Groundbreaking play about African-American sisterhood

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Celebrate Black History Month with 4th Wall Theatre at the Burgdorff Performing Arts Center in Maplewood with a showing of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking play, “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.” The piece is billed as a “choreopoem” and weaves together 20 separate poems with music, movement […]

Regional stepping championship to be held at WOHS

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The award-winning West Orange High School girls’ and boys’ step teams will be competing at the 2018 Youth Step USA New Jersey Regional High School Stepping Championship on Feb. 10 at West Orange High School. Winners of the regional competition will move on to the state competition in Harrisburg, Pa., in […]

WOHS alumnus to report to USS Chung Hoon

WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School Class of 2014 alumnus and top-ranking Naval Academy midshipman Dylan Pennell will be commissioned as an ensign with a bachelor of science degree and assigned to the USS Chung Hoon following his graduation in May. Pennell chose the Pearl Harbor-stationed USS Chung Hoon during the Jan. 25 […]

MFD responds to house fire on Irvington Ave.

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 10:11 p.m., the Maplewood Fire Department was dispatched to a reported smoke condition with power outage at 504 Irvington Ave., according to a Jan. 30 press release from the department. Upon arrival, Engine 32 reported smoke showing from the front corner of the home. A hand line […]

Four plead guilty to West Orange home invasion

NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced Jan. 30 that four men have entered guilty pleas, admitting their roles in a West Orange home invasion in June in which a husband, wife and young child were terrorized. The defendants Edward Bentura, 33, Yodelin Diaz, 25, Lidio Martinez Miese, 30, and Jesus […]

History Through Text with Rabbi Kulwin

LIVINGSTON, NJ — TBA’s Congregational Learning offers classes in History Through Text with Rabbi Kulwin throughout the year at Temple B’nai Abraham, 300 E. Northfield Road, Livingston. Taught in blocks of several weeks, each class will also be a stand-alone unit so that an inability to attend all or even most of the sessions will […]