MAPLEWOOD FUN — The MayFest Street Fair returned to Springfield Avenue in Maplewood on Sunday, May 18. The event included live music all afternoon plus ‘train rides’ on the avenue. Vendors sold a wide variety of wares from clothing to candles to empanadas, lemonade and funnel cake.
More than 350 people ran or walked in the Rage Run 5K for Reproductive Freedom organized by Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey on May 18. The event, which raised more than $30,000, featured short speeches by South Orange Mayor Sheena Collum, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, D-8, Alexis McGill Johnson, who is the acting president […]
A Columbia High School Artist Showcase opening night reception happened recently at Pierro Gallery. The community was invited to support emerging young artists at the opening in the gallery that is the Baird in South Orange. The exhibit runs through Sunday, June 8. Artist Anaelle Alexandre created “Land of Beauty” out of clay and artificial […]
The annual Django A GoGo Music Festival returned to Maplewood last weekend. The festival, which celebrates the music legacy of jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt, includes four concerts and a guitar camp offering intensive instruction. The Woodland hosted three concerts.
At 3-years-old Charell Star was picked up by a social worker and taken from her great-grandmother. Her belongings were in a trash bag. That’s where her story begins in her memoir “Trash Bag Tales” which was released May 1 in connection with Foster Care Awareness Month. Star’s father was incarcerated for murder and her mother […]
A Grammy award winning band from Los Angeles and a Boston based band that plays a blend of soul, pop, funk, and R&B will headline the annual Maplewoodstock Music and Art Festival the weekend of July 12-13. Ozomatli from Los Angeles headlines the festival on Sunday night while Boston-based Couch will close out Saturday night, […]
The South Orange Rescue Squad’s ‘Sound The Siren’ 5k Run/Walk and Emergency Medical Service Open House was held on Sunday, May 4. Evan Waller, 16, of Maplewood, won the race with a time of 19 minutes, 42 seconds. Elena Rozhko, 52, of Morristown, came in second and was the first female finisher with a time […]
A contingency plan has been created for the possibility of a strike by NJ Transit train engineers though it is not a replacement for train service but a way to get essential workers to their jobs. NJ Transit strongly encourages all those who can work from home to do so and limit traveling on the […]
MAPLEWOOD — Get ready for a complete stoppage of NJ Transit train service. That was the message from NJ Transit President and Chief Executive Officer Kris Kolluri at a press conference last week in the agency’s emergency operations center, where he warned commuters that the union representing the people who drive the trains is getting […]
A writer’s club at Winchester Gardens in Maplewood is being facilitated by Daniela Gioseffi, whose earliest years were spent in Orange and Newark. Gioseffi moved on to New York, where she lived for 50 years and published 18 books with major publishing companies before she retired to Winchester Gardens four years ago. “I missed author […]