EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Rotary Club is sending 20 city children to the Frost Valley YMCA camp in upstate New York for two weeks this summer, thanks to a grant from the Ralph Arrington Foundation. The lucky children and their parents met with the Rotarians inside the East Orange General Hospital Board […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The East Orange Rotary Club is sending 20 city children to the Frost Valley YMCA camp in upstate New York for two weeks this summer, thanks to a grant from the Ralph Arrington Foundation. Rotary Club Assistant Governor Cassandra Graham of District 7470, which serves both East Orange and Irvington, said she […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — This year’s variety show at Seth Boyden, held May 13, brought together a series of original fifth-grade skits with acts by students in the younger grades. The title of the show, aptly, was “Unity.” The event was the culmination of the 10-week Fifth Grade Performance Project, a labor of love for veteran […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The members of Camptown Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1941 celebrated Mother’s Day by hosting a pre-Mother’s Day Breakfast at the post building on Chestnut Street on Saturday, May 13, the day before the official national celebration. “We all have mothers and we all came here on earth from a woman, so […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Linda and Rudy Slucker Religious School at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange recently sponsored a pound fit class to benefit Girls Helping Girls. Period., which distributes feminine hygiene products to girls and women in need. Approximately two dozen women, whose children attend the religious school or are synagogue members, […]
EAST ORANGE/ORANGE, NJ — The members of North Jersey Links, Montclair Drifters, the Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha sororities, The Northeasterners, The Girlfriends, and Jack and Jill of America have joined to form the “Sisters In the Movement Consortium,” to work together to promote the interests of women of color. This new group […]
Former mayor of Bloomfield, New Jersey, John I. Crecco, a decorated World War II Veteran and humanitarian, passed on to eternal life on April 1, 2017 at the age of 96. Those who knew John understand why his is the Greatest Generation. Driven by love, compassion, courage, patriotism and an iron will, John […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Jewel Burnett, a senior co-captain of the record-breaking West Orange High School girls basketball team, has been named to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association North All-Star Team. The NJSIAA North-South All-Star game is set for March 19 at Rider University in Lawrenceville. “I was surprised when Mr. Bligh (West […]
Jennie (Jean) Marie Bowden (Complitano), age 89, formerly of Bloomfield NJ, died Wednesday February 1, 2017 at the Twin Pines Health Care Center in West Grove, PA. She was the wife of the late Robert James Bowden who died in 1989 and with whom she shared thirty-eight years of marriage. Born in Belleville, […]
George Lucariello, a 58 year resident of Bloomfield, passed away on Sunday, January 1, 2017. He was 92. Born in Jersey City, George was a lifelong fan of the New York Giants and Yankees and enjoyed his day trips to Atlantic City. He was a hardworking owner and operator of a family business. […]