Central Conn. State softball star Eileen Purcell earns All-NEC honors

Central Conn. State softball star Eileen Purcell earns All-NEC honors

NUTLEY – Central Connecticut State University softball player Eileen Purcell was named to the All-Northeast Conference Second Team at shortstop. Purcell, a Nutley High School graduate, makes her first appearance on an All-Conference list. She obliterated opposing NEC pitching this season, finishing with a .453 batting average, good for second best in the league. Purcell […]

Hometown heroes to highlight Founders Weekend Festival

Hometown heroes to highlight Founders Weekend Festival

NEWARK, NJ — Newark Celebration 350 presents Newark’s local hometown heroes and international recording artists Faith Evans, Naughty by Nature, Cissy Houston and India at the Founders Weekend Festival Celebrating 350 Years of Newark’s arts, culture and community as one of America’s great historical cities, a free event at Military Park, 51 Park Place, Newark, […]

Singers to ‘pop up’ at TSTI

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Pop Ups — a pop duo that delights young children with their hand-painted sets, cardboard props and puppets — are bringing their unique show to Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel on Sunday, May 15, with a concert at 11 a.m. Brooklyn musicians Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, who have been nominated twice […]

OPINION: Positive effect of FairTax® on jobs, trade and government spending

Although the FairTax® — H.R.25/ S.155 — is a national consumption tax on new goods and services and government spending and will eliminate all federal taxes on income and investment, it also features a ‘rebate in advance’ also called a prebate, which is based on family size. Additionally, this column will explain the dynamic-positive effect it will have on manufacturing […]

Soon-to-be Seton Hall graduate makes mark in environmental stewardship

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Among Seton Hall’s Class of 2016 is Andriana Fragola, who will graduate with a degree in environmental studies and minors in psychology and anthropology. Her time as a Pirate has been marked by the discovery of her passion for protecting the environment and opportunities to put her environmentalism into practice. “I […]

Congregation Beth El welcomes new preschool director

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Congregation Beth El has announced that Danielle Hartwig will join the congregation in July as the next director of the Thelma K. Reisman Preschool. Hartwig joins Beth El from Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, where she most recently served as the curriculum and program coordinator in the synagogue’s Early Childhood Center, […]

Community Coalition on Race launches Shekere Maker workshops

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race has partnered with local visual and performing artist Ahmondylla Best to launch the 2016 Shekere Maker Project. The inaugural series will enable residents to learn the unique process of making a West African shekere instrument from start to finish, as well as how to […]

Ester C. Cuomo

   Ester (Renee) C. Cuomo (nee Makris), 94, passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at the Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville.    Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service at the O’Boyle Funeral Home 309 Broad St. Bloomfield on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment will  take place at Glendale Cemetery […]

Shed some tears over ‘Tragic Lovers’ at Maplewood concert

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Society of Musical Arts presents a free orchestral concert on Sunday, June 5, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Maplewood Middle School, 7 Burnet St. in Maplewood. The “Tragic Lovers” program will feature classics by Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Faure. For more information, visit www.soma.ar88.net or call 973-763-4939. Photos Courtesy of […]