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08/27/2026

CALLING ALL ESSEX COUNTY GIRLS! 🎉🎉🎉

If you are between the ages of 14-18 and ready to inspire your community, embrace your strengths, form long lasting bonds, and let your inner beauty glow. Delta GEMS is the perfect place for you!

Delta GEMS, Growing and Empowering Myself Successfully, is a hub for promising young women that provides:

💎 Compassionate mentorship from local community leaders.
💎 Important skill building in leadership, enhancing self image, increasing academic achievement, and financial success.
💎 Higher education, career building strategies, tools, and opportunities.
💎 Interactive and fun activities that build and maintain meaningful.
 
📌 Who can apply: High School Girls in Essex County
📌 Deadline to Submit: September 30, 2026
📌 How to apply: Use the QR on the flyer, click on https://bit.ly/45MdvdZ or visit  our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/MontclairAlumnae.DST
 

Join this impactful sisterhood where you can grow, dream big, build long standing bridges to sisterhood, success, and be a part of something greater. We cannot wait to have you!

03/18/2026

***SCAM ALERT: FAKE COURT NOTICES***
The Oakland Police Department has been made aware of fraudulent “Notice of Hearing – Traffic Violation / Toll Violation” letters being sent to residents.

These notices are NOT legitimate.

They may appear official and often include a QR code demanding payment while threatening court action.

Do NOT:
• Scan the QR code
• Click any links
• Provide personal or financial information

If you receive one:
• Do not respond
• Verify the notice through an official court or county website
• Report it to the Police Department

These scams are designed to look real, but they are not issued by any legitimate court.

Please share this post to help protect others in our community.
Borough of Oakland, NJ

02/02/2026

04/05/2025

04/05/2025

Assistant to the Administrator and Borough Clerk - OAKLAND BOROUGH, Bergen County.

FT position. Assists the Borough Administrator in the administration of municipal affairs and the Borough Clerk with the statutory duties of the Clerk’s Office. Duties include grant seeking and administration, social media and public information, website management, research on policy and organizational issues, special capital and internal projects, providing assistance to the public, preparation and processing of resolutions and ordinances, licensing, filling OPRA requests, records management and other duties as assigned. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with good organizational, customer service, problem solving, communication and computer skills. RMC certification or ability to obtain required. Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration or related field preferred. Submit cover letter and resume to Kathy Gurney, Confidential Secretary at [email protected]. EOE. Deadline to apply is Friday, May 2, 2025.

09/29/2024

🌟 Calling all teenage ladies! 🌟

Are you ready to make the most of the 2024-2025 school year? Our Youth Initiative is here to help you grow, learn, and shine! ✨ Join a community of young ladies engaging in meaningful, enriching, and educational activities that will inspire and empower you all year long.

📅 Apply by: October 15, 2024
🔗 Check the flyer for the application link! - bit.ly/sjacgems2024

Don’t miss this chance to be part of something amazing! 💫

05/24/2024

04/16/2024

Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), Harlem- born, multi-media artist, author, and intersectional cultural activist who chronicled the Black American experience, has died at age 93 at her home in Englewood, NJ. As the international art community and her admirers mourn, we send our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Ms. Faith Ringgold.

FROM Margalit Fox, New York Times, April 13,2024 :
"Faith Ringgold, a multimedia artist whose pictorial quilts depicting the African American experience gave rise to a second distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, died on Saturday at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 93.

Her death was confirmed by her daughter Barbara Wallace.

For more than a half-century, Ms. Ringgold explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media, among them painting, sculpture, mask- and doll-making, textiles and performance art. She was also a longtime advocate of bringing the work of Black people and women into the collections of major American museums.

Ms. Ringgold’s art, which was often rooted in her own experience, has been exhibited at the White House and in museums and galleries around the world. It is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the American Craft Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and other institutions.

For Ms. Ringgold, as her work and many interviews made plain, art and activism were a seamless, if sometimes quilted, whole. Classically trained as a painter and sculptor, she began producing political paintings in the 1960s and ’70s that explored the highly charged subjects of relations between Black and white people, and between men and women, in America."

12/27/2023

Turning the page on 2023 may mean your home insurance is about to renew. That’s a good time to do a quick coverage review and make sure you’re getting all of your discounts. I can help.