who make up 70 percent of the Jersey project’s residents and...
Set day of reckoning for N.J. half-rate sales tax program | Editorial
By South Jersey Times Editorial Board
Gov. Phil Murphy has restored a potential lifeline to five New Jersey cities -- Bridgeton and Camden among them --...
Founder of New Community Corporation and Newark institution Monsignor William J. Linder dies
By HEATHER KAYS
Newark, NJ—Monsignor William J. Linder, who founded of New Community Corporation in the wake of the Newark Riots, died Friday. He was 82.
New...
Newark police ask public to scan city’s surveillance-camera feeds
By Rick Rojas
The New York Times
NEWARK, N.J. — The camera perched above the bus stop sends back a continuous feed from the corner of...
Co-working Space Launch Pad Newark Hosts Ribbon Cutting with Mayor Ras Baraka
Over the past few years the number of celebratory ribbon cutting ceremonies in Newark has continued to grow, with each new business entrant into...
State lawmaker intervened in Newark’s superintendent search, its first under local control
By Patrick Wall
Newark’s recent search for a new superintendent was designed to be free from political interference. Then a state lawmaker got involved.
State Sen....
In Newark, DEA launches comprehensive plan for battling opioid epidemic
By Briana Vannozz
Pablo Pizarro, pastor at Assembly of God Church in Newark recalled, “I’ve walked into bathrooms where my mother had a bag stuck to...
Meet Audrey, she works in Mayor @rasjbaraka’s pilot program that hires homeless people to...
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