IRVINGTON, NJ — It’s been a memorable couple of months for Irvington High School football coach Ashley Pierre, affectionately known as “Coach Smoke.” He was recently named NJ.com’s football Coach of the Year and, on Sunday, Jan. 30, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Coffee4Coaches contest named Pierre as one of this fall’s winners. […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange–based songwriter and music producer Tyrone Corbett isn’t a stranger to making music, but he recently picked up a camera and delved into cinematography to make a music video for his newest song, “The Bell Tolls for You.” Co-written with Clarence Penn and Joseph Guida and performed by J.D. Wesley, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Lockdowns and forced deprivation can be a powerful incentive for artists to produce work of significance. Historically noted, there was an abundance of paintings created by artists working in Paris during World War II and Nazi occupation, yet much of it remained in studios until the occupation ended. But with the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School began its Saturday Academy, now in its 10th year, on the morning of Jan. 29. The sessions, which run for approximately three hours divided into three, 50-minute sessions, are held for six weeks and provide Carteret students with programs that may not be part of the regular curriculum. The […]
ORANGE, NJ — On Thursday, Feb. 3, the city of Orange and PSE&G held a public workshop community meeting with Orange residents to discuss the construction of the Orange Heights Switching Station at Freeman Street. The project is intended to improve electric system reliability and increase capacity for residents and businesses in Orange and the […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Township Committee unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s plan for a fracked gas power plant in Newark at its meeting on Feb. 1, asking Gov. Phil Murphy to shift to a renewable energy alternative. Other local, state and federal officials were named in the resolution as […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Pleasant Valley Productions Artistic Director Camille DiLorenzo gave an update and 2021 year-end review on the nonprofit community theater group’s residency at the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center at the West Orange Township Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 1, walking council members through the group’s third year of running the outdoor […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A code-yellow shelter-in-place was initiated at Columbia High School on Monday, Jan. 31, after two students were involved in an altercation in the school’s library that involved an “irritant similar to pepper spray.” According to CHS Principal Frank Sanchez, two staff members were able to separate the students. A full lockdown, also […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — For almost a decade, children with developmental disabilities, ages 8 to 18, and members of the Sharing the Arts Club at Glen Ridge High School, have been staging musicals. According to Jill Landgraber, club adviser and GRHS counselor, the Sharing the Arts program started in 2005 at Ridgewood High School and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange School District honored its Governor’s Educator of the Year winners at a meeting on Jan. 24, wishing them good luck in their quest to be named the county educator of the year and then ultimately the state educator of the year. Teachers, school counselors, paraprofessionals and school nurses […]