By GABRIELLA DRAGONE PATERSON, NJ – As the guaranteed income initiative nears the end of its one-year pilot program, Paterson residents and families who have been fortunate enough to have been chosen to receive it continues to share the advantages and benefits they have experienced with the money. When Mayor Andre Sayegh first announced his
By GABRIELLA DRAGONE PATERSON, NJ - The Mayors Wellness Campaign has announced eight 2021 “Healthy Town” winners that are addressing food insecurity, supporting COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, and organizing programs to promote physical and mental health throughout their communities. The Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) is a program of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute
PATERSON, N.J. -- As we celebrate Women's History Month, a New Jersey pharmacist was singled out for her life-saving efforts during the pandemic. Dr. Jabeen Ahmed went to the homes of people who had COVID-19 to test family members and vaccinate people. Friday, the mayor of Paterson gave her the key to the city for
PATERSON, NJ - Paterson McDonald’s Owner/Operator Angela Adderley used the occasion of the grand reopening of her 160 Market Street store to present a $10,000 donation to further the music education of a number of the district’s student musicians The funding, presented to the Jazz House Kids Founder and President Melissa Walker will allow six
By GABRIELLA DRAGONE PATERSON, NJ – On Thursday, The New Jersey Department of Health joined Mayor Andre Sayegh to announce a partnership to get Patersonians boosted. Paterson has one of the highest vaccination rates in the State, yet, with boosters, Paterson and Passaic County are seeing slow uptake. This partnership is seeking to improve access
FAIRFIELD, NJ (Feb. 28, 2022) – In support of Paterson-based non-profit Eva’s Village, KearnyBank Foundation has contributed a total of $20,000 to help address an expanded need for services dictated by the ongoing pandemic. Operating on a three-block campus along Main Street, Eva’s Village helps thousands of men, women, and children by providing for basic
By Gary Phillips The children at Paterson Public School Number Five could see no trace of the stars that used to shine on the other side of Liberty Street. For more than two decades, the students only witnessed negligence when they looked at Hinchliffe Stadium through their classroom windows. Shattered glass littered the National Historic
By GABRIELLA DRAGONE PATERSON, NJ - An online fundraising effort is underway to help a Paterson student take a trip to California. However, for Leilani Fermin, the trip will be about much more than visiting the tourist attractions the West Coast has to offer. The 12-year-old student-author at Public School No. 16 is the only
By CBSNewYork Team PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — February is Black History Month, and part of that history comes to us from New Jersey’s third-largest city, via the Underground Railroad. CBS2’s Nick Caloway has more on a historian trying to preserve memories of the past. “There are 60 Underground Railroad sites in the state of New
Joe Malinconico PATERSON — A Mexican produce distributor currently based in Passaic has gained approval to construct a $6 million distribution center at a 7-acre site in Paterson’s 5th Ward. The company, GroMex, has been operating on First Street in Passaic for at least two decades and plans to continue running a wholesale business there.
