GLEN RIDGE, NJ — For its fall play, Glen Ridge High School’s drama club is staging a murder mystery at the Glen Ridge Women’s Club. “Talk About a Murder!” is set on a talk show where various performers are slated to be guests. In the middle of the show, one of the guests is murdered, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – West Orange School District director of buildings and grounds Michael Cimmino and assistant director of building and grounds Nick Munoz presented an update about the district’s facilities at the Board of Education meeting on Monday, Dec. 6, the first time that they had been to a meeting in person after being […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – With the retirement of longtime South Orange tax collector Aderonke Zaccheus on Tuesday, Nov. 30, the village has a new one in Irma Weir. A veteran of the department, Weir also worked in Maplewood before coming to South Orange in 2013. “During that time, I served first as a principal tax […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – A World War II U.S. Army sergeant from Bloomfield was identified 76 years after he went missing in Germany, according to a press release from the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Monday, Nov. 22. Larry Wassil was 33 years old when he was reported missing on Dec. 28, 1944, in Hurtgen, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The lobby of the South Orange Performing Arts Center was under 6 inches of water when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through South Orange and the rest of the Northeast on Wednesday, Sept. 1, shutting down the theater just as it was revving up to reopen after being closed due […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The crime rate hasn’t gone down much in Lori Robbins’ fictional world. A year after the publication of her book “Murder in First Position,” a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York City ballet company, the Glen Ridge resident and writer is back with the next book in […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridgers ate their way through well over 300 donuts on the front lawn of Town Hall on Nov. 28 to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, the second time the borough has celebrated the holiday publicly. Glen Ridge Board of Education President Elisabeth Ginsburg lit the first candle on the […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood Education Association, the district’s teacher’s union, has reached an impasse in its negotiations for a new contract with the school district and Board of Education, and all involved parties will be meeting with mediators at the beginning of the year. The union has been working under […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council discussed the town’s noise ordinance and the possibility of banning gas-powered leaf blowers at its meeting on Nov. 23, prompted by questions from residents during the public comment portion of the meeting. Other towns in Essex County, including Maplewood and Montclair, have enacted bans on the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The number of Little Free Pantries in Bloomfield doubled on Nov. 21, when a new one was unveiled on the lawn of Brookdale Reformed Church. A collaboration between the church and Montclair-based nonprofit Northeast Earth Coalition, the “take what you need and leave what you can” concept is similar to the Little […]