By Charlie Brannick Special to the Chronicle When it was time for just hanging around, it was Timmy’s Luncheonette in my West Orange neighborhood for me. For some people, it was a luncheonette but the breakfast and lunch crowd had fallen off after Betty and Marie stopped running it. I must have been about 9 […]
The Lions Club of West Orange recently held their major fundraiser in the West Orange High School Tarnoff Cafeteria. Lion’s Club Director and West Orange Chamber Board member Roger Schneider got a lot of the credit for the event’s success. “Roger hand delivers invitations. He has the personal touch,” said Mayor Susan McCartney. “He’s […]
WEST ORANGE — Jackie Godown of West Orange spent most of her young life traveling from city to city, state to state, and even country to country. But when she first entered her apartment at West Mill Gardens, she knew she had found her forever home within the Essex County community. The decision to move […]
Jersey Mike’s Month of Giving raised $1.8 million for The Valerie Fund. The $1.8 million includes $1,364,871 raised during March from customer donations and the Day of Giving when Jersey Mike’s donated 100% of sales to the nonprofit. Also, on the Day of Giving, Jersey Mike’s Founder and CEO Peter Cancro announced the company would […]
WEST ORANGE — Optimum has announced the planned deployment of its 100% fiber-to-the-home network in Montclair and West Orange. The network will enable residents and businesses to use Optimum’s Fiber Internet, TV, and phone services for the first time. Optimum Mobile services have already launched to customers in both markets and remain widely available across the […]
There were stickers and a raffle but there was also a giant bunny, a boa constrictor, a python and an alligator snapping turtle at the Recreation Department’s Spring Fling event in the new library. More than 100 people were at the event presented by the Recreation Department and Mayor Susan McCartney on March 28 at […]
WEST ORANGE — Long-time West Orange resident Gilbert Seltzer thought he and his comrades had been given a suicide mission. The collection of artists, architects and engineers in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit during World War II in Europe were to take positions with fake tanks and sound equipment to make the German army […]
WEST ORANGE — A film about the difficulties an underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams for the future is the latest work and the directorial debut for a West Orange filmmaker. “His mother is an alcoholic, his dad is absent, but he uses his education to catapult himself out of the circumstances,” said […]
John Caplanis reached the rank of Eagle Scout, which is the highest attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. This event was formally commemorated on March 8, at the The Eagle Court of Honor for Troop 2 at the West Orange Elks Club. Caplanis, a senior at West Orange High School, moved through the scouting […]
WEST ORANGE — A celebration of the music of Nat King Cole was recently presented at Nia Fellowship Baptist Church by Community Concerts for Peace and Love. The evening kicked off with Bufford School of Music students, a local neighborhood music school, led by Greg Bufford. The Rev. Al Platt, pastor of the church, modestly […]