BELLEVILLE, NJ — Belleville resident Anthony Rea recently completed his eighth season as the head football coach at Montclair Kimberley Academy, guiding a very young Cougars squad to a highly-competitive 4-6 record. Rea (39-39 record), who had previously been an assistant coach at MKA and William Paterson University, took over the reins of the Cougar […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Good Bottle Refill Shop, New Jersey’s first zero-waste refill shop, with locations in Maplewood and Montclair, expanded into food refills in its Springfield Avenue location in Maplewood. Maplewood welcomed the expanded store with a festive ribbon-cutting on Saturday, Nov. 13. Good Bottle owner Deanna Taylor-Heacock officially cut the blue ribbon — which […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange resident Ayantu Flowers, a senior at Montclair Kimberley Academy, is now getting ready for her fourth varsity season as a top player for the Cougars girls basketball team. But during the 2021 fall season she enjoyed another solid campaign as a top defender for the MKA field hockey team […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley resident Patricia Columbia-Walsh, a student at Montclair Kimberley Academy, was joined by family members when she signed her National Letter of Intent on Nov. 10 to play women’s lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania. The senior standout is coming off a superb 2021 spring season in which she led the Cougars […]
EAST ORANGE / CLIFTON, NJ — Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin and Assemblywoman Britnee Timberlake are calling on residents, businesses and organizations in the 34th Legislative District to support their 2021 holiday toy and book drive, which last year handed out hundreds of toys and books to children ages 3 to 15. “We want to extend […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — This Thanksgiving will be a special time for Jill Szalony, 51, of Montclair. Szalony; her husband, Alex Samuelson; and their three children, Benjamin, 22, Grace, 20, and Jesse, 18, are celebrating the give-year anniversary of Szalony’s life-saving heart transplant. In 2006, Szalony’s health issues became a concern when she was diagnosed with […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — After decades of local advocacy and outreach and more than three years of direct negotiations, the Essex–Hudson Greenway Coalition announced Nov. 12 that the state of New Jersey will secure purchase rights to nearly 9 miles of former railway, spanning two counties and eight municipalities in one of the most highly […]
NEWARK / MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Oratorio Society of New Jersey will be performing its first live, in-person concerts since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The concerts will take place on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 8 p.m. at Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave. in Montclair, and Sunday, Nov. 21, at 3 p.m. at […]
NEWARK, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. hosted the 2021 Essex County Italian American Heritage Month celebration on Thursday, Oct. 28, in the county’s Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Building. During the event, DiVincenzo recognized Judith M. Persichilli, commissioner of the N.J. Department of Health, and Frank J. Del Gaudio, director of […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Following unanimous Congressional and presidential approval of the 9/11 National Memorial Trail, the Essex–Hudson Greenway Coalition has renewed its call for the creation of the proposed park, a critical component of the newly designated federal trail. The national designation of the 9/11 National Memorial Trail — a 1,300-mile multi-use route that […]