SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The village of South Orange and the township of Maplewood will be conducting a survey to gain feedback that will inform the development of an Age-Friendly Community Action Plan. The survey is part of an assessment of needs for adults older than 60 and is funded by the Grotta […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Thirty-one members of the Maplewood Middle School Model UN Club participated in the largest middle school Model U.N. conference in the world on Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2. The conference took place in New York City at the Grand Hyatt, and closing ceremonies were held on Saturday in the General […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Republican Committee has endorsed political newcomer Michael Summersgill as its candidate for the Maplewood Township Committee race. Running unopposed Summersgill, 35, will be the only Republican candidate in the June 6 primary. He is a professional engineer and has lived in Maplewood with his family for eight years. There will […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In Marc Palmieri’s comedy, ‘The Groundling,’ Long Island landscaper Bob Malone has been infected by the writing bug: After accidentally wandering into a low-rent production of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” he feels compelled to write his own verse play about his troubled marriage. He pays a desperate New York director to make […]
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Some feathers were recently ruffled when it became known that the results of the Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying investigation, conducted by Parsippany-Troy Hills interim Superintendent LeRoy Seitz into the Columbia High School baseball program will not be made public. Seitz has been hired as an independent professional to conduct […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Thanks to the approved use of banked cap, the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education was able to save four elementary school faculty positions, but big staffing reductions are still coming to Columbia High School. On March 21, the BOE passed the $125 million school budget on first reading with […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Durand family has been synonymous with Maplewood since before the township ever received its current name. Most residents probably have at least heard of the Durands, even if just while touring the Durand-Hedden House and Gardens on one of the countless class trips the farmhouse turned local museum has hosted. Yet […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — One in 10 people is sexually abused before age 18, an alarming national statistic that has produced a population of 42 million adults scarred by the childhood crime. Intervention can turn the tide, and during National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April, the Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges will join with YMCAs […]
MILLBURN, NJ — Proving that little hands can make a big difference, more than 120 children, in addition to 40 Girl Scout members, 100 parents and 50 Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills members took part in the fourth annual Kids For Kids, which is a children’s volunteer event organized by JLOSH in […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Gallery 103, located at Geralyn’s Art Studio, 103 Baker St. in Maplewood, will be exhibiting South Orange resident Florence Weisz’s artworks in a solo show, “Sensuous Stripes,” from April 3 through May 5. On view will be art that is all about stripes: 2D and 3D collages, a site […]