Showing posts with label East Orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Orange. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2018

11 year old Angel Riley Izraael is missing

New Jersey police are searching for a missing 11-year-old girl after she did not get on the bus for school Thursday morning.

Authorities said Friday that Angel Riley Izraael, 11, of East Orange, was last seen at 8 a.m. Thursday walking on Telford Avenue in Newark toward South Orange Avenue.

She is described as 5 feet 3 inches, 130 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and glasses. She was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and carrying a grey backpack.

She is asthmatic and may be in need of medical assistance.

Anyone with any information is asked to call police at 973-266-5000.

[SOURC: ABC NEWS]

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

NJ Gov Race: Murphy Picks Sheila Oliver as Running Mate

NJ Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy has chosen Sheila Oliver, the former speaker of the Assembly, as his running mate in this November's election, according to a source with direct knowledge of the selection process.

The first African-American woman Assembly speaker in state history, Oliver has more than a dozen years of legislative experience, serving in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature since 2004.

She also served on the Essex County board of chosen freeholders (county commissioners) from 1996 to 1999.

Born and raised in Newark, Oliver, 65, graduated from Weequahic High School before moving to Pennsylvania to earn a degree in sociology at Lincoln University, the nation's first degree-granting historically black university.

Oliver took her masters in urban planning and administration she got from Columbia University and put to extensive use in Essex County, where she works as an assistant administrator.

She previously served on the East Orange Board of Education from 1994-2000 and as its president from 1999 to 2000.

Oliver also serves on both the Assembly's commerce and economic development committee and the Legislature's joint committee on and equal employment opportunity.

As a woman of color with a long track record of helping Jersey's urban communities, Oliver as the Lt. Governor candidate could help Murphy connect his message of economic renewal to African American voters who may have cooled to Democratic politics in the post-Obama era.

[SOURCE: NJ.COM]

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

East Orange NJ principal works 43 years at the same school.



Henry Hamilton had a pretty good idea of what the answer would be when he drove to the pension office in Trenton three years ago.
He could earn more money if he retired, but Hamilton had a greater reason to keep working than collecting a sweet benefit package.
Nothing could make him trade in his love for teaching children or being a principal for 43 years at an East Orange middle school.
"They (pension office workers) were looking at me like I was crazy,'' Hamilton said
He didn't flinch then, and he's not budging now. Hamilton just keeps moving the the retirement needle forward as he continues leading Whitney E. Houston Academy, a top kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school in the district.
Talk about finding your passion. He's 77 years old and could have hung up his school bell at 62.  But money isn't everything for this principal. His students and staff are.
Read more: East Orange principal chooses students over retirement