MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Front & Center for Performing Arts will present “A Chorus Line,” the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that remains a contemporary classic, at the Burgdorff Cultural Center, 10 Durand Road in Maplewood, on Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 2 and 8 p.m. The show follows a […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Academy of the Holy Angels student Breanna Hetzer, of Nutley, has been named as a recipient of the Sister Catherine Green Kindness Award in appreciation of her inspirational attitudes. Hetzer was honored during the Nov. 21 Thanksgiving prayer service at the school in Demarest for exemplifying the kindness for which Sister Catherine […]
TRENTON, NJ — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Kelly E. Levy, acting director of the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Response and Enforcement Strategies, announced Nov. 30 that the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program was awarded $1.4 million in competitive federal funding from the FY22 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program […]
NEWARK, NJ — New Community Corp., one of the nation’s largest community development organizations, has appointed Simone Gagneron as its chief executive officer, effective Dec. 1. She succeeds Richard Rohrman, who retired in 2021. Gagneron most recently served as chief operating officer at United Way of Northern New Jersey, where she led financial planning and […]
TRENTON, NJ — On Dec. 1, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs issued the report “Buying New Jersey: The Rise in Institutional Ownership of Residential Properties,” which examines recent trends in institutional homeownership and its impact on the ability of households to buy a home. The report was researched and written by DCA’s Office […]
Michael Juliano, 70, of Cedar Grove died peacefully at Mountainside Hospital surrounded by his family on Wednesday November 23, 2022. Born in Newark and raised in Bloomfield, Michael also raised his children with his late wife Carla (Serritello) in Bloomfield before relocating to Cottonwood, Arizona. He then returned to Bloomfield and eventually resided in Cedar […]
Nelson Parada passed away unexpectedly on November 26, 2022, at his home in Bloomfield, NJ. After graduating from Belleville High, he served his country as an Army Ranger. He then pursued a degree in architecture at NJIT. His natural talent and love of being an architect showed through all of his plans. He loved sketching […]
Carmine L. Colandra, 78, passed away on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Passaic, N.J. Arrangements by O’Boyle Funeral Home, 309 Broad Street Bloomfield. Condolences at www.oboylefuneralhome.com Relatives and friends were invited to attend the visitation on Monday. A funeral service was held at the funeral home on Tuesday. Entombment at […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Officials from East Orange, Essex County and the state were joined by residents and others on Monday, Nov. 28, for the historic groundbreaking ceremony for the Crossings at Brick Church Station in East Orange. The $500 million project marks a major investment in jobs, housing and scholarship opportunities for residents of […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Pelle Nogueira, a 2017 graduate of Glen Ridge High School who finished fourth in the 2021 Ashenfelter 8K with a time of 24:57.40, made a strong showing in the annual Thanksgiving Day race last week with a time of 23:52.17 and a third-place finish. Less than 6 seconds separated the first […]