In 2023, approximately 2.5 local newspapers shut down each week. This national downhill trend has continued in 2024 and is hitting home in New Jersey. Decisions made by the Newark Morning Ledger Co. and NJ Advance Media have led to the print closures and full closures of multiple local New Jersey news outlets.

About 15 members of the Major Taylor Cycling Club of New Jersey met up on a recent Sunday morning in downtown Newark. They set out on an epic five-day, roughly 500-mile ride that ended in Montreal. Award-winning photographer Brian Branch-Price met up with the cyclists as they launched on the first leg of the journey.

More than a hundred community members gathered at the corner of Ivy Street and Tuxedo Parkway in Newark's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a street-renaming event in October. Locals, including friends and family members of Houston Stevens, made sure to give him his flowers while he is still alive.