MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood Mayor Vic DeLuca helps award members of Girl Scout Troop 22831 with their Silver Award. From left are Evelyn Van de North, Elliot Foley, Grace Trenouth, DeLuca, Maggie Sheridan and Phoebe Holt-Reiss. Community service projects to earn this award included libraries for Interfaith Hospitality Network families, a pedestrian safety video for […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Joyce Carol Oates visited the Bloomfield College campus Monday evening, Nov. 6, for a one-hour Q & A with BC writing professor Angela Conrad. An audience of 100 at the Van Fossan Art Center listened in. It was more like a chat over a medley of topics with the famous author, and perhaps […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Montclair State University’s African Drumming Ensemble had Seth Boyden School’s staff, students and community members on their feet dancing and drumming their way into the start of something new. Led by John J. Cali School of Music adjunct faculty member Robert Levin, graduate music education coordinator Lisa De Lorenzo and undergraduate music […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — On Thursday, Nov. 9, Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. announced that a $2.8 million project to modernize Rink 1 at Codey Arena is complete. The new refrigeration system will enable the arena to operate more efficiently and will provide a better ice skating surface. This is the first major renovation […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — JESPY House, a community-based nonprofit serving adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, hosted Governor-elect Phil Murphy, who was at the time still on the campaign trail, on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Approximately 120 clients, family members, friends, staff and allies welcomed Murphy so that they could discuss their concerns about recent policy […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The state’s senior representatives in Washington — U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez — spoke from a Bloomfield homeowner’s front lawn on Friday, Nov. 3, to criticize the Republican tax-reform proposal as harmful to New Jersey property owners. Introduced by Mayor Michael Venezia to an assembly of media outlets at the Ferncliff […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — In 1877, the first movie with sound had not yet been introduced to theaters, air conditioning did not yet exist and Thomas Edison was still two years away from inventing the lightbulb. But the JCC MetroWest’s doors were open, and this year it is celebrating its 140th anniversary, with the past […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business and the New Jersey Small Business Development Center celebrated their new partnership with an opening ceremony and ribbon-cutting in Jubilee Hall on the university’s campus in South Orange on Oct. 27. This new partnership gives Seton Hall University the distinction of being the first […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Gas Lamp Players/Teens are set to stage four performances of the musical “Legally Blonde” next week at Ridgewood Avenue School. The show is being directed by Gas Lamp Artistic Director Kristy Graves. According to Graves in an interview earlier this week, she and Glen Ridge resident Heather Ballantyne had chosen “Legally […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Schools throughout Essex County have partnered with the RSVP Center of Essex and Hudson Counties, part of the Jewish Family Service, for the Reading Buddies program, which makes the most of intergenerational friendships. The Reading Buddies, a group of senior citizens, read to small groups of children in Essex County to […]