NEWARK, NJ — In response to direct requests from customers, NJ Transit will offer additional busing from its highest ridership stations along the Morris & Essex Lines while trains are diverted to Hoboken this summer due to Amtrak’s repair work. “The feedback from our customers is vital and is something I am personally committed to,” […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – The Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders honored the East Orange Campus High School Boys’ Track and Field Team for winning the 2017 New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association North II, Group 4 State Sectional Championship during a special presentation held at the Orange Town Hall in Orange, May 24. Freeholder […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Farmers Market on Monday, July 10, will feature a van from Atlantic Health Systems for blood pressure and blood sugar testing along with information on heart health. The Maplewood Farmers Market takes place Mondays, from 2 to 7 p.m., at 1848-1852 Springfield Ave., between Yale and Oberlin streets. Ample parking […]
NUTLEY, NJ – Nutley East won the District 8 Intermediate 50/70 Baseball championship. The team won the title at the Nutley East Backfield on June 30. Pictured in the back row, players, left to right: Christopher Lamond, Jack Bumpus, Kai Madrazo, Evan Cirone, Sean Mahar, Jonathan Velez, and Brian Conte. Kneeling, left to right: Ben […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — SOMA Film Festival, in partnership with the South Orange and Maplewood public libraries, is offering a free screening of its successful “Kids Program” this July. The inaugural “Kids Program” screened to a soldout Maplewood Theater in March at this years’ festival. The program had all original content from local […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County is sponsoring a fundraising poetry workshop on Saturday, July 15, at 2 p.m. Society member Sylvia Kramer, distinguished author, poet and lecturer, will gently and amusingly bring out the poet in all attendees. Whether you love writing, or if you’ve never written a line and […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Friends of Maplewood Library is holding a one-day bag-of-books sale on Saturday, July 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale takes place in Memorial Hall at Maplewood Memorial Library, 51 Baker St. in Maplewood. A bag, supplied by Friends, can be filled with a mix of hardbacks or paperbacks. Books […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — JFS MetroWest has been awarded a $25,000 matching grant by the Jewish Funders Network and Genesis Prize Foundation as part of the “Breaking Barriers” initiative aimed at promoting inclusion for those with disabilities in Jewish life. The award is part of a matching grant program created in honor of 2016 Genesis […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Orange/West Orange UNICO recently donated 15 two-way radios to West Orange’s Community Emergency Response Team.
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Members of the South Orange-Maplewood community gathered June 19 at The Woodland in Maplewood for an interfaith Iftar, which is the festive communal meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan. The event was co-sponsored by the SOMA Refugee Resettlement Project and U.S. Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad of Maplewood. From left are […]