Bloomfield HS student-athlete Jackie Giunta receives Best Teammate Award by the SEC

BLOOMFIELD, NJ – Bloomfield High School student-athlete Jackie Giunta who is member of the Bengals’ varsity softball team, recently earned the 2018 Investors Bank Best Teammate Award. Guinta was honored during ceremonies held at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center. Best teammates are selected by athletic directors and coaches from high schools in the […]

Graduating TSTI students share favorite memories at ceremony

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, the Reform synagogue in South Orange, bade a fond farewell on May 4 to its latest graduating class from Hebrew High, senior youth group STISY and the religious school’s madrichim, or classroom aide, programs. The 12th-grade students, who led the Friday evening service, spoke about their experiences as […]

Devoted son plants mom a garden for Mother’s Day

WEST ORANGE, NJ — A week before Mother’s Day, David Alsieux began removing two huge stumps and an ailing tree from his mother’s yard on Cornell Street. This was just the first step in his plan to gift his mom, Barbara Iris Alsieux, with a beautiful garden for Mother’s Day. “He worked diligently removing the […]

SAGE offers spousal bereavement support

SUMMIT, NJ — SAGE Eldercare will offer a new, free, eight-week bereavement support group beginning June 5, for people age 60 and older who have lost a spouse in the last year. The support group will be led by licensed clinical social worker Kathy Larkin, SAGE’s InfoCare manager. “Adjusting to the loss of a spouse […]

JSDD Wae Center visits ‘Art from the Heart’

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Members of the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled Wae Center in West Orange recently visited the West Orange Arts Council’s “Art from the Heart” exhibit at the West Orange Arts Center and received a private gallery tour by exhibition manager Lisa Suss. “These trips are important to the overall well-being […]

SHU awards grants to distinguished faculty cohort

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The 2018 distinguished faculty cohort selected to receive 2018 Seton Hall University Research Council Awards were honored at a luncheon hosted by the University Research Council and the Office of Grants and Research Services on May 1. The summer stipend and research grant competition is one of the most long-standing and […]

WOHS student assistance counselors screen ‘The Hunting Ground’

WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School student assistant counselors Keshia Golding-Cooper and Amadeo Chirichiello screened an important film for students and parents on May 9 called “The Hunting Ground.” The film looks at the staggering statistics of sexual assault on college campuses and was nominated for several awards, including two Emmy nominations, and […]