MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The calendar may say spring, but in the Maplewood Recreation Department at Town Hall, it’s a summertime fun fest. There is still time to register and join the movement. Pool membership Before you know it, it’s going to be time to jump into the Maplewood Community Pool. Opening day May 27, so […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The 15th annual Scholarship & Building Maintenance Fundraiser for the South Orange-Vailsburg United Methodist Church in South Orange will be Friday, May 12, from 7 p.m. to midnight at Westminster Hotel, 550 W. Mt. Pleasant Ave. in Livingston. The event includes a guest speaker, door prizes and music by a popular […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The Summit Free Public Library and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will present “Vantage Points,” an exhibition of photography by Maplewood resident Linda Jacobs in the library’s art gallery through May 31. “Capturing the movement of light and shadow from an uncommon vantage point reveals the beautiful and unexpected within […]
Bar mitzvah boy collects toys to give to children with cancer, seeks to bring smiles to their faces
MAPLEWOOD / WEST ORANGE, NJ — A West Orange boy is collecting toys for donation to the children of The Valerie Fund, a Maplewood-based nonprofit organization that benefits youth with cancer and blood diseases. Tyler Levy has collected approximately 180 toys since launching his drive in February, nearly twice as much as his original goal […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Black Parents Workshop has launched a new website — www.blackparentsworkshop.org — as part of its continuing efforts to advocate for equity in the South Orange-Maplewood School District. The organization was launched in 2014 as an effort to address a perceived two-decade failure of the SOMSD to address a racial […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A team of Stillman School of Business students from Seton Hall University won the CFA Institute Research Challenge for the Americas. The team advanced to this level of the competition after being crowned regional champs at an event sponsored by the New York Society of Security Analysts. With this latest victory […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Linda and Rudy Slucker Religious School at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange recently sponsored a pound fit class to benefit Girls Helping Girls. Period., which distributes feminine hygiene products to girls and women in need. Approximately two dozen women, whose children attend the religious school or are synagogue members, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — SOMADEMS will host Democratic gubernatorial candidates Phil Murphy and Bill Brennan at the group’s third “Meet the Governor” candidates forum on Tuesday, April 25, from 7 to 10 p.m. at The Woodland, 60 Woodland Road in Maplewood. RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/mxlxeas. “We are pleased to welcome New Jersey’s Democratic candidates to the Maplewood […]
‘Cain’t say no’ to seeing ‘Oklahoma!’ this weekend
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — “Oklahoma!” is undoubtedly one of the most significant plays in the history of American theater. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic — the duo’s debut collaboration — was among the first productions to incorporate song and dance into a coherent story when it opened on Broadway in 1943. Since then the show […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Join your neighbors for an encore community screening of “Screenagers” on Thursday, April 20, at 7 p.m. at South Orange Middle School, 70 N. Ridgewood Road in South Orange. This event is sponsored by the SOMA School Library Friends and The Parenting Center, and funded by the Friends of the South […]