IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School girls tennis team, under first-year head coach Kyle Steele, has been working hard this season and hopes to make more progress. Photos Courtesy of Felicia Laguerre Owens
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The annual Karen Centinaro Memorial Cheer for the Cure, featuring high school cheerleading teams in the Super Essex Conference, will take place at Foley Field on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. The event has been officially renamed this year in honor of Centinaro, the longtime, beloved BHS athletics administrative assistant who […]
The New Jersey Section of the Professional Golfers’ Association of America has announced its 2023 annual award recipients, led by Robin Curtis, assistant golf professional at Maplewood Country Club, who was named 2023 NJPGA Golf Professional of the Year, the highest honor for a PGA Professional within the Section. Curtis was elected to PGA Membership […]
Luisa Frey knew about signs from a young age. When she was 9-years-old, her oldest sibling was seeking out colleges—with the rest of the family in tow, including her mom and herself. At the time, The Beatles had just released their hit song “Let it Be.” When Frey’s family visited a chapel on the college […]
WEST ORANGE — An Island Giants Exhibit at Turtle Back Zoo featuring alligators and Komodo dragons in natural habitat-themed spaces has officially opened. “The new exhibit enables us to provide more indoor and outdoor spaces for our alligators and Komodo dragons and create a more dynamic year-round experience for our visitors to see the animals,” […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School boys and girls cross-country teams competed in week 2 of the Super Essex Conference dual-meet competition at Branch Brook Park in Newark on Tuesday, Sept. 19. For the girls, Mia Bressler ran 23 minutes, 37.70 seconds and finishes sixth of 31 runners; Adelaide Fuller placed ninth […]
An Irvington man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for stealing more than $237,000 in Social Security benefits intended for his deceased brother, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Silvano Chable, 54, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to one count of wire fraud. Judge Wigenton imposed […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School golf program has thrived for the past few years. In fact, IHS girls have shown a strong interest in the sport. Though there are more girls than boys in the program, girls-only matches have been difficult to arrange. But that will change, as the Super Essex Conference and […]
The East Orange, Bloomfield and Belleville School Districts will each be receiving about a quarter million dollars to plant trees. Marking Climate Week, Commissioner of Environmental Protection Shawn M. LaTourette, Sustainable Jersey and The College of New Jersey announced the award of $4.55 million in grants to fund the planting of trees at 34 public […]
President Andrzej Duda of Poland bestowed his nation’s Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit upon Stanlee Stahl, the executive vice president of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), for her work in support of Polish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. The award was given to Stahl this month at Poland’s Permanent Mission […]