Joseph J. Ruffalo Jr. passed away on Tuesday May 3, 2022, at home in Bloomfield NJ. Born in Montclair, he lived in Bloomfield and Belleville and various other locations. Joseph was a graduate of Bloomfield High School and attended Montclair State. He was a Bronze Star Recipient during the Viet Nam War. He was the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School boys and girls track-and-field teams, under head coach Terry Iavarone, clinched their respective Super Essex Conference—Liberty Division championships this spring. They each finished with 8-0 records. The Essex County Relays will take place on Friday, May 6, at Livingston. Photo Courtesy of Terry Iavarone
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School baseball team hopes to make a good run in the Greater Newark Tournament. The Mountaineers, seeded 11th, will visit sixth-seeded Nutley in the first round on Friday, May 6. The winner will face the winner of No. 3 seed Cadwell and No. 14 seed Montclair Kimberley […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School baseball team hopes to make a good run in the Greater Newark Tournament. The Ridgers, seeded 10th, will visit No. 7 seed Bloomfield in the first round on Friday, May 6. The winner will advance to the quarterfinals on Wednesday, May 11. Glen Ridge defeated Belleville […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood Garden Club members outside their greenhouse behind Town Hall this past Saturday, April 30, load a truck with club-produced plants destined for the club’s 85th annual plant sale. Four truckloads were sent on their way, carrying 8,000 plants to the parking lot of the Maplewood Community Pool on Boyden Avenue, where […]
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 […]