West Essex News
By TAPINTO WEST ESSEX STAFF
September 8, 2024
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Caldwell scored all its goals in the first half and held on for a 3-1 girls soccer victory over Dayton on Saturday.Juliana Procopio scored two goals for Caldwell (2-0). Gabriela Moyano also had a goal for the Chiefs. Callie Mayes contributed one assist in the win.Aria Molinelli ...
CALDWELL, NJ – During Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting, former Councilman Henderson Cole requested the business administrator provide a periodic report to the public regarding the progress of renovating the newly purchased office building located at 80 Bloomfield Ave. The borough’s offices and the ...
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – West Essex scored three goals in the third quarter and went on to a 6-1 field hockey victory over Episcopal Academy on Saturday.Julia Conforti scored four goals for West Essex (2-0), which opened a 5-1 lead with three unanswered goals in the third quarter.Adelaide Minnella had ...
WAYNE, NJ – Max Garcia scored three touchdowns to lead West Essex to a 35-14 football victory over Wayne Hills on Friday night.Garcia, a senior two-way back, rushed for two touchdowns on offense and returned an interception for a TD on defense.His 2-yard run and Robert Warmington's extra point in ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Alfred Joseph Kopf, a retired former captain of the West Caldwell Police Department, died at 96 on Wednesday, Sept. 4.Kopf served the West Caldwell Police Department from 1950 to 1979. He served in the U.S. Army, providing support for the Korean Conflict from 1946-1948. His son ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell girls soccer team opened its season with a 4-1 victory over Newark East Side on Thursday. Mia Rodriguez scored the only goal of the first half with six minutes left. She also had an assist on one of the Chiefs' three second-half goals.Juliana Procopio, Addison ...
PARSIPPANY, NJ – The West Essex girls soccer team opened its season with a 3-0 victory over Parsippany Hills on Thursday.Brooke Balzano scored two goals for the Lady Knights, who scored all their goals in the second half.Ava Brignola scored the other goal, Jayla Walton passed for two assists, and ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – Caldwell committed three first-half turnovers, and Passaic Valley turned two of them directly into touchdowns on its way to a 34-7 football victory over the Chiefs on opening night Thursday at Bonnel Field.With Passaic Valley holding a 13-0 lead, Caldwell looked like it was ...
ESSEX FELLS, NJ –Essex Fells police arrested a Bayonne resident after a hit-and-run incident in the borough last weekend.At about 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1, Officer Gonzalez was flagged down by a concerned resident and made aware of a vehicle on Forest Way with significant front-end damage.
NEWARK – Two well-known philanthropists in Newark, and one key social services provider in the city, recently joined together for a TAPinto Roundtable focusing on the ways in which they are directly impacting the lives of those in need.The panel included Mary Ellen Harris, the president of the ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ -- The Caldwell boys soccer team will open its 2024 season on Saturday afternoon at Bonnel Field at 2 p.m. against Montville.The Chiefs posted a 9-11 record last season, and ninth-year coach Martin Rodriguez looks forward to the return of five returning starters from that ...
ROSELAND, NJ -- The band Super Trans Am will be giving a concert at the Harrison Complex on Friday night. The latest installment in the Roseland Summer Concert Series, Super Trans Am is a theme band playing arena anthems and chart-topping radio hits of the 1970s. The concert will begin at 7 ...
NUTLEY, NJ – The West Essex girls tennis team opened its season with a 5-0 victory over Nutley on Tuesday. Katie Holinstat highlighted the victory by winning in straight sets at third singles. First Singles Sienna Jacobs (WE)66 Alexis Fontanilla (N)11 Second Singles Brooke Kupferberg ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Despite its impressive size and multinational reach, Goya Foods is still a privately held family business; fiercely devoted to family, quality, and its Hispanic roots.“My first day with the company was in 1964,” recalls Robert (Bob) Unanue, President and CEO of Goya Foods. “Our ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ -- The Caldwell football team opens its season on Thursday night at home against Passaic Valley at 7 p.m., one year after winning its first nine games before losing in the closing seconds to Lakeland in the sectional Group 2 semifinals. That means that the Chiefs will kick off ...
