Synagogue employee Jodi Rotondo has alter ego who writes best-selling historical romance novels
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When you meet Jodi Rotondo around town, it can be quite difficult to see what lies underneath the surface. It’s easy to see that she is a devoted wife and mother, and the communications coordinator at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange. But you may not realize she is the bestselling […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The annual Downtown West Orange Alliance Street Fair, held June 3, brought residents swarming to the Main Street corridor to explore the businesses and events highlighted during the day. Photos Courtesy of Megan Brill
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Despite clouds and drizzle on Memorial Day, the SOMA spirit was soaring and the South Mountain YMCA’s Memorial Day Duck Race was a resounding success! Honorary Mayor Brooke Jenkins tossed out the first duck followed by more than 600 rubber ducks, which bobbed down the rapids of the Rahway River. Hundreds of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An on-again, off-again tennis tournament, started in the 1980s by a Bloomfield resident but discontinued for almost three decades, has been rejuvenated in recent years and is currently being played with a first-place trophy and bragging rights at stake. The “Friendly Man Tennis Tournament,” the creation of James Street resident Alfred “Sonny” Piccoli, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Albert Appouh very easily could have given up on his dreams of a higher education. The Maplewood resident has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and temporarily had to halt his college education twice in order to seek help for his illness. But Appouh never quit completely. Instead, upon starting […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The students of Washington Elementary School are taking a stand against the use of polystyrene foam cafeteria trays, hoping to make their community safer and more environmentally friendly. Approximately 350 students in kindergarten through fifth grade wrote letters and drew pictures for the West Orange Board of Education and Sodexo, the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Even while balancing a dual curriculum, students at Golda Och Academy find time in their schedules to participate in meaningful activities. For some, this means a club or school activity, but for others, this means devoting time and energy to others through volunteering. Many students at GOA feel incredibly fortunate for […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — People’s Organization for Progress Chairman Larry Hamm and the members of the grassroots social and economic justice activist group spent Monday, May 29, doing what they have been doing for the last 70 consecutive weeks — protesting outside the Peter Rodino Federal Building in downtown Newark in an attempt to convince President […]
With expansion, jitney will now cover Pleasantdale, Redwood sections
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The township of West Orange has finally unveiled its long-anticipated sixth jitney route, which covers the Pleasantdale and Redwood neighborhoods with four stops on the way to and from either the Orange station or the Brick Church station. The rout, which should be up and running sometime in August, will begin […]
South Orange will use money to build rain park, a sustainable and social endeavor for residents
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — New Jersey American Water announced May 23 that South Orange is one of four communities to receive a 2017 Environmental Grant Program grant. South Orange will receive $10,000 to build a rain park based on the premise of a rain garden that will capture stormwater runoff that normally flows directly into […]