BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Charles Seller Foundation Talent Time Players will be presenting, this week and next week, its 67th annual stage production to benefit a local resident with extraordinary medical expenses. Seven performances of “Footloose: The Musical” will be presented at Bloomfield High School beginning tonight at 8 p.m. Additional shows are scheduled for Aug. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — InterACT Theatre Productions will presents its annual musical revue benefit “interACT Sings!” at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts in Maplewood this Friday, Aug. 5, and Saturday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m.. Each year offers a new theme, and this year’s gala, “Stay Tuned,” celebrates music in television. Broadway star Brandi […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The Essex County Freeholder Housing & Community Development Oversight Committee is partnering with several municipal libraries to co-host a program for Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods representatives to present the SUN Initiative, a program that helps homeowners in foreclosure repurchase their homes with mortgages they can afford. The representatives will be at the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange residents are paying a little more in property taxes than they did last year per the Essex County Board of Taxation’s recently issued 2016 Certification of Tax Rate, the document that sets the definitive legal tax rate for the township. The certification sets the 2016 tax rate at $3.89, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — South Orange-Maplewood School District administrators seem to be traveling through a revolving door. The latest SOMSD administrator to announce his resignation is Maplewood Middle School Assistant Principal Marc Gold. In the fall, Gold will be assistant principal at Frelinghuysen Middle School in Morristown, where former South Orange Middle School Principal Joseph Uglialoro […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Jewish Family Service of MetroWest NJ has been awarded the contract to administer Essex County SHIP, or State Health Insurance Assistance Program. SHIP is a statewide program that provides free, objective, confidential help to New Jersey Medicare beneficiaries who have problems with or questions about Medicare, Medigap, Medicare Advantage Plans, Medicare […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Jewish Family Service of MetroWest NJ understands that back to school season is a hectic and stressful time for parents and children each year, as certain transition points in school can be particularly challenging, according to a recent press release. To help alleviate some of the anxiety, JFS will be offering […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The RSVP Center of Essex and Hudson Counties is launching a Reading Buddies program, which will connect volunteers age 55 and older with elementary school students in Essex County. Reading Buddies seeks to introduce the love of books and increase the literacy of young children. Early literacy is linked with academic […]
CALDWELL – Longtime – but now former – Mount Saint Dominic Academy head tennis coach Bob Reich remembers it as if it were just yesterday. “It was her freshman year, 2006, and she was playing second singles,” Reich recounts of the first-ever varsity match played by his replacement, new MSDA tennis mentor Brianna Turano, a […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — RSVP Center of Essex & Hudson Counties volunteers, from left, Gertrude Freeman, Linda Israel, Joan Bender and Sandye Garrison Gertrude, all of West Orange, were recently honored. Israel and Bender were awarded the Bronze President’s Volunteer Service Award for 100 hours of service each and Garrison Gertrude was awarded the Gold […]