A day of community service was held at Christ Episcopal Church of Bloomfield and Glen Ridge on Saturday morning, Jan. 18. The annual event, held in observance of Martin Luther King Day, benefitting local charities was initiated in Bloomfield, but the Glen Ridge church, as it often does, opened its doors to neighbors. “Our parish […]
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 […]
IRVINGTON — Two professional boxers from Irvington will fight on the big stage Saturday, Feb. 1 when Jean Pierre Valencia and Ghandi Romain compete in separate bouts at the Prudential Center in Newark. Valencia (3-0, 2 knockouts) will face Dmitry Noskov (0-1) in a four-round junior middleweight bout, while Romain (6-1-1, 4 knockouts) will face […]
Longtime East Orange resident Inez “Rose” Rosalie Alick Elliot turned 108 on Monday, her birthday serendipitously coinciding with the nationwide observance of Martin Luther King Day. The occasion was celebrated at Pine Acres Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Madison, where she is currently living. She was joined by family, friends, staff, and special guests Mayor […]
Jean Alvares, a former member of the Bloomfield Open Space Committee who helped to establish community gardens at Pulaski and Milhouse parks, and was a Montclair State University professor of classics and humanities, died at home Jan. 16, after a long illness. He was remembered by residents and colleagues as an erudite, but a down-to-earth […]
West Orange native Cody Simon was a big part of the Ohio State University football team’s amazing season. Simon, a 6-foot-2, 235-pound graduated senior linebacker, posted a team-high eight tackles to help the eighth-seeded OSU Buckeyes to a 34-23 win over No. 7 University of Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff Championship game on […]
Columbia High School wrestlers Jared Van Allen and Reid Ordower won their 100th career matches last week. The two seniors entered the Wednesday, Jan. 15, home match against St. Benedict’s Prep with 99 victories apiece. Van Allen, competing at 120 pounds, defeated Buyanjargal Batmunkh to achieve his milestone. Ordower, unfortunately, lost to Merlin Dilone by […]
Eva Samo, a News-Record “Woman of the Year” and Maple Leaf Award winner who helped create after school care and summer programs that are still in place today, has died. She was 103. The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School, where Samo was on staff for 51 years, put out a statement on her passing that noted […]
OLD FASHION FUN — Flood’s Hill in Meadowland Park in South Orange is always a popular sledding destination after a snowfall and it was busy on Monday, Jan. 20, with all manner of sledding devices on site.
LET IT SNOW! — The first significant snowfall of the season saw people flock to their local sledding hill to take advantage of some pretty great conditions. Maplewood’s Memorial Park was busy early Monday morning with kids, parents and even dogs taking a run down the hill.