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New Rutgers Housing Report Finds Alarming Increase in Corporations ...
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Annual Cherry Blossom Festival Returns to Newark This April With Series of ...
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Popular Restaurateur Melba Wilson Announces New Downtown Newark Location
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Newark Council Supports Suspending City Lukoil Gas Station Licenses
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War in Native Land Hits Home for Newark's Ukrainian community
By TOM WIEDMANN
May 4, 2022NEWARK, NJ — During the past three years Newark resident Deborah Smith-Gregory has been bombarded with daily phone calls urging her to sell her home.
“It’s been calling at all times of the day and night - both cellphone and landline. They say, ‘Are you interested in selling your property? We’ve been looking at your home, and we can offer you ...
NEWARK, NJ — The sight of 5,000 cherry blossom trees turning pink and white in Branch Brook Park means that spring has finally sprung in Newark, with the promise of an exciting series of events coming to the area in celebration of the 46th annual Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival.
Essex County officials announced the schedule of events for the festival, ...
NEWARK, NJ — Renowned restaurateur Melba Wilson will be serving up some southern comfort in downtown Newark as city officials announced Wednesday that her signature Melba’s Restaurant is coming to Broad Street.
The opening of Melba’s 550 will be held at 550 Broad St. later this year, according to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. The new ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark City Council unanimously backed a resolution urging the city government to suspend the licenses for local Lukoil service stations in an effort to support Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion.
"Today the City of Newark is standing in solidarity with a number of countries around the world who are supporting democracy by taking sanctions ...
NEWARK, NJ — The dozens of people praying inside St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark were far from their ancestral homeland on the day Ukraine was invaded by Russia.
But home was in their hearts as they looked into their souls for the faith to help Ukraine win the fight of its life.
"When we heard about this, we couldn't sleep at all. We've ...
NEWARK, NJ — Danny Castro was losing hope he’d ever see his fiancée and 4-year-old autistic child again, after getting deported to his native Nicaragua in 2018 in a series of events that his lawyers say should have never happened.
As was first reported by TAPinto Newark in 2018, Castro was plucked off the streets of Newark, a self-designated Sanctuary City, after ...
NEWARK, NJ - Vice President Kamala Harris lauded Newark’s lead service line replacement program during her visit to the city Friday, noting the program could set a precedent for other U.S. cities as the nation addresses its infrastructure needs.
“We are not here to talk about the crisis as much as we are to talk about the solution,” Harris said during a roundtable discussion ...
NEWARK, NJ — A Newark fire captain is dead while a retired city firefighter was hospitalized after their bodies were found unresponsive this weekend inside a Park Avenue firehouse.
Both individuals were found inside the firehouse, located at 269-271 Park Ave., Saturday morning, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens and ...
NEWARK, NJ — When businesses and schools across Newark were required to shutter their doors in 2020 in order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the pandemic dealt a heavy blow to the city socially and economically. To date, the city is still working to address the prolonged effects of the pandemic.
City officials have already begun to undertake a number of efforts to ...
Short Hills Mall has been teeming with holiday shoppers as well as some non-paying customers. On Wednesday, several men stole $4,000 of merchandise from Nordstrom just before 8:30 p.m.
Essex County police continue to search for four black male suspects who were last seen in a gray Ford Focus with New York license plates driving on I-78.
Police chased the car for some time and ...