ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — A new team of women is ready to helm the Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills. The group announced that Isabelle Felix, of Maplewood, will be the board’s 107th president with a one-year term. Other board members are: President-elect and Community Vice President Larisa Holderied, of Maplewood; treasurer Chye […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — SOMA on the Move, a new initiative of SOMA Two Towns for All Ages, will have its debut walk on Friday, Sept. 13, at 10 a.m. The walk, featuring the South Orange Village Art Trail, will start and finish in the Baird parking lot, 5 Mead St. in South Orange. Ken […]
MAPLEWOOD / IRVINGTON, NJ — According to an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Jason McDougall has reached an amicable settlement with the township of Irvington over the July 5, 2016, incident following Maplewood’s Independence Day fireworks event, in which Maplewood police used excessive force on rowdy teenagers. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Monday, Sept. 16, golfers will gather at the East Orange Golf Course to play in the third annual South Orange Golf Invitational, a fundraiser to benefit JESPY House. A South Orange-based nonprofit, JESPY serves 250 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Proceeds from the Golf Invitational will benefit JESPY’s Aging […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — If you headed ‘down the Shore’ this summer, you may have brushed up against a few horseshoe crabs on the beach, hardly giving a thought to these odd, distant relatives of spiders. Yet horseshoe crabs are 300-million-year-old living fossils that are so valuable that in the late 1990s they became the center […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Department of Health and the South Orange Chiropractic Center will present a free, healthy cooking seminar, called “Childhood Obesity,” on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 7 to 9 p.m. The presentation and cooking demonstration will be held at the Boccone South restaurant, 59 South Orange Ave. in South Orange. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Anne Sussman and Shirley Matthews will lead a free 20-minute meditation and sound bath called “Maplewood Meditates” on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 4 to 5 p.m. at Maplewood Memorial Park. Do you want to attain clarity, feel less stressed, tap into your innate creativity, sleep better, become more focused and productive, and […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Paula Poundstone has a treadmill desk in her office, but she never turns it on to use it. “Here’s the thing,” she said in a phone interview with the News-Record on Aug. 29. “It makes everything on there shimmy and shake!” The comedian was talking about how she writes jokes, in […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Luna Stage kicks off its new American Voices Series — and the 2019-2020 season — with” Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and more!),” written and performed by South Orange resident Susan Hyon and directed by David Skeist. This darkly comic work is inspired by Hyon’s childhood as the youngest of four unhappy […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Saturday, Sept. 14, at noon, the South Orange Villagers will play the Flemington Neshanock in a baseball game played according to the 1864 rules of the game in Cameron Field in South Orange. Part game, part show, part history lesson and all fun, the Flemington Neshanock team will return to […]