Our council has aligned itself with developers by approving extensive tax abatements, increasing population by approximately 1,400 new residents, and not requiring developers to make any improvements to the community.
A century-old industrial site that once served as a trolley station has been an eyesore in the North Ward of Orange after a fire tore through the station’s former waiting room. A plan to redevelop the block into a 136-unit apartment building —…
The husband of Council President Tammy Williams has been banned from Town Council meetings after an alleged public outburst. Councilman Rutherford, backed by witness testimony, claimed that Williams’s husband John McNair, a former Planning Board member, threatened him toward the end…
The first decade of the 20th century was an age of great optimism for Newarkers. The city had world-class beer brewers, one of the nation’s largest insurance industries, a far-reaching rail network, and a busy harbor. Another growing source of…
Once a month during the summer, The HUUB hosts an open market at 35 Cleveland Street. But these bags of produce didn’t come from some countryside faraway, nor did they sit on the back of a truck for hours to get here. Everything was grown locally.
