Kaleidoscope Kabaret offers the best one-act plays in NJ
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Theater Project, the New Jersey-based theater company that produces its mainstage shows in Maplewood, will hold its annual “Kaleidoscope Kabaret” of one-act plays at the Burgdorff Cultural Center from Feb. 24 through 26. This year’s event features the debut of five plays written by members of the Theater Project’s Playwrights Workshop, […]
ORANGE, NJ — The following Orange Police Department officers who died in the line of duty are to be honored Thursday, Feb. 23, in front of the Freddie Polhill Law and Justice Complex on Park Street: detective Kieran T. Shields, officer Joyce Carnegie, Lt. Hermann Peccarelli and patrolman Frank Guzzo. Shields died after being shot […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Mayor Lester Taylor is running for a second term but, at his fourth annual State of the City Address on Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts Theater, he discussed his service to East Orange. “Three years ago, I began my service […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Earlier this week, 11 Jewish community centers received phoned-in bomb threats on Feb. 20. This comes in the aftermath of three waves of bomb threats in January, resulting in, through this most recent wave, 69 incidents at 54 JCCs in 27 states and one Canadian province in total. The West Orange […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Prudential Sea Turtle Recovery Center at Turtle Back Zoo officially opened Friday, Feb. 10. Essex County partnered with nonprofit Sea Turtle Recovery to operate the facility, which will nurse cold-stunned or injured turtles back to health so they can be released back into the ocean. Looking at sea turtles in […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As part of the leadup to the release of their new album, “The Great Collapse,” members of the band Fit for an Autopsy stopped by WSOU on Monday, Feb. 13, for a conversation with Assistant Music Director Nick Durant. The live on-air interview covered a variety of topics, starting off with […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Last year, Mayor Tony Vauss unveiled the Irvington Public Safety Department Police Division’s new Special Enforcement Response Team at his second annual State of the Township Address. This year, Vauss introduced the Police Division’s new Threat Assessment Criminal Intelligence Team at his third annual State of the Township Address on Thursday, Jan. […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School varsity cheerleaders returned from a whirlwind weekend in Orlando, Fla., competing in the National High School Cheerleading Championship on Feb. 10 and 11. As a result of their performances at the competition, they are third-place bronze medalists in the Large Varsity Non-Tumble Game Day and seventh […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Last fall, three synagogues in South Orange — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, Beth El Congregation and Congregation Oheb Shalom — set out to help resettle at least one refugee family and give them a new start in South Orange-Maplewood. The first family, refugees from the devastation in Syria, arrived in mid-January. Two […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Even with the lack of snow this winter, the Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Parks did not lose its winter skills, as demonstrated by its handling of the Feb. 9 snowstorm. “I think we did pretty well,” DPW Director Anthony Nesto said earlier this week. “The feedback was that residents were happy.” […]