WEST ORANGE, NJ — The 12th-seeded West Orange High School girls lacrosse team lost to fifth-seeded Verona, 15-3, in the first round of the Essex County Tournament on Saturday, April 30, in Verona. Dylan Wilkes had two goals and Nyah McKinney had one goal. West Orange moved to a 4-5 record on the season. In […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School sophomore Makayla Rivera will receive a New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education for 2022 at an awards ceremony on May 26. Rivera will receive her award for a poem. She was nominated by the NAACP of the Oranges and Maplewood’s ACT-SO Program for the Humanities following […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep baseball team went 3-1 last week to raise its record to 11-5 on the season. On Monday, April 25, the Pirates hosted Livingston and defeated the Lancers, 10-5. Senior Chris Maldonado hit two solo home runs and scored three runs, while senior Ryan Sprock hit a two-run […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Chorale, one of the oldest community choruses in New Jersey, returns to a full concert program on Saturday, June 4, with its “With Grateful Hearts and Voices – Alleluia” concert at 3 p.m. at the Bloomfield Presbyterian Church on the Green, 147 Broad St. in Bloomfield. Selections of classical pieces, […]
Elizabeth Jones Crandall, MD of Maplewood, New Jersey and Shelter Island Heights, New York, died on January 31, 2022 of complications of COVID 19. She was 98 years old. A lifelong Maplewoodian, she was born at Orange Memorial Hospital on September 7, 1923 the daughter of Judge Benjamin Franklin Jones and Mabel Louise Stevens. She […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls track-and-field team enjoyed stellar efforts at the prestigious Penn Relays held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pa. On Thursday, April 28, the first day of the meet, the girls 4×100 meter relay team — Nadya Coleman, Taylor Aska, Kourtney Adams and Nicole Oshodi — took […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School baseball team is looking to make a strong run in the Greater Newark Tournament. The Cougars received the No. 8 seed and will host No. 9 seed Verona in the first round on Friday, May 6. Columbia is seeking to avenge a 2-0 road loss to Verona […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Virginius D. Mattia Memorial Committee has selected Silas Mountsier III as the winner of its 2022 Memorial Award for Distinguished Community Service. “Each year we have the difficult task of selecting one honoree from a number of outstanding individuals and organizations who have been nominated, but there is no question that […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The ninth-seeded Columbia High School girls lacrosse team defeated No. 8 seed Mount Saint Dominic Academy, 9-3, in the first round before losing to top-seeded West Essex, 13-3, in the quarterfinals of the Essex County Tournament. Susanna Knutsen had four goals, Kat Turi had two goals and one assist, Margaret McManus […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The fifth-seeded Columbia High School boys lacrosse team defeated 12th-seeded Nutley, 20-4, in the first round of the Essex County Tournament on Saturday, April 30, at Underhill Field. RJ Benn had five goals and three assists, Shane Knezovic had four goals and one assist, Cole Abel had two goals and two […]