MILLBURN, NJ — It was a regular Sunday at Goldberg’s World Famous Deli when Adam Sandler, his wife Jackie and their youngest daughter Sunny arrived. Owner Chris Kurzyna shared, “They came in and walked up to Yvonne (my wife) and she gasped in surprise and let out a WOW! She thought she was ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ -- Ruth DiGiovanni of Roseland took the oath of office during the West Essex Board of Education’s Aug. 8 meeting and became its newest member. DiGiovanni was appointed by the board to serve the remainder of Frank Perrotti’s term during a meeting held on July 17. Perrotti ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ -- Fairfield Mayor William Galese and Police Chief Anthony Manna thanked the community of Fairfield and surrounding communities and police departments in their support of Officer James Ciampi, who was diagnosed with cancer. At the Aug. 26 meeting of the Fairfield Township ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- The Union High School football team had about as difficult an assignment as a program can have for Jason Scott's first game as the Farmers' head coach. Union went on the road against perennial powerhouse Seton Hall Prep and lost, 34-0, on opening day Friday ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ -- Barringer's bus didn't arrive at Livingston High School until 7 p.m. Friday night. That was supposed to be when kickoff would be, but the Newark team's late arrival pushed the start of the opening football game of the season back 35 minutes. When it finally got under way, ...
OLD TAPPAN, NJ -- West Essex dug a deep hole in the opening quarter and couldn't climb out despite three good defensive quarters the rest of the way, as the Knights lost, 19-7, to Old Tappan on the opening night of the football season on Friday. Old Tappan returned an interception for a long ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ -- The Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched just before 9 p.m. on Thursday to Interstate 80 East for a motor vehicle accident with entrapment. Upon the arrival of state police, the entrapment was confirmed with the vehicle being rolled over and resting on its ...
The Caldwell-West Caldwell Board of Education presented the first in a series of presentations to the community of an overview of a referendum that will be presented to the voters in March 2025. The referendum will be presented as two separate questions. The first question will be for ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ -- Police in West Caldwell will be cracking down on drivers exceeding the speed limit. Chief of Police Dennis A. Capriglione, Jr. delivered that message in a Facebook post earlier this week. "Over the past few months, our West Caldwell Police Department has received numerous ...
FAIRFIELD, NJ -- The Fairfield governing body adopted the 2024 municipal budget at their Monday night meeting. The 2024 municipal budget will cost the average homeowner an increase of less than $12 a month, or $142.21 for the year. The budget is an increase of approximately 3.3 percent over last ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ -- The Super Essex Conference has released the schedule for the 2024 Caldwell High School girls' tennis team. The Chiefs will open their regular season on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at Glen Ridge. The first home match will be the next day against Newark Academy. (A) 9/04/24 4 p.m.
ROSELAND, NJ -- The Roseland Department of Public Works (DPW) noted that a significant amount of storm debris has recently been found clogging catch basins and storms drains, including branches, yard waste bags and trash bags. The borough issued a reminder notice to residents that its ordinance ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ -- The West Essex High School football team will open defense of its North Jersey, Group 3 championship on Friday night with a game at Old Tappan. The Knights' 10-4 record in 2023 featured a 14-6 victory over Passaic Valley in the North 2, Group 3 final and then a thrilling ...
ROSELAND, NJ -- The Borough Council recently gave its authorization to buy one new truck and two pickup trucks for more than $226,600 for the Roseland Department of Public Works. At its Aug. 13 meeting, the governing body passed a resolution to approve the purchase of a 2025 Freightliner truck ...
CALDWELL, NJ -- Caldwell police this week arrested a Newark man in connection with a check fraud case that had been under investigation for nearly a year and a half. On March 31, 2023, a Caldwell resident reported a stolen and altered check from the mail that was cashed by an unidentified ...