WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Arts Council is calling for artists to participate in pop-up shows in June and August at the West Orange Arts Center, 551 Valley Road. Various exhibit opportunities and options are available throughout the summer for local artists to showcase their work in a professional gallery setting in the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Golda Och Academy recently appointed Rabbi Elliot Goldberg as the new Upper School principal, effective July 1. Goldberg comes to Golda Och Academy with more than 20 years of experience working in Jewish day schools. He has served as head of school at the Solomon Schechter Day Schools of Greater Hartford […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, the only private medical school to open in New Jersey, is now accepting applications for its first class to begin in July at the Clifton and Nutley campus, located 12 miles from Manhattan. “Dynamic changes in health care require a new approach […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and acting Maplewood Police Chief Jimmy DeVaul announced March 25 that the Maplewood Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force are investigating a fatal shooting at a restaurant on Springfield Avenue in Maplewood. Altariq A. Brown, 30, of Livingston was […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Monday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Maplewood Memorial Library, 51 Baker St., accomplished gardener and environmentalist Regina Carlson returns to the Maplewood Garden Club with her most recent garden talk: “Plants That Pay Their Rent and Plants That Should Be Evicted.” Based on her experience growing hundreds of kinds of […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Art Educators of New Jersey welcomed 109 students from throughout Essex County to the Hall of Records for the Art Educators of New Jersey student art exhibit on Friday, March 23. This is the 14th consecutive year the county has partnered with the Art Educators of New Jersey to present the […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The First Baptist Church of South Orange has signed a partnership with Pillar College, a Christian-based institution based in Newark, to offer its Life Enhancing Accelerated Degree program at the South Orange church, with classes commencing in September of 2018. The LEAD program offers students the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s […]
PARSIPPANY, NJ — East Orange Mayor Ted Green hosted his first Black Tie Gala at the Hilton Parsippany Hotel on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, and even though he’s not Irish, he said the timing had more to do with serendipity and the old luck of the Irish than anything else. “We know folks […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Students at Roosevelt Middle School held an organized protest on March 14 in honor of the students and staff that lost their lives in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Students lined Gilbert Place and stood in silence for 17 minutes, one minute for each student or staff member killed. “A month […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Seven Columbia High School and two South Orange Middle School students recently won regional Scholastic Art & Writing awards for excellence in visual arts and writing, specifically in photography, flash, short story and poetry. Presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the 95-year-old Scholastic Art & […]