Thanks to a federally-funded Title III grant, West Orange residents ages 18 and older are learning English at no cost. This program, led by Felix Plata, World Language/English as a Second Language supervisor for the West Orange Public School District, has two objectives: to offer a supportive program for multilingual West Orange residents that develops […]
Frequenting the same artistic circles, filmmaker Rico James of Brazen Boy Films and contemporary American artist Scott Patterson struck up a friendship. Their camaraderie deepened when Patterson, who is known as The Me Nobody Knows and TMNK, relocated to a studio closer to the filmmaker’s Miami home in 2014. “We ran in the same circles,” […]
GLEN RIDGE — A book editor and a technology executive have been added to the Glen Ridge Public Library Board of Trustees. At the regularly scheduled Board Meeting on Jan. 10, Edward Kastenmeier and Marilyn Law were sworn in as trustees, following the approval by the Glen Ridge Town Council on Jan. 2. Kastenmeier and […]
An Irvington woman has joined the New Jersey State Board of Education. Mary G. Bennett, who works as an educational consultant/adjunct faculty at the Seton Hall University Academy for Urban Transformation, was sworn on to the board last week along with Jeanette Peña, educational director of special education and organizational accountability for the Union City […]
By Ashaad Evans Special to The Independent Press Food prices are on the rise but technology can help. Food apps like Flashfoods, Too Good to Go and Misfits Market give consumers options to get lower priced goods. Mitchell Perkins, who works as a cashier at Clifton Wine Shop, said he finds Flashfoods easy to use […]
Fannie Gordon was born Fannie Joe Neal on Jan. 4, 1924, in Stanaford, W. Va. She was the oldest of five siblings and she didn’t like the middle name “Joe” so she changed it to “Mae.” She graduated high school and got married at the tender age of 20 to John Gene Gordon, a coal […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — All boys and girls, ages 9 to 14, are invited to participate in the local level of competition of the annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition is being run by Regina Pacis Council No. 4066 and will take place on Saturday, Feb. 3, in the Our Lady […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The winter season has been a strong one for the St. Joseph’s CYO basketball program, which includes players from St Joseph and Our Lady of Sorrows parishes who attend CCD. Highlights from recent games include: The 4-3 sixth-grade boys team won the first game of 2024 against St. Joseph’s East Orange, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Soccer Club coach John Babula has been announced as a national winner of the Positive Coaching Alliance’s Coach of the Year Award by TeamSnap! Babula is one of only 10 coaches to receive this honor from nearly 500 nominated coaches throughout the country. “This outstanding group of coaches made an impact […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School boys and girls swim teams enjoyed fine showings at the Super Essex Conference/Essex County Championship meet on Monday, Jan. 15, at Jersey Aquatic Center in New Providence. The boys team finished third in both the Essex County team scores standings (153 points) and SEC team scores standings (154 […]