GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge composer Amanda Harberg will have a work commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet played by the group at the upcoming program of the “Music in Montclair” series. The concert will be March 26, 5 p.m., at Unitarian Universalist Congregation, in Montclair. Harberg originated “Music in Montclair” in 2015 to highlight […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge held its annual My Favorite Doll’s Tea Party on Sunday, March 12. As the name implies, the event was for little girls, their dolls and their mothers. It was about the 10th year for the tea party, according to club president, Jill Simmons. The Girls’ […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A playwright and director who once presented her theatrical works at the Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Ridge will have her latest work performed in New York City during the next few weeks. Cilque (pronounced “silky”) Brown, a Bloomfield resident, has written “Safe,” a play about a minor league baseball team in the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — At the Glen Ridge Recreation Department senior studio art class on Tuesday, March 7, students began a three-week exercise that instructor Kristina Farrell said would be in preparation for painting flesh tones. For the first lesson, Farrell asked the students to copy a photograph using only one color. She suggested making […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A proclamation commemorating the centennial of the Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce was read at the Bloomfield Township council meeting on Monday, Feb. 27. The reading, by 2nd Ward Councilman Nicholas Joanow, noted that the organization was established as the Bloomfield Board of Trade in April 1898 and incorporated March 27, 1917. Six […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Police Department will be starting a junior police academy this coming summer for seventh- through tenth-graders. Detective Sgt. Daniel Manley, who will be the lead instructor for the one-week academy, hopes to attract 25 Glen Ridge students. Applications will become available at the end of this month. An essay […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County recently announced that 89 deer and 56 unborn deer were removed from South Mountain Reservation and Hilltop Reservation during the 2017 deer management program. The program, which was held on six days between Jan. 17 and Feb. 14, is geared toward revitalizing the forest ecology by reducing the number […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. presented his 14th annual State of the County Address on Monday, Feb. 27, in the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove. The multimedia presentation outlined county achievements and improvement projects completed in 2016, highlighted the services and programs offered by Essex County and announced […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ – The fifth-seeded Glen Ridge High School girls’ varsity basketball team pulled out a gritty 61-59 overtime win over 12th-seeded Ridgefield in the first round of the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group 1 state tournament on Feb. 28 at GRHS. The game was tied 52-52 at the end of regulation. GRHS […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Public Library has received a $7,500 grant that it will use to create a makerspace on the second floor of the building. According to Library Director Jennifer Breuer, in order to obtain the grant from the NJ State Library and LibraryLinkNJ, the GRPL had to partner with a local […]