SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The school district set aside three days for emergency closings in 2017-2018; however, the district has already used four days as a result of inclement weather, and Maplewood Middle School used a fifth day on March 9 due to lack of power. The calendar approved by the Board of […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Monday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., Temple B’nai Abraham’s Bloom Family Memorial Lecture Fund will present “The Shrinking Jewish Middle,” with Steven M. Cohen, research professor of social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, and director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. The temple […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School Children’s Summer Program offers more than 100 classes in creative arts, music, science and sports. For the first time, registration is online. Students get to choose their own classes — there are five periods in a day — and the day can be as […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In one of the most shocking and infamously haunting incidents in art history, Vincent Van Gogh, consumed with paranoid delusion, sliced off his left ear. After a relatively short hospital stay, he returned to the Yellow House but could not maintain his mental equilibrium. A South Orange-Maplewood Adult School class on Thursday, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County will host a screening of “Seymour: An Introduction,” the Ethan Hawke documentary about legendary piano teacher Seymour Bernstein, on Saturday, March 17, at 4 p.m. Following the movie, there will be a question-and-answer session with Bernstein. Born in Newark, Bernstein was a piano prodigy before […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8 and National Women’s History Month this March, Green Hill recently saluted its founding women. Green Hill was founded in 1866 by 13 women and called the Society for Relief of the Respectable Aged Women in Newark, New Jersey. The nonprofit enterprise began […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race will host a special program for families with children in preschool through middle school on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m. at the Montrose Early Childhood Learning Center, 356 Clark St. in South Orange. This program will discuss how racial dynamics in […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – For a team that went winless at 0-14 last season, winning the Suburban League Boys 8th grade Basketball Championship was just a dream for this year’s South Orange Middle School team. Playing against powerful and experienced teams from Essex County, SOMS held its own during the regular season with a 10-4 […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – Bloomfield High School senior football standout Joe Bumpus, pictured at right, was among the recipients of the Scholar Athlete Award given by the Essex County Chapter of the National Football Foundation during a ceremony held at Mayfair Farms in West Orange on March 6. With him is BHS assistant football coach Eddie […]