SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race will hold its 17th annual preschool open house, featuring representatives from more than 20 preschool and childcare agencies, on Monday, Nov. 12, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Montrose Early Childhood Education Center, 356 Clark St. in South Orange. This free event will include a […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — A panel of experts will be featured at an upcoming NCJW/Essex Lunch and Learn addressing “#MeToo: What’s Next?” The panel will discuss the #MeToo movement, which has ignited a revolution, and explore how we got here and how we move forward. The program will take place Wednesday, Nov. 7, from noon to […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Gregory neighborhood residents delivered in a big way on Oct. 21 as the eighth annual food drive to benefit the Holy Trinity-West Orange Food Pantry filled a U-Haul with thousands of pounds of donations as the holidays approach. “We tried something a little different this year,” food pantry administrator Cynthia Cumming […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — October 18, 2018 – Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey honored Sonia Zenobi, 10, with the Medal of Honor — a Lifesaving Award given by Girl Scouts of the United States of America — for saving her mother’s life. The Medal of Honor is given to a Girl Scout who has saved […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University anthropology professor Rhonda Quinn is featured in a PBS documentary that used a team of historians and forensic scientists to recreate the life of an African American woman who died in the first half of the 19th century — before the Civil War and the federal abolition of […]
MONTCLAIR / WEST ORANGE, NJ — COPE Center will hold free parenting workshops on communication and boundaries. The first workshop will be Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave. in Montclair; this session is co-sponsored by Union Congregational Church and Montclair Community Intervention Alliance. The second workshop […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Spa Day at Daughters of Israel on Oct. 12 was a fun and pampering treat for the facility’s female residents. The event, which was organized with the help of resident Sandye Garrison, included facials, massages and spa-themed refreshments. Photos Courtesy of Renee Glick
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Last spring, the Educational Theatre Association selected 12, two-member teams for its Model Curriculum Framework Project. Jordan Herskowitz, Golda Och Academy’s Upper School dean of students and arts department chair, was chosen out of the more than 100 applicants for this prestigious program, which is supported by a grant from the […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — From Nov. 5 through 30, two Columbia High School alumni, professional artists Sarah Langsam and Josh Sender, will display their work in the school’s Domareki Galley. Langsam and Sender both spent the bulk of their childhood growing up in the SOMA area and are members of the CHS Class of 2009. While […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Join the Maplewood Garden Club on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Maplewood Memorial Library, 51 Baker St., when Lisa Roper presents “The Chanticleer Gravel Garden.” Roper is the Gravel Garden and Ruin horticulturist at Chanticleer, a contemporary garden within a historic setting in Wayne, Pa. She has worked and photographed […]