WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School art students were busy creating elaborate, carved pumpkins for the “Gardens Aglow” event to be held Friday, Oct. 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, 474 Upper Mountain Ave. in Montclair. Art students from high schools across Essex County are donating their artwork […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Arts Council will host its third anniversary fundraiser on Friday, Nov. 9, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the West Orange Arts Center, 551 Valley Road. The event’s Hollywood theme includes a red carpet entrance, photo booth, door prizes, original artwork, paintings vintage movie posters and Hollywood-themed activities. It […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Municipal Clerk Louise Palagano has assumed the role of recycling coordinator for the township. She is assuming the duties from Department of Public Works employee Joseph Testa. The change occurred in July and she will continue as the municipal clerk. In her Town Hall office recently, Palagano had a clear idea of […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Orange Citizens Action Group will host the second of its Candidates Night forums on Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Valley Arts building on South Jefferson Street in the Valley section of the city, for the six candidates running for the three seats available in the Orange Board of Education election on […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Living in SOMA, two towns just full of “woke” liberals protesting, advocating and organizing, author Elly Lonon, of South Orange, was surrounded by extreme examples of the Left — some for better and some for worse. From her experiences in the towns, as well as her own crushing disappointment and horror […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — After complaints continued at the Oct. 16 West Orange Township Council meeting about the recently opened Aron’s Market on Eagle Rock Avenue due to noise and a lack of garbage collection, the township plans to crack down on the business with fines in an effort to relieve the quality-of-life issues the […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — When the members of the Columbia High School Class of 1968 gathered for their 50th reunion Oct. 19, most probably drove a car or flew on an airplane to reconnect with one another. But one member of that graduating class rode his bicycle 3,092 miles from Missoula, Mont., back to Maplewood, a […]
BLOOMFIELD — The Oranges-Maplewood NAACP will host a community forum on marijuana legalization legislation pending in the state Legislature on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Bloomfield College, College Hall Classroom 016, 467 Franklin St., Bloomfield. The forum will be moderated by 25-time Emmy Award-winner Sandra King, of Rutgers University, the producer […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Memorial Park Conservancy, in partnership with the township of Maplewood, has completed Phase 1 of the Flagpole Hill border restoration, its first major landscape project in Memorial Park. Flagpole Hill is an adaptation of an original 1923 plan for the border of the park along Dunnell Road across from the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — A uniformed Essex County sheriff’s officer was injured when he was struck by an automobile while directing traffic on Eagle Rock Avenue on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 9:20 p.m. The officer, who suffered three broken ribs, was hit by a late model Subaru, which was being operated by a 64-year-old woman. […]