Covering the arts and historic preservation in Essex County
This week, a hearing was held to determine whether a developer could overturn the village arborist’s decision to deny the developer a permit to cut the tree down.
The HPC only had 45 days since its last meeting to research the home and decided last week not to pursue landmark designation.
One neighbor is fighting to save the historic tree and she may have found an unlikely ally in the township's Historic Preservation Commission.
The restaurant industry is the second greatest source of food waste – behind households, in fact – and more and more establishments are doing their part to keep as much as possible out of landfills.
Forrest is a three-year-old Border Collie trained to chase Canada geese out of public parks. This is one of the non-lethal methods of controlling their population.
A Short Hills-based developer wants to clear thousands of trees in a vast forest on the western border of West Orange to build a 496-unit apartment complex. However, the developer withdrew its application for a flood hazard permit before the November deadline, leaving the future of this project up in the air.
Three hurricanes have clobbered Mario DeMarco's restaurant Basilico in Millburn since opening. Could using the Orange Reservoir make life easier for businesses along the Rahway River.
The act of turning on the faucet and seeing clean water fill a glass is a magic act that includes hundreds of technicians and a tangle of unseen infrastructure.
Residents of Orange Township are outraged over last week’s removal of well-managed, decades-old shade trees on Berkeley Avenue for the sidewalk construction project. The City’s actions have negatively impacted the area’s ecosystem and the overall look and feel of the…
In March, residents along Howell Drive got a letter in the mail that caused them to fear that the forest visible from their front door could be in danger of development. The fight to preserve this 120-acre plot of undeveloped land goes back to 1987.