MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Maplewood’s champion foil fencer Jack Woods won the Bronze medal at the 2017 Junior Olympics Men’s Cadet Foil A4 event in Kansas City on Monday, Feb. 20. The Junior Olympics comprised 284 foil fencers from across the nation, starting in th e pools with 256 fencers competing in the direct elimination bouts […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Earlier this week, 11 Jewish community centers received phoned-in bomb threats on Feb. 20. This comes in the aftermath of three waves of bomb threats in January, resulting in, through this most recent wave, 69 incidents at 54 JCCs in 27 states and one Canadian province in total. The West Orange […]
Dominick J. Ferrara III “The Chief”, of Bloomfield, entered into eternal life on February 13th, 2017. He was 78. He was the son of the late Dominick J Ferrara Jr., a World War II veteran, and Grace Tedesco. He was born in Newark, NJ and was a graduate of Barringer High School. He […]
Linda S. Chiusano, (nee Barcos), 59, passed away suddenly on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at home in Bloomfield. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral from the O’Boyle Funeral Home 309 Broad St. Bloomfield on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. The funeral mass will be offered at St. Thomas the Apostle Church […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Prudential Sea Turtle Recovery Center at Turtle Back Zoo officially opened Friday, Feb. 10. Essex County partnered with nonprofit Sea Turtle Recovery to operate the facility, which will nurse cold-stunned or injured turtles back to health so they can be released back into the ocean. Looking at sea turtles in […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As part of the leadup to the release of their new album, “The Great Collapse,” members of the band Fit for an Autopsy stopped by WSOU on Monday, Feb. 13, for a conversation with Assistant Music Director Nick Durant. The live on-air interview covered a variety of topics, starting off with […]
WEST ORANGE, – The Seton Hall Prep ice hockey team closed out its season, dropping a 4-1 decision to Bishop Eustace at Codey Arena in West Orange in the NJSIAA / NJ Devils Non-Public round of 16 tournament game on Monday, Feb. 20. The Pirates finished with a 9-10-4 record. Bishop Eustace opened the scoring […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School varsity cheerleaders returned from a whirlwind weekend in Orlando, Fla., competing in the National High School Cheerleading Championship on Feb. 10 and 11. As a result of their performances at the competition, they are third-place bronze medalists in the Large Varsity Non-Tumble Game Day and seventh […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Last fall, three synagogues in South Orange — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, Beth El Congregation and Congregation Oheb Shalom — set out to help resettle at least one refugee family and give them a new start in South Orange-Maplewood. The first family, refugees from the devastation in Syria, arrived in mid-January. Two […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Thirty-five members of the Women’s Connection of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel got together recently for an evening of stretching bodies and relaxing minds at a yoga and meditation event. Yoga instructor Jill Vacarro from Millburn led attendees in various poses and Anne Sussman of Mindful Meeting Place in Maplewood, who is also […]