LIVINGSTON, NJ — FAMILYConnections 13th annual Tasting Gala will be Tuesday, May 2, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Westminster Hotel in Livingston. This year’s honorees are award-winning chef James Laird, who will receive the Champion of the People award, and former FAMILYConnections President and Maplewood Mayor Ellen Davenport, who will receive the Lifetime […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A charity in honor of the victims of the Seton Hall residence hall fire donated $22,500 to enable scholarships for Seton Hall students who are devoting their lives to careers as first responders. The donation was presented by Jason Tarantino, Mike Merizio and Jim Merizio to Tracy Gottlieb, vice president of […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As part of a restoration effort, the Academy Heights Neighborhood Association, with the support of the South Orange Village, has renamed Memorial Park on Valley Street in South Orange “Founders Park” in homage to the town’s founding families, who are buried there. At its March 13 meeting, the South Orange Board […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Seton Hall University invites the community to “Japan Week 2017: Lighting Up The Spirit of Japan” from Monday, March 27, through Friday, March 31. Japan Week strives to build a bridge between cultures that will enable the sharing […]
BOE chops elementary Spanish, vows to ‘reimagine’ it
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education approved the proposed preliminary budget for the 2017-18 school year, leaving a more than $500,000 shortfall for the school district to make up, despite the fact that taxes will increase by 3.56 percent and the banked cap from the 2014-15 school year will […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel will hold a series of programs for people of all ages in April that are open to the public. On Friday, April 7, TSTI offers its pre-Passover “Penne Shabbat” dinner at two times, 5:15 p.m. for families with young children up to second grade, followed by the Friday […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood School District will hold a town hall on equity and inclusion, focusing on recent events within the district and the many responses, on Wednesday, March 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Columbia High School Cafeteria, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood. Superintendent of Schools John […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter Kevin Devine premiered a new song during WSOU’s “Campus Buzz,” the station’s weekly specialty show dedicated to indie and alternative music. The still untitled song, which Devine noted he hadn’t even played yet for his wife and child, was the capstone to an hourlong, at times gregarious, interview. The […]
Maniacs bring their special brand of sound to South Orange
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Popular alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs will take the stage at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on Sunday, March 26, after celebrating 35 years in music last year. Such a milestone is a major achievement for any group, and the significance is certainly not lost on the Maniacs. After all, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall University board of regents voted unanimously on March 23 to appoint Mary Meehan, Ph.D., a highly respected higher education and health care leader, as well as a former Seton Hall administrator and university alumna, as its interim president, effective April 11. Meehan’s appointment allows Seton Hall President A. […]