MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School varsity wrestling team finished second overall among 11 teams at the Belleville Buccaneer Classic on Saturday, Jan. 12. The Cougars were led by four individual champions: senior Naquan Tory at the 106-pound weight class; senior Devin Rocha at 145; senior Blake McGowan at 170 and junior Max Moore […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Education Foundation is sponsoring the sixth annual “Bowling for Scholarship Dollars” on Saturday, Feb. 2, at Eagle Rock Lanes, 424 Eagle Rock Ave., beginning at 7:30 p.m. The popular event raises funds for West Orange High School Principal Hayden Moore’s Scholarships, which are awarded to graduating seniors each year. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School boys’ and girls’ swim teams, under head coach Maggie Keenan, are enjoying fine seasons this winter. The girls’ team will look to defend its Super Essex Conference/Essex County championship this Monday, Jan. 21, at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. The girls’ team won the SEC/Essex County […]
NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced Jan. 7 that Patricia Layton Piccinno, 50, of Boonton, was sentenced to three years in New Jersey State Prison for stealing more than $500,000 from her 80-year-old mother-in-law and her husband, a Bloomfield Police detective. The state had recommended four years in New […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Maplewood siblings Kayleigh Wolff and Cullen Wolff recently signed letters of intent to continue their lacrosse careers on the collegiate level. Kayleigh is a senior at all-girls’ Oak Knoll in Summit. She signed with the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Cullen is a senior at all-boys’ Seton Hall Prep in West […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ – The Belleville High School boys’ and girls’ indoor track and field teams enjoyed fine efforts at the Molloy Stanner Games on Saturday, Jan. 12 at the 168th St. Armory Center in New York City. Belleville results: Girls’ 55-Meter Dash (Varsity) – Prelims Danielle Sharpe 7.89 Personal Best (PB) Camillah Nigatu 8.03 Season […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Thanks to the passion of West Orange resident Dorit Tabak, the Tarbut Sighet Foundation will hold an “All Generation Gathering” to commemorate the 75 years since the Jewish deportation from Maramures-Sighet to Auschwitz. Tarbut is organizing a May trip, sponsored by Tabak, to Romania, specifically the town of Sighet, the hometown […]
NEW YORK CITY — Vanguard Theater Company, based in Maplewood, will present “Runaways,” by Elizabeth Swados, for four performances only on January 18 through 20 at the American Theater for Actors, 314 W 54th St., New York City. “Runaways” is a musical collage about the hopes, dreams, fears, frustrations, loneliness, humor and anger of young […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Hilton Neighborhood Association will remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at DeHart Community Center, 120 Burnett Ave. in Maplewood. Everyone is invited to enjoy the luminaries purchased from the Community Coalition, join in song with Bahati Best, listen to a reading […]
NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced Jan. 7 that two reputed gang members were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their role in the murder of 23-year-old William Porter IV, of Newark. Superior Court Judge James W. Donohue sentenced Rashan Jackson, 31, of Irvington, to life in New Jersey […]