GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School boys soccer team, under head coach Brian Ianni, featured five players who earned all–Super Essex Conference–Liberty Division honors, as selected by the divisional coaches. Senior Jonathan Lee made the first team, junior Nathan Latifi and senior Oliver Peake made the second team, and junior Aidan Arnett […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Five Columbia High School boys soccer team players earned all–Super Essex Conference–American Division honors, as voted by the divisional coaches. Garrett Dyson made the first team, Malachy Meyer and Jaiden Wright made the second team, and Anderson Jimenez and James Van Varick received honorable mention. The SEC–American is the top division […]
ORANGE, NJ — The city of Orange sounded sirens in honor of former Fire Chief Rudolph Scott Thomas during his retirement ceremony from the Orange Fire Department on Saturday, Nov. 26. Joined by firefighters, family, friends and community officials, Thomas is the first African American fire chief to retire in the department’s 150-year history. Councilwoman […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — While the West Orange School District’s teacher ethnic makeup does not match the student ethnic makeup, progress on that front is being made. At the Nov. 21 West Orange Board of Education meeting, Joseph Vespignani, the district’s executive director of personnel and special projects, gave a presentation titled “Diversity Data and […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Gas Lamp Players will present the full-length musical “Elf” for its holiday show this year and its director, Kristy Graves, does not want anyone mistakenly thinking it is a shortened junior version. “It’s the adult main stage show,” she said in a recent interview with The Glen Ridge Paper. “We […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Law enforcement officials from Bloomfield will be cracking down on drivers impaired by alcohol or drugs as part of the annual end-of-year “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” statewide campaign. Beginning Dec. 2 and continuing through Jan. 1, local, county and state law enforcement officials will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School boys and girls cross-country teams featured runners who earned all–Super Essex Conference–Liberty Division honors, as voted by the divisional coaches. For the boys, Selamawi Dani, Sahli Negassi, Henry Pfeifer and Langston Siguenza made the first team; Adom Haile-Selassie made the second team; and Will Fifield and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Super Essex Conference announced its all-conference teams. From the Seton Hall Prep cross-country team, which was 8-1 on the season and finished fourth in the Essex County meet and fifth in the Super Essex Conference meet, the following were named all–SEC–American Division. First team: TJ Sparno, senior. Second team: Christian […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — In a year filled with challenges, the Holy Trinity–West Orange Food Pantry was able to provide more than 400 turkeys and Thanksgiving side bags to needy families via its distribution on Nov. 21 and 22, mainly due to the generosity of the West Orange community. “Don’t believe the naysayers that have […]
CARTAGENA, Colombia — Lt. Cmdr. Richard Moses, an anesthesiologist from Newark, assigned to hospital ship USNS Comfort, prepares a young Colombian patient for reconstructive surgery aboard the Comfort on Nov. 17. Comfort is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, […]