BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School cross-country team competed in the annual Nutley Pizza Invitational on Monday, Oct. 21, hosted by Nutley. The other teams in the meet were Belleville, Verona and Cedar Grove. The Essex County Championships will be Friday, Oct. 25, at Cedar Grove Park.
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The Bloomfield High School football team dropped a 42-14 decision to Livingston on Friday, Oct. 18, at Livingston to move to a 3-5 record on the season. The Bengals will visit West Orange on Friday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the final regular-season game. Photos Courtesy of Jerry Simon
NEWARK, NJ —The Golda Och Academy varsity boys cross-country team raced in the Super Essex Championships Liberty Division on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Branch Brook Park in Newark. They scored 122 points for fourth place out of 13 schools. East Orange Campus edged Caldwell HS, 56-57, for the Liberty Division title. Ari Jacobs led the […]
By John Tierney Special to the News-Record When Joe Tornquist was just about to take his turn as concertmaster of the Cali Music School Orchestra during his graduate studies at Montclair State University, all rehearsals and performances were suddenly put on hold. By the time classes resumed post-pandemic, Tornquist had graduated. So it’s all the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls soccer team hopes to make a strong run in the Essex County Tournament. The fourth-seeded Mountaineers will host a first-round game on Thursday, Oct. 17, against either No. 13 seed Columbia or No. 20 seed PayneTech. If the Mountaineers win, they will advance to the […]
Two Irvington residents were among those honored when the New Jersey State Conference of NAACP Branches held a luncheon recognizing military veterans on Oct. 12. The Rev. H. William Rutherford, a past state president, and Merrick Harris, a past Irvington NAACP president, were honored at the event held at the Princeton Crowne Plaza Convention Center […]
By Dana Fialkowski Correspondent MAPLEWOOD — A National Coming Out Day event was held Friday, Oct. 11, outside town hall. The event included speeches about the difficulties members of the the LGBTQIA+ community can face and the importance of being able to “come out.” There was a flag raising ceremony and free ice cream […]
SOUTH BEND, IND. — For the second week in a row, Irvington High School football fans got to witness former Blue Knights play against each other collegiately. Adon Shuler is a sophomore safety for the University of Notre Dame and Cam Richardson is a freshman defensive back for Stanford University. Notre Dame hosted Stanford on […]
NEWARK, NJ — Irvington’s own Jean Pierre Valencia scored a knock out in the first round of his fight in New Jersey’s biggest venue on Saturday, Oct. 12. The 24-year-old boxer had dreamed of fighting at the Prudential Center after watching world champions like Shakur Stevenson compete at the venue. Valencia finally made that dream […]
MAPLEWOOD — The township police and engineering departments have made changes in the wake of a car accident that injured two Maplewood Middle School students as they walked to school. A statement from the township said that the personal impact this crash had on the two students, their families, and friends is immeasurable and “it […]