WEST ORANGE — A township resident who grew up along the parade route has been named grand marshal of the 72nd Annual West Orange St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Grand Marshal Noel G. O’Keeffe was born in November of 1966 in Orange and raised in West Orange, deeply immersed in both the Irish-American community and local […]
In partnership with the Community Coalition on Race and South Orange Village, the Meadowland Park Conservancy continued their tradition of filling the 45 acres of the park with light to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Jan. 20 event featured the largest display of CCR luminaries in SOMA, with the entire […]
With a Roaring ‘20s federal prohibition warning posted at its door and a 1930 Packard nearby, the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge went all-out Saturday night, Jan. 25, celebrating the centennial of its club house and the blow was the bee’s knees. The soldout event had the imprimatur of the Mayor’s Gala with some 230 […]
WELCOMING THE SNAKE — The Year of the Snake was celebrated at Lunar Fest NJ on Sunday, Jan. 26 at The Woodland in Maplewood. The event featured a Lion Dance, traditional Chinese dancing, a martial arts demonstration, Rutgers University students from Haru Dance doing Kpop dance covers, Chinese acrobats, and a Japanese drumming exhibition. There […]
SOMA ROCKS — A Singer Showcase was held Saturday night, Jan. 25, at the Woodland in Maplewood. The event, which was a benefit for the Columbia High School Music Parents Association, featured SOMA’s backing band, The Local Heroes, playing behind a line up of singers that included Kate Baldwin, pictured lower right, Graham Rowat, bottom […]
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 […]
By John Tierney Special to the News-Record Celebrating its 75th season of concerts for the community, the South Orange Symphony presents a free Family Concert on Sunday Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at the South Orange Middle School. Susan Haig conducts, and South Orange Village Mayor Sheena Collum makes a special virtuoso appearance in […]
Carteret Elementary School held its first Wellness Fair on Saturday morning, Jan. 11, in the school gym with about a dozen health care providers on hand. The event was sponsored by the school’s Cultural Committee and coordinated by sixth-grade special education teacher Gianna Allegretti. She cited a language barrier among the Carteret population as one […]
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. […]