WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Arts Council’s annual Holiday Boutique will be open for business on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3, with vendors filling the West Orange Arts Center on Valley Road. Residents will be able to get a jump on their holiday shopping, while also getting a chance to browse […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley High students, led by the Patriot Club, held the fifth annual tribute to veterans on Nov. 8 during an evening event in the auditorium. It was a red, white and blue program of patriotism and gratitude to about 40 veterans who were in attendance. The night included music, speeches and fanfare, […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The Community First Sports Club U9 boys soccer teams, both consisting of players from Maplewood and South Orange, completed winning fall campaigns over the weekend. The Dragons compiled a 12-4-1 record this season, finishing in second place in the Mid-New Jersey Youth Soccer Association first division and winning the Parsippany Pride […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Members of the Science National Honor Society spent the morning of Nov. 18 planting six new trees to beautify the landscape on the Pleasant Valley Way side of West Orange High School. “We have wanted to do something for a while now,” SNHS adviser Ronald Brandt said, “and we all decided […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — On Friday, Nov. 17, the Fleming-Kendrick family from Newark became the 795,559th visitors to Turtle Back Zoo during 2017. This breaks the annual attendance record set last year and is the 13th consecutive year that a new annual attendance record has been established. Then, just one week later, the Penn family […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — On Nov. 22, Mayor Robert Parisi joined representatives from the Crestmont Country Club in West Orange to break ground on renovations. Photos Courtesy of Perry Bashkoff
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School business department has been named a Gold Standard School by Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit advocacy organization that provides support to financial educators. “We discovered that your school is one of the few delivering the ‘gold standard,’ a required, semester-long personal finance course,” Tim Ranzetta […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony will be Tuesday, Dec. 5, on campus, 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange. Launching this year’s Christmas at The Hall, the day’s events will begin with Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at 5 p.m., followed by the Blessing of the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Sixty-seven students from theater, band, orchestra, marching band, glee club and choirs were inducted into the West Orange High School Tri-M Music Honor Society on Nov. 14. Tri-M Music Honor Society, formerly known as Modern Music Masters, is both a middle school and high school honor society and is a program […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School Principal’s Scholarship fundraiser, “Pocketbook Bingo,” netted $2,000 for graduating seniors and put smiles on the faces of all who attended. More than 65 attendees enjoyed an evening of bingo, desserts and fun as numbers were called and winners collected their Coach or Michael Kors handbags at […]