West Essex News
By TAPINTO WEST ESSEX STAFF
March 17, 2025
ROSELAND, NJ – According to an article on worldatlas.com, Roseland was named one of the top nine "charming New Jersey communities" to retire to in this area.According to the publication, Roseland "is the ideal small town that is still within easy reach of the big cities", that it "has one of the ...
VERONA, NJ – One victim was in critical condition Sunday evening, one night after four were shot in a parking lot in Verona.According to Verona police, one male victim, 41, remained critical at a local hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen, while the other three shooting ...
VERONA, NJ – Four people were shot in a Verona parking lot on Saturday night. According to Verona police, multiple 911 calls came in at around 11 p.m. reporting gunshots in Municipal Lot 1, adjacent to Park Place. Upon arrival, Verona officers encountered a large crowd leaving a party at the ...
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – Bob Fetterly, a resident of North Caldwell, will be inducted into the 2025 Bloomfield High School Hall of Fame. Fetterly will be honored at the BEF Annual Gala at Nanina’s in the Park in Belleville on April 30 at 6 p.m. Reservations to attend this event can be made ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ — Once again, in a championship game, the New Providence girls basketball team flirted with danger, but never succumbed to it.Threatened, but never rattled, the Pioneers held off a late charge by Glen Ridge to win the NJSIAA Group 1 state championship, 42-36, at Rutgers University ...
ROSELAND, NJ – Roseland students Michael Berger, Maggie Berger and Leonardo McCormick won the Grades 6-8 category in the annual Essex County Forest Friends Feeder Contest, in addition to winning the People's Choice Award.Participants were asked to create an edible, festive and unique wetland ...
CALDWELL, NJ – Mount St. Dominic Academy is making it easier than ever for students to get to the Mount with transportation options beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. With new routes designed to serve a wider range of students across North Jersey, the Mount is enhancing accessibility for ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Lisa Allen ran her hands back and forth over the surface of the wall-mounted plaything, determined to get its circles to light up. With some swipes of her hands, they glowed green. After a few more, they turned red.The sensory wall designed to occupy little ones that the Senior ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ – Fairfield police have arrested two Essex County men in connection with a case of mail theft last week in the township. Alioune Gueye, 25, of East Orange and Elijah Muhammad-Outen, 25, of Newark face multiple charges following an investigation that occurred on March 6.On that date, ...
ROSELAND, NJ – Roseland police recently announced the arrest of a second Essex County man in connection with a residential break-in last fall. During the early morning hours of Oct. 18, 2024, a residence on Ford Lane was entered by three unknown individuals in an attempt to obtain the key fob for a ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – By nearly a margin of almost 2-1, the voters have spoken and there will not be a new two-story, 16,000-square-foot field house constructed at James Caldwell High School. Question 2 proposed the construction of the field house at a cost of $15.4 million. A total of 3,297 votes ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Pool registration for the 2025 Season began on March 1. The early registration discount ends on Friday, April 25.The pools will open weekends only on May 24 and will be open on Memorial Day, May 27. The pools will open daily beginning on Saturday, June 21 until Labor Day, ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The West Caldwell Township council met last Tuesday and finance chairperson, Councilman Michael Docteroff, reported that the 2025-2026 municipal budget numbers "looked pretty good and ideas about how to get it down” were being discussed as they were close to finalizing the ...
CALDWELL, NJ – As we celebrate Catholic Sisters Week 2025, the Mount proudly honors Sister Peggy Ann Clinton, OP, whose 43-year journey as a Dominican Sister has been defined by passion, commitment, and a deep love for preaching, teaching, and fostering cherished traditions at Mount St. Dominic ...
CALDWELL, NJ – As Mount St. Dominic Academy celebrates Catholic Sisters Week 2025, which fittingly begins on International Women’s Day, March 8, and runs through March 14. The Mount proudly recognizes the profound contributions of Sr. Patricia Tully, OP. For nearly 50 years, Sr. Patricia has ...
CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell Borough Council unanimously approved funding for the renovation of 80 Bloomfield Ave., which will be the new home of the municipal offices and Caldwell Public Library, during last Tuesday’s meeting. Approval was given to authorize a contract with Bismark Construction in ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – No team is ever happy to lose a championship game.But if there were ever an occasion to sound an optimistic note in the face of a season-ending loss, it would be a team in the position of the Caldwell girls basketball program.Second-seeded Madison, with one of the top players in ...
MADISON, NJ -- For a third year in a row, Hoboken was left heartbroken in a sectional championship game.Mike Liddy's driving pullup jumper with :03 left gave Madison a 53-52 boys basketball victory over Hoboken for the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 championship on Saturday.Hoboken had trailed by six with ...
WAYNE, NJ -- When Chris Benacquista was an assistant football coach at West Essex (2001-2010), he learned quite a bit from then-West Essex head coach Dave Drozjock. The key takeaway, though, may have actually had nothing to do with football or coaching or x’s and o’s. It may, actually, have had to ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Isa Rosa, a sophomore at James Caldwell High School, is raising funds for breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) to help people with Type 1 Diabetes and to raise money for research to find a cure.Isa, who is 15 years old, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 6.“It is challenging ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell girls basketball team will be aiming for the program's first sectional championship in 29 years on Saturday in the North 2, Group 2 final at home against Madison.Tipoff at James Caldwell High School is 4 p.m.The last time the Chiefs won a sectional crown in 1996, ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Chris Benacquista has resigned as the head coach of the West Essex High School football team.Benacquista was the head coach at West Essex for 14 very successful seasons in which his program compiled a record of 116-37, a .758 percentage. He is No. 1 on the school's all-time ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ - Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an annual campaign sponsored by the National Eating Disorders Association. For 2025, the annual week dedicated to drawing the public’s attention to eating disorders began on Monday, February 24, and concluded on Sunday, March 2. The theme of this ...
CALDWELL, NJ – Mount St. Dominic Academy’s fifth cohort of seniors embraced their entrepreneurial spirit last fall at the annual LionWorks “Shark Tank” competition, hosted by the Leonidas Foundation. Two scholarships were awarded to the top teams, with TEMPACK taking first place and receiving a ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Top-seeded Caldwell is headed to the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 girls basketball tournament championship game after getting past fourth-seeded Bernards, 49-43, in the semifinals on Wednesday.Caldwell will host second-seeded Madison in the sectional final on Saturday afternoon at 4 ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ – With the passing of a new ordinance on Monday night, various fees in the Fairfield Township code were updated. Fairfield Business Administrator James Gasparini said that some of these fees have not been amended in 15 years. Some of the changes include the raising of permit fees ...
DEMAREST, NJ – The West Essex girls basketball team's season came to an end in a double overtime loss to Demarest, 67-62, in the NJSIAA North 1, Group 3 semifinals, but not before the Lady Knights made a dramatic comeback.Fifth-seeded West Essex (18-11) trailed by eight points going into the fourth ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Essex-Caldwell co-op ice hockey team's season came to an end with a 5-1 loss to Kinnelon on Monday in the semifinal round of the NJSIAA North Public Schools Co-op Tournament.Sam O'Hern's power play goal less than four minutes into the game gave West Essex (15-11-1) a 1-0 ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – A Caldwell girls' basketball team without a single senior on its roster played like a crew of seasoned veterans in dispatching of Becton Regional, 55-42, in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 tournament on Monday.The victory sends top-seeded Caldwell (25-3) ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell boys basketball team hadn't lost a home game all season.When the Chiefs finally did, it wasn't before blood had been spilled, last rites had been prematurely administered to their chances at least twice, and one final comeback attempt just missed on a 3-point ...