WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep cross-country team season officially came to a close on Saturday, Nov. 5, with the varsity squad competing in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public Group A race at Holmdel Park in Holmdel. Despite the challenging course, the team came in 12th, with gutsy efforts one […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Last Saturday, Nov. 5, the Seton Hall Prep football team broke a four-game losing streak, defeating Pope John XXIII (Sparta), 42-13, in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public Group A football playoffs at Brendan P. Tevlin Memorial Field in West Orange. Senior Darren Burton II […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls soccer team enjoyed a stellar season. The Lady Mountaineers, who won the Essex County Tournament title for the second year in a row and for the third time in the past four contested county tournaments, finished as runner-up in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Mark your calendar for Saturday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. That’s when Giants of Jazz, an annual jazz festival featuring nearly 30 performers, returns to the South Orange Performing Arts Center, 1 SOPAC Way, for the first time since 2019. Produced by Grammy-winning producer John Lee, this year’s 23rd event honors […]
NEWARK, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. dedicated memorial busts of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino in the lobby of the Essex County Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Building in Newark on Tuesday, Nov. 1. “We have named buildings and fields and created statues and […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey’s largest black-led arts and entertainment venue, has announced the appointment of Talia L. Young as interim CEO following the resignation of president and CEO Taneshia Nash Laird, who is stepping down next month after four years. With a background in government affairs, economic development and entrepreneurship, Young […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The award-winning West Orange High School Marching Mountaineers ended their competitive season on a high note. The Marching Mountaineers competed on Oct. 29 in the Bands of America New Jersey Regional Championship at Rutgers University, where they qualified for the finals competition for only the second time in school history, finishing […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School boys soccer team defeated perennial state powerhouses Kearny and Clifton to capture the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament championship. The second-seeded Mountaineers defeated third-seeded Kearny, 1-0, in the semifinals on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 2, at Lincoln Field […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep soccer team raised its record to 18-2 on the season and kept its winning streak to eight matches in a row, winning two matches last week in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public A North state tournament. As the No. 1 seed, the Pirates hosted […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The seventh-seeded Glen Ridge High School boys soccer team outlasted top-seeded David Brearley High School of Kenilworth in a penalty-kick shootout to capture the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state tournament championship on a beautiful Saturday night, Nov. 5, at Brearley. After the teams […]