WEST ORANGE, NJ — Fifty-three West Orange High School seniors recently received their Tri-M Music Honor Society cords for graduation as several outstanding musicians were recognized for excellence in music. It was an exciting year for the music department at West Orange High School. Highlights included a national championship for the marching band, a sold-out […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Saturday, June 11, the South Orange Rescue Squad took part in the fifth annual Bayshore EMS Cadet Competition, hosted by the Keyport First Aid Squad in Keyport, N.J. Competing against 35 other cadet teams, the South Orange Rescue Squad team won first place in the Advanced Team category as well […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — FAMILYConnections recently honored James Laird, award-winning chef of Chatham’s Restaurant Serenade, and former Maplewood Mayor Ellen M. Davenport at the Westminster Hotel in Livingston during “A Taste of NJ’s Best.” