A Newark principal participated in a national discussion about what instruction will look like when schools reopen in the fall – the hottest topics facing educators today as they seek to balance the risk of live classroom instruction with the challenges on remote online learning.

Tameka Royal, a principal at Uncommon Schools North Star Academy’s Fairmount Elementary, was one of ...

Parents split on online instruction as prospects for fall opening shaky

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New Jersey’s seismic shift last spring to remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have ...

NEWARK, NJ — Following a decrease in enrollment and financial hardship in the wake of COVID-19, the Newark Archdiocese will shutter a handful of elementary schools, including two located in Newark. 

The Archdiocese said funding has been critically reduced since the onset of the pandemic and paid registrations for the 2020-2021 school year are also dramatically ...

NEWARK, NJ — The city’s elected officials are holding nothing back this week as a deal to consolidate Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJUH) in New Brunswick moves forward. 

Following Mayor Ras Baraka’s scathing NJ.com op-ed on Tuesday, city council members motioned to send letters to every board member at NJMS and Robert ...

NEW JERSEY - Effective 5 a.m. on Tuesday, August 4, a Statewide State of Emergency has been declared by Governor Murphy for Hurricane Isaias.

Do not be on the roads unless absolutely necessary, said Governor Murphy. All state offices will be closed on Tuesday and only essential employees should report to work.

"If you must drive, take it slow, use caution and leave extra time ...

NEWARK, NJ — Two years after a fire tore through the Field House at Riverbank Park in the Ironbound, Essex County officials and local nonprofits celebrated its reopening to the public as a community engagement and recreation center. 

SPARK, a local nonprofit that ran the cultural arts and learning program in the center prior to the fire, and the Ironbound Community Corporation ...

NEWARK, NJ — The city’s elected officials are holding nothing back this week as a deal to consolidate Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJUH) in New Brunswick moves forward. 

Following Mayor Ras Baraka’s scathing NJ.com op-ed on Tuesday, city council members motioned to send letters to every board member at NJMS and Robert ...

BELLEVILLE, NJ – A panel of physicians experienced in Maternal and Child Health will lead a virtual community conversation entitled “Pregnancy, Childbirth and COVID-19: What to Expect During and After Your Delivery.”

The event will convene at 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 and can be accessed by computer, smartphone, or telephone. 

The event ...

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New Jersey health inspectors have nearly cleared a massive, multiyear backlog of thousands of nursing home complaints in recent months, the state now says, and they have conducted infection ...

NEWARK, NJ — A wave of shootings and violence this summer in major cities across the United States is washing over Newark, leaving city officials and community arbitrators wringing their hands as COVID-19’s social fallout looms large. 

At least 18 shootings and two stabbings occurred between July 20 to August 3, according to officials from Newark Police Department and Essex ...

MONTCLAIR, NJ - A seven-year-old girl has been recognized by the Montclair Police Department after jumping into the pool and dragging her sister to safety.

Last week, Chief Conforti, accompanied by Deputy Mayor Hurlock and the men and women of his department, honored Ruby at her home.

Ruby realized her younger sister was in distress while swimming, and unable to get above water. She jumped ...

NEWARK, NJ — The oh-no moment came for T. Strong, CEO of Dirty Soles Footwear Group, when the factories in China that produce the shoes she manufactures stopped shipping her company’s product due to COVID-19 quarantine orders.

That was January, and by the time the virus began wreaking havoc on New Jersey and New York two months later, it no longer mattered that Dirty ...

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – April Scelsa’s story mirrors those of thousands of small business owners whose nail salons, coffee houses and nutrition supplement boutiques wouldn’t have been able to re-open in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic without a little help.

Scelsa used money she got from the New Jersey Economic Development Agency (NJEDA) to purchase masks, gloves, ...

NEWARK, NJ — Hoping to stop — or at least allay — some of the bleeding felt by small business corridors across New Jersey due to the global pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday announced rental assistance will soon be available to 64 municipalities, including Newark

In all, $6 million will be dispersed from the new Small Business Lease Emergency Assistance ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – We now know that the Rutgers football team is scheduled to begin its season on Sept. 5, 2020, by hosting Nebraska. Whether the Scarlet Knights are able to play that game might be another question.

According to the schedule released by the Big Ten Conference on Wednesday morning, Rutgers will then play at Ohio State and Maryland and then host Michigan and Penn State ...

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Answering the demand of activists across New Jersey and the United States at large, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office will mandate body-worn and dash cameras for all county police departments within a year, according to Acting Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II. 

The announcement came during July 15th's Use of Force Town Hall in Newark, where law ...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – A gunman apparently posing as a delivery man gained entrance to U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ North Brunswick home and shot her husband and their son on Sunday night.

The shooting, confirmed to TAPinto New Brunswick by a spokesperson in the FBI’s Newark Office, left their son, Daniel, 20, dead.

Salas’ husband, Mark Anderl, a criminal ...

EAST ORANGE, NJ – A $10,000 award for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the murder of Laquan Nowlin, 32, of East Orange was announced by Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II. The award will be paid by the Essex County Crime Stoppers Program.

On July 3, 2020 Nowlin was sitting in his vehicle at the intersection ...