East Ward

NEWARK, NJ — As musicians young and old took part on Monday in a global celebration that raises music awareness otherwise known as “Make Music Day,” one local program in Newark’s Ironbound joined in focusing on the importance of bringing music to children in the Brick City. 

Salvation Army Divisional Music Director Nathan Power oversees more than a dozen ...

NEWARK, NJ — The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission will take another look at its plans to build a natural gas power plant at an existing wastewater treatment facility in the Ironbound, a project that has angered local environmental activists. 

When Hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused catastrophic damage to the Ironbound wastewater treatment facility, it experienced a shutdown lasting ...

NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Zoning Board on Thursday ruled that a challenge on an application calling for the construction of an industrial facility in the Ironbound was timely in its appeal, which local environmental activists are claiming as a small victory in an ongoing battle with the applicant. 

The ruling comes after a group of community activists, Ironbound Community Corporation, ...

NEWARK, NJ — Newark Public Schools District officials have laid out the financial groundwork for a new architecture and design vocational-technical high school to be built in the East Ward. 

District officials on Friday held a public hearing and entered into a $160 million lease agreement for its School of Architecture and Interior Design, planned to open in 2022. The school will be ...