Unfortunately, we will not be holding our monthly meeting in May. We will notify you of the next meeting date as soon as it is scheduled and hope to see you there. You can always reach us through email. Details can be found on our Contact page. Thank you.

A joint meeting of the West Orange Board of Education and the West Orange Township Council will be held to discuss the failed school budget.

May 17, 6:30 p.m.
West Orange High School
51 Conforti Avenue

If necessary the joint meeting will be continued on May 18 and May 19 also at 6:30 at the High School.

The next public meeting of the Valley Community Watch will be:
Monday, April 19th 7:30pm
Hazel Avenue School Gym

On May 11th, 2010 the residents of West Orange will vote to elect two Council members for West Orange.

The Board of Trustees of the Valley Community Watch is planning to invite the candidates to our public meeting. We have the pleasure to announce that all 6 council candidates have confirmed their participation in our Q&A meeting.

The following six candidates will run for the two West Orange council seats: Incumbent council president Susan McCartney, Victor Cirilo, Gerardo Guarino, Paul Krakoviak, Rodolfo Rodriguez and Jill Tekel.

The Board of Trustees will prepare a list of questions for the candidates, based on your input. If you had the opportunity to ask them a question, what would you ask?

Send your questions to Juan Pintado at vcw2000@aol.com

There is a monthly meeting this evening at 7:30pm in the Hazel School Gym. Hope to see you there.

The next public meeting of the Valley Community Watch will be:
Monday, February 22nd 7:30pm
Hazel Avenue School Gym

Agenda TBD.

The next public meeting of the Valley Community Watch has not yet been scheduled. Please check back soon for the next meeting.

Agenda also TBD.

Public Session:
Monday, Dec 14th. 7pm
Municial Courtrooon, 66 Main Street

A team of assessors from the Commission on the Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) will arrive on December 12 to examine the West Orange Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations and support services.

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Hazel Avenue School Gym
Monday, December 21st at 7:30pm.

The Board of Trustees of the Valley Community Watch would like to invite you to celebrate with us the end of 2009.

Joins us for some hot chocolate and cookies. Share some time chatting with other Valley residents, members of the West Orange Administration and the re-elected members of the VCW Board of Trustees.

We welcome any home baking you would like to bring. See you all there.

We will begin posting PDFs of  past meeting minutes soon. We will work backwards from the most recent meeting. We hope this will provide a resource for the neighborhood and an accessible record for future VCW leadership.