Belleville News

The Belleville Township Council voted Tuesday night to reduce the tax levy portion of the nearly $63 million 2013-14 school budget by $760,000, a decrease that did not satisfy one council member.The amount trimmed means the average household tax increase drops from about $270 to approximately $110, officials said.

Except the first word was something stronger than "forget." Understandable, given the fact that the Sandy in question was the hurricane that drilled and scarred the Shore.

A man is shown "casing" a store and walking outside an establishment he was about to rob, according to authorities.

A teachers aide at Sunnyside Academy child care center in Jersey City was in court again yesterday, this time via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny on additional charges of mistreating children at the facility.

Adner Oquendo, 35, of Florida was arrested and charged with eluding police, resisting arrest, and hindering apprehension on May 9 at 11:20 a.m. Police observed a blue 1997 Grand Marquis with Florida license plates being driven with no lights on, by a driver who was not wearing a seat belt.

Belleville's Board of Education meets on Monday night at the Belleville High School Auditorium.

From left to right, Sheriff's Detective Fitzgerald Figliuolo, Sheriff's Officers Dennis Kihlberg and George Sona, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura, and Sheriff's Officers Ryan Udvarhely of Belleville and Guiseppe Forgione pose at a ceremony hosted by The 200 Club of Essex County at Mayfair Farms in West Orange on May 9. The officers were all ... (more)

Belleville resident Mary Genzone, Branch Brook Cherry Blossom Club's treasurer, receives Essex County 's Outstanding Senior Citizen Award on Thursday at the Chandelier in Belleville.

A second employee of Sunny Side Academy child care center in Jersey City's Port Liberte has been charged with abusing a child entrusted to the care of the establishment, officials said.

The fate of the former Garden State Cancer Center property in Belleville won't be known until at least July, according to Essex County officials.

Berkeley College President Dario A. Cortes has announced a total of 11 Belleville and Nutley residents who are students at the school have been named to both the President's List and Dean's Lists for the Winter 2013 quarter.

Last month, Essex County Freeholders recognized two local students for setting examples to their peers.

Dressed in a bright orange prison jumpsuit, Tonic, 25, told Superior Court Judge Peter Vazquez that he understood the charges.

Belleville Fire Capt. Scott Wentworth said the Fire Department received a 911 emergency call at 11:37 p.m. about people trapped in a singlefamily wood frame house at 16 Hickory St., off Chestnut St., near the Nutley border.

Zinna was coming up for reappointment to another three-year term but, in a surprising development, the judge submitted a letter of resignation last month which was accepted by the governing body.

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Two gold rings were reported stolen on April 30 at 11:08 a.m. on Mill Street. A pair of 24-karat gold rings, valued at $1,000 each, was reported stolen from the bridal suite at Nanina's in the Park.

Belleville's School Board meets on Monday at the BHS Auditorium at 100 Passaic Avenue.

The man wanted in connection with the weekend shooting death of a Belleville man in Bloomfield surrendered to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday.

Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo and Gov. Chris Christie embrace at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange last month.