BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Every year, the Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce will hold an awards dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 5:30 p.m. at The Brookside Banquets, 41 Broughton Ave. in Bloomfield. The chamber acknowledges businesses that have made major capital investments and improvements to their property and businesses that are celebrating an anniversary in […]
NEWARK, NJ — The New Jersey Performing Arts Center will host the 11th TD James Moody Jazz Festival from Nov. 8 through 20. This year’s program offers events combining jazz luminaries in collaboration with artists known for R&B, poetry, hip-hop and more. The festival kickstarts Thursday, Nov. 10, with two powerhouse concerts: One of the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge’s art department will hold an art luncheon, featuring Glen Ridge resident Ellen Eagle, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the club, 219 Ridgewood Ave. The luncheon begins at noon, to be followed by the program at 1 p.m. Eagle has been painting for 30 years and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — After a two-year postponement due to the pandemic, Kelly Elementary School students, parents and teachers again participated in National Walk to School Day on Oct. 13. This marks the seventh year that the school has promoted the event to encourage healthy exercise and bring attention to the need for safe streets. […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Provident Bank Foundation is helping United Community Corp. in its mission to combat hunger across Newark by awarding the agency a $20,000 grant award dedicated to its food distribution program. UCC’s food distribution program is a year-round program that reaches more than 100,000 food-insecure community members per year, providing low-income, predominately […]
WATCHUNG, NJ — On Oct. 18, members of the Students of Color Affinity Group and Art Club at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung co-hosted a paint-and-sip event to celebrate Latinx art and culture, and the culmination of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Amelia Benjamin provided students with art by Hispanic and Latinx artists as sources of […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Rotary Club commemorated World Polio Day on Oct. 24. The club, founded in 1928, is part of Rotary International, a humanitarian organization of 1.2 million members in more than 32,000 clubs throughout the world. In 1985, Rotary launched Polio Plus and, in 1988, helped establish the Global Polio […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Early Music’s recorder and string ensemble, under the direction of Sandy Meltzer, will bring history to life through music once again at Montclair Public Library, 50 S. Fullerton Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m. The program will showcase choral and instrumental music that are uniquely American, plus a few […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — “It’s just my calling, my gift from God,” said mathematics instructional coach Robin Lewis as she reflected on more than four decades working as an educator. With just over 44 years in the district, that’s a whopping 16,070 days, 385,680 hours and 23,140,800 minutes of Lewis instructing East Orange’s youth. But […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Symphony is thrilled to return home to South Orange Middle School, 70 N. Ridgewood Road in South Orange, for a free fall concert on Sunday, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. Susan Haig conducts an exciting nature-themed program, featuring Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s splendid Symphony No. 8 in G […]