‘Terrifying Night, Miraculous Recovery’

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Rachel Coalition will host its annual Women to Women luncheon on Tuesday, April 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Wilshire Grand Hotel, 350 Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange. The luncheon will feature a presentation by Melissa Dohme Hill, who was brutally attacked by her high school ex-boyfriend, […]

A look at women through film

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Women’s History Month Film Festival comes to 1978 Maplewood Arts Center on Thursday, April 5, at 5 p.m. for the screenings of three films, which combined equal approximately two hours. Admission is free. “Tale of Four” is inspired by Nina Simone’s song “Four Women”; “Rhoda” is a 75-year-old woman’s look back […]

Jules Heningburg leads Rutgers Univ. men’s lacrosse team

Rutgers University men’s lacrosse attackman Jules Heningburg, a senior captain from Maplewood, is enjoying a fine season. Heningburg leads Rutgers in both goals with 29 and assists with 22 through 10 games. Rutgers had a 7-3 record through April 1. For the second time this season, Heningburg was named to the USILA Team of the […]

Learn from the ‘LinkedIn Guy’

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Business owners, nonprofits and social media marketers who want to learn the latest on how to leverage social media to drive traffic, generate leads and more sales will enjoy April’s West Orange Chamber of Commerce Biz 2.0 guest speaker Julbert Abraham. Abraham, known as the “LinkedIn Guy,” specializes in helping small […]

Computer classes at NCJW/Essex

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Registration is now open for April computer classes at the Linda & Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women. Intermediate Excel is scheduled to run on four consecutive Mondays and Wednesdays beginning April 9 from 10 a.m. to noon, and intermediate Word is scheduled for four consecutive Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 10 […]

Town historian donates WWI book to museum

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Township historian Joseph Fagan recently donated a German Army WWI regimental history book to Jonathan Casey, director of archives at the National World War I Museum and Edward Jones Research Center in Kansas City, Mo. The book was published in 1920 in Stuttgart, Germany, following the war and came to West […]

SOMS students protest gun violence

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On March 14, South Orange Middle School students participated in the National School Walkout, marching around the building, then gathering for a student-organized program. The students spoke about gun violence and read the names of those who were killed on Feb. 14 at the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.