The West Orange based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous recently had its annual Advanced Seminar at the Hilton Newark Airport. The JFR selected 21 middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center staff from five states to participate in its 2025 Advanced Seminar—an intensive two-day academic program that explores several topics addressing the history of […]
Andrea Teutli, who has more than 17 years of experience in artistic programming, public art installations, and leading community engagement initiatives, is the new manager of arts and culture in Maplewood. “All the knowledge I have from everything I learned so far, let’s bring it back to our local communities,” Teutli said. “So many emerging […]
In celebration of Black History Month, the 1978 Arts Center is featuring “Ancestral Call” with artist Danielle Scott. Scott, who now works in mixed-media assemblage, spent 20 years as an oil painter but her career shifted unexpectedly in 2018 as she walked the streets of one of her ancestral homelands, Cuba. The walk started her […]
Jessica Lituchy and Stephanie Shiau began the SOMA Fox Running Club (SFRC) in 2021 after another club they belonged to shut down during Covid. “We wanted to create something new,” said Lituchy, who was living in Maplewood at the time and recently moved to East Hanover. The name originated with some fox-themed wallpaper that was […]
Justin Grant’s journey to writing his book began more than 20 years ago after a favorite uncle died. “The guy that I looked up to,” said Grant. “My uncle was a senior executive at Johnson & Johnson. He had a heart ailment at 48.” When Grant followed his uncle’s path, he experienced the stress […]
The Salmagundi Club recently announced its “Annual Black and White Exhibition” and a Maplewood resident was among the artists selected to exhibit her work. The show is a juried members’ exhibition of black and white or monochromatic sepia drawings, graphics, photographs, paintings, and sculpture. Longtime Maplewood resident JoEllen Petronzi had an ink drawing accepted for […]
Two roses growing in the garden at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church have quite a story to tell. The story begins with a 7-year-old boy singing in the church choir before becoming a teen idol, rock star and television icon. David Cassidy, best known for his role as Keith Partridge on “The Patridge Family,” spent his […]
It was cold outside but a warm meal was cooking inside the Durand-Hedden House. Margaret Quinn, an open-hearth cooking expert and historical interpreter from Mercer County, was giving a demonstration, illustrating what cooking was like in the 1770s. Quinn, with assistance from Bernadette Rogoff of the Monmouth County Historical Society, gave the demonstration Sunday, Jan. […]
Holocaust Learning Experience (HLE) is now being taught at Roosevelt Middle School. HLE is a nonprofit program developed by MorseLife Health System in West Palm Beach and will implement HLE’s age-appropriate Holocaust education model for students in grades 5 to 12. The stated mission is to educate and transform generations to end antisemitism and combat […]
The writing process isn’t easy. It may take years to finish penning a book. But then there’s the publishing process, which can also take a very long time. So, what are the chances of a husband and a wife both having their books published in the same month? Raymond Patton and Kerry Allan of Maplewood […]