ORANGE, NJ — The Orange Housing Authority will host its 11th annual Youth Scholarship Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 12, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, 100 Tillinghast Turn, Scotch Plains. A host of business and civic luminaries will be among the field of golfers to help raise $50,000 in support of the higher education aspirations […]
NEWARK, NJ — Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced Aug. 30 the 14 recipient organizations that will receive funding from the Nourishing Newark Community Grants Program. The city of Newark is investing $2 million to support community-based organizations to combat hunger and food insecurity resulting from and worsened by the adverse economic impacts related to COVID-19. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield farmers market continues through the fall and is seeking new vendors. The market takes place every Tuesday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. until Oct. 25 in the Bloomfield Public Library courtyard, 90 Broad St. City Green brings its Veggie Mobile each week with fresh produce; it accepts Visa, MasterCard and […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Superintendent of Schools Ronald G. Taylor announced the appointment of Ann Bodnar, a more than 20-year South Orange–Maplewood School District employee and district alumna, to the position of assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction effective immediately, according to an Aug. 30 press release. The SOMA Board of Education approved […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The fourth annual CJ Morgan Foundation golf outing and brunch reached its $50,000 goal to ultimately provide a $100,000 endowment to West Point at an event held at Rock Spring Golf Club on Aug. 29. The endowment is in memory of Christopher “CJ” Morgan, a beloved member of the West Orange […]
NEWARK, NJ — Columbia Bank recently sponsored the 2022 Historically Black College or University Scholarship Ride, an annual 216-mile bike ride from Newark to Howard University in Washington, D.C. The program was instituted to raise scholarship monies awarded to high school graduates in Newark who will attend an HBCU, and help bridge the gap between […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Watershed Literary Events, a spoken-word series sponsored by the Department of Cultural Affairs in South Orange, will host two award-winning poets in-person at the Skate House, corner of Mead Street and Meadowbrook Lane, on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. The featured poets are Anne Marie Macari and Anton Yakovlev. The […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The world’s largest grassroots fundraising movement, Relay for Life mobilizes communities throughout the country to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and provide participants with an opportunity to fight back against cancer. Nutley once again held a communitywide Relay for Life event, on Friday night, Aug. 19, at […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The Darren Clark Jr. Memorial foundation hosted a Back-to-School Mental Health Day at Watsessing Park in East Orange on Saturday, Aug. 27. The event served more than 100 underserved students from Essex County, providing backpacks or messenger bags filled with age-appropriate school supplies to students who participated in the four activities […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The release of a butterfly, symbolizing the spiritual flight of a loved one’s soul, but also an escape from personal mourning, took place Saturday, Aug. 27, at Van Tassel Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Approximately 20 local people, including Bloomfield residents and children, attended the event, which, notwithstanding its novelty, was solemn and […]