SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When Scotland Avenue becomes Valley Street you enter downtown South Orange. Just past the traffic light, on the right side of the road, four new works of art grace the walls of a low-slung building. These works utilize the large covered windows on the back of Pandang Restaurant as surfaces for […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Playin’ Around South Orange is back! South Orange Performing Arts Center, the village of South Orange, Seton Hall University and South Orange Village Center Alliance recently announced that the application process for visual artists is now open for the fifth annual Playin’ Around South Orange, a public art project that features […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ –– In response to hundreds of requests from Livingston and West Orange residents, OurBus is organizing a new commuter bus service from the two New Jersey towns to Midtown Manhattan. OurBus is a New York-based technology company that connects groups of commuters with licensed luxury motor coach companies. Any group of 100 or […]
NEWARK, NJ — NJ Transit is rolling out several customer-focused initiatives in preparation for Amtrak’s repair work at Penn Station New York and the associated service changes this summer. Customers can now begin purchasing their monthly passes for July, which include the deeply discounted fares to Hoboken for Morris & Essex Midtown Direct customers. Customers […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — “My America” opened Sunday, June 25 at the ACL Art Gallery, 2110 Town Center Way in Livingston. Meet local artists and see the amazing talents of some of your neighbors. Refreshments will be served. The “My America” show runs until Sept. 11. In keeping with the theme of “My America,” artists will […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Coleen French, the administrative secretary and self-described “chief cook and bottle washer” at Watsessing Elementary School, will be retiring at the end of this month. French has worked in the school district for 17 years. She started in 1999 at the administrative building where she helped establish the administrative services department. For the […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Rotary Club is sending 20 city children to the Frost Valley YMCA camp in upstate New York for two weeks this summer, thanks to a grant from the Ralph Arrington Foundation. The lucky children and their parents met with the Rotarians inside the East Orange General Hospital Board […]
Transform your tomorrows for both you and your loved ones by making wise financial decisions now. Join Transamerica at an informative life-changing event with light refreshment on Thursday, June 29 at 6 p.m. at Van Tassel Funeral Home, 337 Belleville Ave., Bloomfield.
IRVINGTON, NJ — The East Orange Rotary Club is sending 20 city children to the Frost Valley YMCA camp in upstate New York for two weeks this summer, thanks to a grant from the Ralph Arrington Foundation. Rotary Club Assistant Governor Cassandra Graham of District 7470, which serves both East Orange and Irvington, said she […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Ed Brasseur, 84, a township resident who regularly attended council meetings and often addressed the council with a question or opinion, was found dead at his Lindbergh Boulevard home on Thursday, June 15, the victim of an apparent heart attack. A next door neighbor, Dennis Blomgren, said he became concerned after noticing a […]