Government

Subject to approval from the NJ Board of Public Utilities, NJ American Water anticipates completing the acquisition of South Orange’s water utility in the second half of 2025.

Current and former women elected officials wore white to honor women’s suffrage and posed for the now traditional annual group photo.

The fee will be included in the annual sewer bill and will be due by the last Friday in June.

Regarding the $4 million gap, Business Admin. Imani Moody said, “We have a conviction across all of the constituencies here to have this budget process be a success, and to get to a place where we’re providing a balanced budget and avoiding reductions in force and things of that nature by really being strategic about how we’re deploying resources.”

The bike lanes, which will extend the length of Parker from Irvington Avenue to Maplewood Avenue, could be under construction by late 2025.

The Maplewood Rotary Club has announced that it will bestow its Citizenship Award on…

“All those communities that were devastated by Tropical Storm Ida and by all the subsequent storms, they all relied on that obligation to do work,” said Township Committeeperson Vic DeLuca. “People spent money and they need to be reimbursed.”

“This memo would require that districts curtail programs aimed at supporting our students of color and providing a well-rounded education to our school community,” said DuVall Wilson. “We cannot be silent.”

Mayor Nancy Adams said the letter from the Dept of ED was trying flip the script on programs that sought to provide equity for groups that historically faced discrimination.

The Mexico City native’s work has included managing large-scale cultural heritage events at archaeological sites in Mexico, to commissioning artists for public art programs at The High Line in New York City.