LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Wednesday, March 30, at 7:30 P.M., Temple B’nai Abraham Congregational Learning presents a discussion on “Christie and Beyond: Unraveling the State of the Garden State” with journalists Tom Moran and Matt Katz. Moran is the editorial page editor at the Star-Ledger and Katz is an WNYC reporter and author of “American […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE – The Saint Joseph Celtics CYO basketball program sent nine teams into the CYO finals games the weekend of March 5-6. The championship games were played at a combination of Union Catholic High School and Jonathan Dayton High School. The Pee Wee Girls Celtics won the championship game at Dayton High School in […]
NEWARK, NJ — The city of Newark will be 350 years old in 2016. To help the city commemorate this landmark, the Newark Trust for Education is partnering with the Newark Celebration 350 Committee to support the launch of educational activities that will bring together parents, educators and students in celebration of Newark’s cultural, historical […]
NEWARK, NJ — Reaffirming his commitment to students and families in failing urban school districts, Gov. Chris Christie on Monday, March 7, visited with students and faculty of Uncommon School’s North Star Alexander Street Elementary School in Newark to see first-hand the groundbreaking work being achieved in charter school classrooms across the state. Working with […]
EAST ORANGE /BLOOMFIELD, NJ — As state legislators consider gradually raising New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, workers and advocates praised local elected leaders in the city of East Orange and Bloomfield Township for keeping their communities at the forefront of the fight for worker rights by guaranteeing a living wage for their […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Nutley Elks Lodge No. 1290 will host its sixth annual Wild Game Charity Dinner on Saturday, March 12, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Nutley Elks Lodge No. 1290, 242 Chestnut St. Nutley. Proceeds from the night will be donated to Nutley Elks Special Children and the James “Shamis” Reitberger […]
NEWARK, NJ — St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee Inc., organizers of the Newark St. Patrick’s Day parade, the oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade in New Jersey, announced on Friday, March 4, that John J. Farmer, Jr., university professor, Justice Alan B. Handler scholar and special counsel to the president of Rutgers School of Law-Newark, is […]
IRVINGTON – From Friday and Sunday, March 11-13, 11 members of the Irvington-based Jersey Heat Track Club will be competing in the 2016 USATF Hershey Youth Indoor National Championships being contested at the Ocean Breeze Sports Complex in Staten Island, N.Y. This fantastic group of student-athletes will be contesting 22 individual events and three relays […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Two Scouts from Nutley Troop 147 of the Franklin Reformed Church received the Catholic Ad Altare Dei Award at a recent Scout Sunday ceremony at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Scouts Alvaro Flores and Anthony Gola received their awards from Rev. Eugene J. Field, the Archdiocesan Boy Scout […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Jim Pond, owner of Jersey Mike’s Subs on Prospect Avenue, has chosen the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as the recipient for Jersey Mike’s March “Month of Giving.” Sean Squires, 18, is a senior at West Orange High School and an employee at the popular sub store. He also has cystic fibrosis, which […]