West Essex Top Stories
By GUY KIPP
March 7, 2025
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 ...
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ – Five wrestlers from Caldwell High School and four from West Essex qualified for the NJSIAA State Championships at Atlantic City next weekend.There are 448 wrestlers in all who will be competing in the annual event at Boardwalk Hall.Among them will be:Matt Ruane, Caldwell (106 ...
ROSELAND, NJ – A contractor with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has alerted the Borough of Roseland that repair measures are being designed for a culvert conveying I-280 over Foulerton Brook in Roseland. The borough has announced that repairs will take approximately four ...
FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ – The West Essex girls basketball team upset Ramapo, 52-50, to advance in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 3 tournament on Saturday.Junior guard Madelyn Schlosser scored a season-high 21 points and grabbed six rebounds for fifth-seeded West Essex (18-10), which ...
CALDWELL, NJ – Mount St. Dominic Academy has earned the 2024 College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). This is the second consecutive year the Mount has received this prestigious honor.The Mount prides ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – An investigation led by West Caldwell Det. Daniel Potucek has resulted in the arrest of a 19-year-old suspect from Newark in connection with the theft of a motor vehicle a year-and-a-half ago.Jahquil Louis faces charges of Receiving Stolen Property, a third-degree crime, related ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell girls basketball team advanced in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 tournament with a 70-20 victory over Weequahic on Thursday.Addison Keenan collected 20 points, five assists, four steals and four rebounds for Caldwell (24-3), which took a 22-2 lead ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell boys basketball team knows that it won't be this easy the rest of the way.But the top-seeded Chiefs did just what a No. 1 seed is expected to against 16th-seeded Becton of East Rutherford on Thursday afternoon in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – The West Essex girls basketball team advanced in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 3 tournament with a 47-45 victory over Morris Hills on Wednesday.West Essex (17-10) rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit, outscoring Morris Hills, 14-7, in the fourth ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Essex-Caldwell ice hockey team advanced in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA North, Public Co-Op Tournament with a 3-2 victory over Park Regional on Wednesday.Ryan McInerny's goal late in the second period with an assist from Dante Gallucci have West Essex (15-10-1) ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – As the days draw near for the Caldwell-West Caldwell Board of Education’s March 11 referendum questions to be presented to the voters, a final informational session was presented during the board’s meeting this past Monday.With approximately 40 attendees, including coaching ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Sports Management students and members of the West Essex ice hockey team had the opportunity to meet Aron Augustitus, a video coach for the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday, Feb. 14. Augustitus, a West Essex alumnus, spoke about his journey through high school and college, ...
TRENTON, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a record $58.1 billion state budget with more than $1 billion in new taxes and fees, a continued commitment to property-tax relief, and a raft of socially progressive initiatives that may collide with what he called “the noise of chaos and confusion” of ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell boys basketball team closed out the regular-season portion of its season with a 70-38 victory over Parsippany on Monday night.Senior guard Joe Giannetta scored 15 points for Caldwell (21-3), which led, 33-18, at halftime.Brodie Cook finished with 10 points for the ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ – The West Essex-Caldwell ice hockey co-op opened play in the NJSIAA North Public Co-op Tournament with a 3-2 overtime victory over Tenafly on Monday.Patrick Devaney scored his second goal of the game in overtime to give West Essex (14-10-1) the win. Sam O'Hern, who had assisted ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Four members of the West Essex wrestling team won championships in their weight class in District 4 over the weekend.Nick Bastante (132 pounds), Reid Clausi (144), Benjamin Marques (157) and Carmine Masi (175) all finished first in District 4. They will be joined by five other ...
CRANFORD, NJ – Four members of the Caldwell wrestling team won individual championships at the District 10 Tournament over the weekend.Solomon Soriente won his second career district title at 138 pounds.Mike Mignone was the 215-pound champion. Anthony Barrett won the 132-pound title. Yankee Mabee ...
CALDWELL, NJ – Ryan San George, a resident of Irwin Place, addressed the Caldwell Borough Council and administration at its meeting earlier last week, questioning an ordinance that required single and two-family homeowners to pay a 1.5% fee on renovations to their owner-occupied homes. The ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Last week, West Essex faculty and staff attended professional development seminars and workshops involving artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications on education. After an introductory keynote address on the benefits and challenges of AI in the classroom, teachers had ...
VERONA, NJ – The Caldwell girls basketball team came away with a 49-42 victory over Verona on Thursday afternoon.Addison Keenan scored 18 points and handed out three assists for Caldwell (23-2), which has lost only one game since December. Keenan made four steals and sank four 3-pointers.Tea Fiore ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – The Caldwell boys basketball team reached the 20-victory milestone on Thursday night after beating West Orange, 64-46.Ryan Keenan scored 11 points to lead a very balanced attack for Caldwell (20-2), which had a nine-point lead going into the second quarter.Joe Giannetta finished ...