MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Art Museum has announced that Ira Wagner has been appointed the museum’s executive director. Wagner serves as the 10th director since the museum’s founding in 1914. Upon longtime Director Lora Urbanelli’s retirement last spring, Wagner stepped in as interim director, pending the arrival of a successor. When the pandemic forced the museum […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair will present the Rev. Barbara Meyers, who will lead the workshop “Showing Up for Each Other’s Mental Health.” This online Zoom presentation and discussion will be held Saturday, April 17, from 1 to 3 p.m., with a 10-minute break in the middle. Meyers is a Unitarian Universalist […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — On Tuesday, March 23, Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. called upon members of Essex County’s federal delegation to urge President Biden to allocate more COVID-19 vaccine doses to Essex County. The letter was sent to U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez; U.S. Reps. Donald Payne Jr., Mikie Sherrill, Albio […]
NEW JERSEY — New Jersey Blood Services recently announced a blood shortage in the region, one year after the region was the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic. Before COVID-19, donors could stop by community blood drives at convenient locations like high schools, colleges and offices. It has been one year since these groups had to […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Vanguard Theater Company has been awarded an $18,900 grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to support supplies and equipment expenses associated with resuming in-person programming at 180 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, and sleepaway camp. The COVID Critical Needs program was created by the council to support COVID-19–specific updates for […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Brown University religious studies professor Andre Willis will discuss the Biblical concept of freedom in the modern black and Jewish imaginations on Saturday, March 27, at 11 a.m. at Bnai Keshet in Montclair via Zoom. The talk, “Exodus: Freedom in the Modern Black and Jewish Religious Imaginations,” is free of charge and […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Calling all runners and walkers! Register for the St. Cassian 2021 Cougar Challenge 5K and Fun Run, to be presented virtually by St. Cassian School, a school serving students in pre-K through eighth grade in Upper Montclair. Participants can complete their runs anytime and anywhere between April 16 and 18. All registrants […]
UNION, NJ — Nutley resident Brennan Columbia-Walsh, a 16-year-old junior from Montclair Kimberley Academy, and Alejandro Espinal, a 17-year-old senior at the Academy for Performing Arts in Scotch Plains, have been selected to share first prize in the Theater Project’s prestigious 19th annual Young Playwrights Competition. Ryan Rosenthal, a 16-year-old junior at Cranford High School, […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Montclair Art Museum’s fourth annual “Art Meets Jazz” performance may have had to go virtual this year, but the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop the show from going on. Isaiah J. Thompson took the online stage to perform on March 11, playing some of his own original music and standards that audience […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Art Museum will host a community town hall on Thursday, March 18, inspired by its exhibition “Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell,” which explores modern reinterpretations of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms.” Between the pandemic, racial injustice, the socioeconomic divide and other disparities, the sense of freedom and security has become fragile […]