WEST ORANGE, NJ — While parents and students are rushing around to get supplies together for the coming school year, so are teachers. In the West Orange School District, teachers from across the district have created Amazon wish lists containing various items expected to enhance the learning experience for students during the upcoming school year. […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Are New Jersey municipalities following state laws regarding sick and vacation leave? According to a recent report from the Office of the State Comptroller, the answer is an overwhelming no. In the report, “A Review of Sick and Vacation Leave Policies in New Jersey Municipalities,” which was released July 7, the OSC […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ –– The Montclair State University Galleries has announced “Case Studies,” a new series of exhibitions in the Alexander Kasser Theater Cases. This exhibit, ‘Case Studies 1,’ which runs Sept. 1 through Dec. 9, brings together never before seen and recent works by Damien Davis on loan from Uprise Art that explore blackness through […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Luna Stage, a professional theater in West Orange, has announced that fall classes for youths and adults — including scene study, improv, musical theater, Shakespeare, creative drama for grades K-2, creative response team for teens and a new stage combat program — will begin Sept. 20. All Luna programs are pay-what-you-choose […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded $25 million to 181 public housing agencies experiencing or at risk of experiencing financial shortfalls, according to an Aug. 23 press release. This funding, provided by the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, will enable PHAs to continue serving residents as they take steps to […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — It takes a community to cure childhood cancer. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, will host one of its signature head-shaving events at The Shillelagh Club, 648 Prospect Ave. in West Orange, on Saturday, Sept. 10. Dozens of men, women and children […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — On Tuesday, Sept. 6, from 7:30 to 10 p.m., the Oratorio Society of New Jersey will begin rehearsals for its 70th anniversary season at Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave. in Montclair. The first concert of the season, scheduled for Nov. 19, will feature Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Singers in […]
NEWARK, NJ — Five relics and a life-sized statue of St. Pio, the first priest in the Catholic Church’s history to bear the stigmata wounds of Jesus’ crucifixion, will be on public display at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart this September as part of the Saint Pio Foundation’s ongoing “I Embrace You” tour […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Community-based agriculture is the process of demonstrating the harmonious relationship between people, nature and community. Join Maplewood Garden Club on Monday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 when Tobias Fox presents “Urban Agriculture as a Catalyst for Community Development.” As founder and managing director of the community-driven, nonprofit organization Newark Science and Sustainability Inc., […]
NEWARK, NJ — New Jersey Institute of Technology has been awarded three Upward Bound grants by the U.S. Department of Education totaling $1,168,939 that will help pave the way for hundreds of Newark high school students to pursue a college degree. Upward Bound — one of seven federal TRiO programs created by the Higher Education […]