MILLBURN, NJ — Jewish Family Service of MetroWest NJ will hold its annual gala, “An Evening of Laughter,” on Wednesday, June 1, outdoors at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills. The evening will feature a performance by comedian Ryan Hamilton. This year, JFS is honoring the legacy of Maxine Myers and renaming its volunteer department […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The 45th annual South Orange/Maplewood Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service, “Remember & Tell,” will be Sunday, May 15, at 4 p.m. at Oheb Shalom Congregation, 170 Scotland Road in South Orange. The service will be held in person with an option to watch via livestream. All are welcome. The link for the […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Mount St. Dominic Academy, the independent, all-girls Catholic college preparatory school in Caldwell, is hosting the eighth annual MSDA Meghan Doyle ʼ05K, a 5-kilometer run/walk, on the streets of Caldwell and Essex Fells on Saturday, May 7. This event was the brainchild of a Maplewood family, the Doyles, after their daughter […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood School District announced that Columbia High School was ranked No. 59 as one the best public high schools in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report. This publication shared on April 26 that 406 New Jersey schools out of a total of 445 were ranked on six factors […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — South Orange–Maplewood Board of Education student representative Noah Morros asked the BOE for another social worker to be hired at Columbia High School, citing the number of students who are struggling with mental health issues, especially in the wake of the death of sophomore Cole Longworth at the end […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — On Tuesday, April 26, the Essex County Board of County Commissioners held its 2022 “Essex County Celebrates Youth” event via Zoom. The event is held yearly to acknowledge outstanding young people throughout the county who have accomplished and contributed a great deal early in their lives. This year the board recognized: […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University professor James J. Kimble has again shed new light on the origins of the “We Can Do It!” poster commonly referred to as “Rosie the Riveter.” Originally produced in 1943 by J. Howard Miller for the Westinghouse Corp. as part of the factory production effort during World War […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — South Orange, Maplewood, Orange and West Orange residents are rallying around Anthony Brooks and his family in an effort to find him a kidney donor. Brooks lost one of his kidneys to cancer in 2017, and now the disease has spread to his remaining kidney. Now looking for a living kidney […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The College of Communication and the Arts’ Arts Council at Seton Hall University will present the following final events for the spring 2022 season: “Jane Eyre, the Musical” from Thursday, May 5, through Saturday, May 7, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 8, at 2 p.m. at the South Orange Performing […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the Essex County Board of County Commissioners, the Essex County Division of Community Health and Family Connections’ ADAPT Coalition are encouraging residents to dispose of their old or unwanted prescription medications during the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day […]