ORANGE/MONTCLAIR, NJ — Orange residents Kalvin Thomas and Sameul Akaho were key contributors in helping to lead the Montclair Kimberley Academy boys track and field team to its first-ever New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public B championship on Saturday, June 8, at Stockton University. The Cougars, who also won the state prep B Division […]
PRINCETON, NJ — Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Executive Director Eve Schaenen was honored with the 2024 John Cotton Dana Award by the New Jersey Association of Museums at the NJAM Annual Meeting on June 12 at the Historical Society of Princeton’s Updike Farmstead. Given every other year, the prestigious Dana Award is awarded […]
An Essex County grand jury has reviewed and dismissed charges against Frank Sanchez, who was accused of assault and endangering a child while working as Columbia High School principal. Sanchez still faces a charge of simple assault, a disorderly persons offense, which will be addressed on a date to be scheduled. The simple assault charge […]
One was a renowned journalist and entrepreneur. The other is an acclaimed saxophonist, keyboardist, vocalist, composer, and producer. The late Ayesha K. Faines, Class of 2004, and Michael C. Ghegan, Class of 1986, were recently inducted into the Columbia High School Hall of Fame. Monica Soliman, CHS teacher of social studies, welcomed attendees to the […]
“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” is a high-energy entertaining musical which follows the early years of Carole King’s rise to success. This Tony-nominated musical, with book by Douglas McGrath, directed by Casey Hushion and with an outstanding 18-member uber-talented cast is a must-see and currently playing at the Paper Mill Playhouse. The show opens […]
The new, 13,000-square-foot Bilal Beasley Community Center was dedicated Friday in Irvington Park. The structure provides modern accommodations for residents to gather and experience the park in a new way and provideS additional space for community groups who regularly utilize the park, according to Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. “The old community center […]
ORANGE — The Orange Education Foundation held its People of Excellence Jazz Brunch on May 4, at the Hanover Manor. About 150 people celebrated the contributions of the five honorees: Pia L. Frazier, Orange Board of Education attendance and truancy interventionist; Dr. Stella N. Korieocha, Optometrist; Janicia M. Jones-Vance, Scholars Academy Pre-School teacher; Ronald C. […]
By Susan FitzGibbon There’s “An Invisible Thread” that holds “My Brilliant Friend(s)” together in our West Orange book group. “One Summer (in) America,” quite a few years ago but not as long ago as 1927 nor even “1984”, we “(The) Forgot(ten) our Garden(s)” and joined together as a club to be “The Interesting(s)” “(The) Group” […]
More than 300 people recently gathered on the front lawn of the B’nai Shalom temple on Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange for the unveiling of a nine-foot tall, 300 pound milk carton with images of hostages. The milk carton with pictures of hostages held by Hamas mimics the advertisements of missing children that were […]
Bess Kalb is an Emmy Award-nominated writer for the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” television show and a journalist with The New Yorker magazine. She’s also the author of the best seller “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True Story.” She recently was at Words Bookstore in Maplewood, reading from her new children’s book, “Buffalo […]