Precious Little Ladies, a nonprofit organization committed to ending child sexual abuse, incestuous abuse, and gender-based violence, held its inaugural “Hope Blossoms” fundraising luncheon on Sept. 28, at Dutch’s Restaurant at the Tryp Hotel. The event, attended by community leaders, advocates, and supporters, celebrated resilience, hope, and the collective fight for Precious Little Ladies’ (PLL) […]
Congregants from St. Andrew & Holy Communion in South Orange and St. George’s Episcopal Church of Maplewood held a joint service on Sunday, Oct. 6, with pets invited for an annual blessing. The blessing is done in connection with the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, which this year fell on Friday, Oct. 4. […]
MAPLEWOOD — Oheb Shalom Congregation of South Orange held a Rosh Hashanah celebration in Memorial Park on Wednesday, Oct. 3. About 200 people were in the park’s natural amphitheater for the service billed as “a free service of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings for families of all faiths, no faiths, and the faith curious.” Rabbi […]
Fresh off the red carpet of the HollyRod DesignCare 2024 event, where she was an honoree, Nadine Wright-Arbubakrr presided over Nassan’s Place Annual Community Awards Gala on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Galloping Hill Golf Club in Kenilworth. The event included a cocktail hour, dinner, and a night dedicated to raising awareness about autism while […]
REVIEW Bursting with energy and iconic hits, the Paper Mill Playhouse season opener “Jersey Boys” tells the dramatized true story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, one of the most successful singing groups in pop-music history. This story is quintessential “Jersey” meets “the American Dream” as we learn that the group got started singing […]
With an eye on the American Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Bloomfield Cemetery is considering how to observe the occasion. Cemetery Superintendent Mary Jones said one possibility may be a QR-coded tour of the gravesites of Revolutionary War veterans. There are 33 known Bloomfield Cemetery gravesites of these […]
MAPLEWOOD — The library is nearing completion and could be ready for visitors by the end of the year. A tour of the very active construction site was given last week to members of the media by Library Director Sarah Lester, township Committee Member Vic DeLuca and the architects from Sage and Coombe. The library […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Every seat at the Woodland was filled recently when the draft of the Movie Theater Redevelopment Plan was presented. Many attendees were in red and black, to show they were in support of saving the historic theater. Mayor Nancy Adams and Paul Grygiel, a planning and real estate consultant, hosted the event […]
James Hoch, Joan Larkin, and Marcia LeBeau will be the featured poets at the next Watershed Literary Events reading on Oct. 13 at the South Orange Skate House. The reading is part of a spoken-word series sponsored by the Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs and the Meadowland Park Conservancy in South Orange. This is […]
Athletes from West Orange and beyond headed to Suriano Stadium on Sept. 22 to run, bike and walk 3.1 miles in honor of Nikhil Badlani for the 14th year in a row. The annual STOP for Nikhil event is thrown each year by the Nikhil Badlani Foundation to honor Nikhil Badlani, who died in a […]