SOUTH ORANGE / WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Oranges were well represented on the Dec. 10 episode of “Chopped Junior,” when West Orange’s Leonardo McCormick and South Orange’s Arden Burns bested their opponents from Texas and Michigan to make it to the final round of the Food Network cooking show, where Arden took home the […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — “Fresh 12” has been hanging in the 1978 Maplewood Arts Center since Dec. 15, showing off the work of AP art students from around the county. On display at the gallery until Jan. 18, artists from Columbia High School, Arts High School in Newark, Central High School in Newark, West Essex High […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A fire tore through a home in Maplewood’s Hilton neighborhood early on Christmas morning, damaging the newly renovated interior and preventing the owner from moving in when she was planning to. Sandi Gedin inherited the house from her father and had just moved her belongings in. No one was in the house […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Chris Danuser’s script for “Mayflower” was never meant to be read by anyone, let alone turned into a short film. “I wanted to adapt a short story into a screenplay just for me, never to be seen by anyone,” the Maplewood-based writer and co-director said in a phone interview with the News-Record […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council approved a long-term tax exemption, also known as a Payment in Lieu of Taxes, for the developers of the Executive Drive property near the geographic center of town at its Dec. 18 meeting. The move begins a plan to relocate the West Orange Public Library and […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Township Committee heard the Maplewood Village Vision Implementation Plan at its Dec. 17 meeting, considering possibilities proposed by planners at the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs on how best to update Maplewood Village. No action was taken and the plan is not final; Mayor Vic DeLuca said committee members […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Upper School students at Golda Och Academy had a visit from New Jersey Attorney Gen. Gurbir Grewal on Dec. 19, and heard him speak about his job and how the Attorney General’s Office has responded to hate crimes, especially in the wake of a deadly shooting in Jersey City. That shooting […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The whiteboard in Niheema Malloy’s office says “Let’s do this.” It’ll be erased soon because she’s moving to a new office down the hall at the Maplewood Police Department Headquarters on Springfield Avenue, but the sentiment remains. Malloy became a captain in the department Dec. 3, joining Dawn Williams as the second […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Matthew Eng has a few more finals and three weeks at home before he gets on a plane to Thailand to spend two years there. The 21-year-old West Orange native will be a Youth in Development volunteer with the Peace Corps on Jan. 8, just after he graduates from George Washington […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange Environmental Commission Chairman Bill Haskins presented the South Orange Board of Trustees with the commission’s 2020 budget at its Dec. 9 meeting, outlining its plans for the year ahead. The commission asked the village for $10,500, which will be added to the $16,051.50 in grants it has either received […]