West Essex News
By TAPINTO WEST ESSEX STAFF
November 6, 2025
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – West Essex advanced in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 field hockey tournament with a 7-0 victory over Montville on Wednesday night.Adelaide Minnella totaled two goals and three assists and Julia Conforti also scored a pair of goals. Jillian Breslin had ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Facing a football team in the playoffs that you've already beaten in the regular season can be a double-edged sword.That's the situation that the Caldwell Chiefs are dealing with as they prepare to meet Westwood on the road Friday at 7 p.m. in the second round of the NJSIAA ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex girls soccer team advanced in the first round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 tournament with a 2-1 victory over Hackettstown on Wednesday.All the game's scoring came in the second half. Madelyn Schlosser and Lila Hricko each scored a goal for West Essex (10-5-1), ...
ROSELAND, NJ – As the results of the Roseland Borough Council race are finalized, it appears that Republican Jean Perrotti and Democrat Marcelino “Moose” Trillo will serve three-year terms beginning in January 2026. Both Perrotti and Trillo are incumbents. As of 10:09 p.m. Tuesday, with all six ...
CALDWELL, NJ – The voters have spoken and the results of Caldwell-West Caldwell Board of Education’s referendum to fund a new field house at James Caldwell High School indicate the project will not be supported by the residents of Caldwell and West Caldwell.As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, with 94% of ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex girls soccer team has been seeded fifth for the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 tournament, which gets under way on Wednesday.West Essex (9-5-1) will play at home against 12th-seeded Hackettstown (7-7-3) in the first round on Wednesday afternoon.Senior Brooke Balzano ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex boys soccer team has been seeded ninth in the NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 tournament that begins on Tuesday.West Essex (7-9-2) will play at eighth-seeded Elmwood Park (9-8) in the first round.Senior forward Drew Cerqueira leads the Knights in goals with six goals and ...
ROSELAND, NJ – The replacement of the Condit Court Culvert over Foulerton’s Brook in Roseland has been completed. “This is the second culvert that the county has updated in Roseland and it shows the County Executive’s commitment to investing in our municipality. This was not a glamorous project, ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Jordan Rizzo, CME engineer representing West Orange Township, recently spoke about the West Essex Highland proposal. Princeton Hydro, commissioned by WeCare NJ, submitted a 43-page document on Oct. 5 to Dr. Robert Bagoff and the West Orange Planning Board, explaining how building ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ – Livingston had a halftime lead, but Mount St. Dominic rallied and pulled away in the second half for a 4-1 girls soccer victory in the Essex County Tournament championship game on Saturday.It was top-seeded Mount St. Dominic's first county championship.Second-seeded Livingston ...
CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell Police Department (CPD) added three new sergeants to its ranks by promoting police officers Kevin O’Neill, Jessica Luszcz and Justin Rizzo during Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting. Luszcz has been with the department since 2005; Rizzo joined the department in 2012 and ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Caldwell advanced in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 football playoffs with a 44-22 victory over Dumont.Nick Moyano scored four touchdowns for Caldwell (5-4), which had a 24-0 lead in the second quarter and a 44-6 lead in the third quarter before Dumont (7-3) ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – West Essex turned in one of its best defensive performances of the season in a 24-6 victory over Mendham in the first round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 3 football playoffs on Friday night.The Knights (6-3) got on the board on their first play from scrimmage after receiving a ...
(Updated at 3:50 p.m.) FAIRFIELD, NJ — Fairfield Road was closed early Friday afternoon between Horseneck Road and Kulick Road due to a structure fire. The Fairfield Fire Department was dispatched to a possible structure fire on the side of a local business.Crews from Ladder 1, Engine 1 and Engine ...
CALDWELL, NJ – The Mount St. Dominic girls soccer team has never won an Essex County Tournament championship or even been to the county final. Well, the Lions have knocked off one goal on their agenda and will be playing Saturday (Nov. 1) in the ECT final at Livingston High School, 1 ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – When the Caldwell football team opens at home against Dumont in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 playoffs Friday night at Bonnel Field, there might be a temptation in some quarters to dismiss the Chiefs' chances based on their .500 record.A friendly word of ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex football team will host Mendham in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 3 playoffs Friday night at 6:30 p.m.Under first-year head coach Dan Fulton, senior quarterback Jake Long has set a new standard at West Essex. Long has accumulated the most combined ...
CALDWELL, NJ – Architect John Schimenti, representing the owner of 315-317 Bloomfield Avenue, the former movie theater, presented a redevelopment project to the Caldwell Borough Council last week that will go before the Planning Board on Nov. 12. Developer Caldwell Holdings LLC., proposes to ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex Marching Knights took first place at the TOB Chapter X Championship Competition on Sunday.West Essex, which was the host school, also received the awards for best visual, the best music, the best guard and best percussion.The director of bands is Elise McAloon.
MONTCLAIR, NJ – The West Essex field hockey team defended its title, defeating Montclair-Kimberley Academy, 5-0, in the Essex County Tournament championship game on Saturday.It's the 14th ECT championship in a row for West Essex (13-5).Senior forward Adelaide Minnella scored four goals, setting a ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ – Fairfield students’ New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) test scores rose significantly this year. This was announced at the Fairfield Board of Education (BOE) meeting last Thursday. In mathematics, third-grade scores went from 52 percent in 2024 to 70 percent in 2025.
DENVILLE, NJ – West Essex rallied from a 13-point deficit in the first quarter for a 39-26 football victory over Morris Knolls on Saturday.Gaetano Iavarone scored two touchdowns and also passed for a TD for the Knights (5-3), who trailed, 13-0, before Jake Long's 56-yard TD pass to Iavarone on the ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Adam Sepe threw three touchdown passes to help Caldwell post a 27-13 football victory over Nutley at Bonnel Field on Friday night.Nutley (4-5) had the early 7-0 lead on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Brady to Mike Meisner with 7:31 left in the first quarter, but Caldwell (4-4) ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Top-seeded West Essex advanced in the semifinal round of the Essex County Tournament with a 7-0 field hockey victory over Livingston on Thursday.Adelaide Minnella and Jillian Breslin each finished with three goals and one assist for West Essex (12-5).Delaney Farrell scored a ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ – Audit manager Brian Ko reported to the Fairfield Board of Education that there is a fund balance of $9,020,262 at the school board's meeting on Thursday, Oct. 16.Ko, who represents Nisivoccia, LLP, stated that the school district did a good job of managing expenses. This, combined ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – ShopRite held the grand opening of its new supermarket in West Caldwell on Tuesday, Oct. 21.The new market at 900 Bloomfield Ave. replaces the market formerly located on Passaic Avenue in the township.A grand opening celebration will kick off with a parade in which a band led ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction Caeser Diliberto and assistant principal of West Essex High School Julian Hoebee last week presented the West Essex Board of Education with the Annual Assessment Report of the annual Safety Data System. A major change to ...
The West Caldwell council met this past Tuesday and awarded a contract to CMS Construction Inc., in the amount of $496,437 for the Pine Brook Stabilization project. Mayor Joseph Tempesta and the council members have committed to long-term and short-term remediation of multiple areas within the ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – West Essex High School junior Jusian Zakhary was officially approved as the newest student representative on the West Essex Board of Education at the Oct. 15 meeting of the West Essex Board of Education.Jusian becomes only the fourth student in district history to hold this ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The North Caldwell Water Department will inspect fire hydrants and flush water mains commencing on Monday, October 20 and continuing for approximately three weeks. All hydrant flushing will occur Monday through Thursday.The week beginning on October 20, hydrant flushing will ...