MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Front and Center for Performing Arts will present the musical “Children of Eden,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird, at The Woodland, 60 Woodland Road in Maplewood, this weekend. Showtimes are Friday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 21, at 1 and 7 p.m.; […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Hilton Neighborhood Association’s Thursday, Jan. 19, meeting at 7:30 p.m. in DeHart Community Center, 120 Burnett Ave. in Maplewood, will feature Melissa Mancuso, recently appointed director of Maplewood’s recreation and cultural arts. Mancuso will discuss opportunities offered, new programs and plans for the future; this event will also offer community members […]
NEWARK, NJ — The National Council of Negro Women, Section of the Oranges, will celebrate its 34th Harambee breakfast on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 149 Springfield Ave. in Newark. The breakfast’s theme is “Keeping the Lights On: Education, Activism and Sisterhood,” with guest speaker Maretta J. […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The MetroEast Region of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners is hosting its monthly networking luncheon Thursday, Jan. 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Greek Taverna, 292 Bloomfield Ave. in Montclair. The topic for this event is “New Year’s Solutions to Get Business Booming,” presented by personal […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange Performing Arts Center had been nominated for Favorite Small Performing Arts Center in the 2017 JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Awards. SOMA Film Festival, co-produced by SOPAC, is nominated for Favorite Film Festival. Now in its ninth year, the annual awards program run by Discover Jersey Arts pays tribute to the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Mountainside Hospital has a newbie. It is the newly renovated maternity ward which opened last summer and is now coming into the news because, well, a newly designed maternity ward goes hand-in-hand with the first arrival of the the New Year. According to Jennifer Waters, director of women’s services, the improvements at […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is still a long way from being restored after a fire tore through the nearly 200-year-old historical structure on New Year’s Day 2016, but one year later progress is being made. West Orange construction official Tom Tracey said the building’s walls have been shored and its windows […]
Town’s Scouts open arms to boy booted from his pack
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A Maplewood Cub Scout pack has offered to take in an 8-year-old transgender boy who made international headlines after being asked to leave his Secaucus pack due to his gender identity. Cub Scout Pack 20 leader Kyle Hackler said he sent an invitation to Joe Maldonado and his family through the journalist […]
NEWARK, NJ — The new year began just as last year ended, with the People’s Organization for Progress hosting its 48th consecutive “Justice Monday” protest outside the federal building on Broad Street in downtown Newark on Monday, Jan. 2. P.O.P. Chairman Larry Hamm and protesters braved 10-degree weather outside the federal building Monday, Jan. 9, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Join one of the nurse practitioners from The Heart Centers at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston to learn about living a heart-healthy life on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 2:30 p.m. at Winchester Gardens’ auditorium, 333 Elmwood Ave. in Maplewood. This event is sponsored by the Maplewood Health Department.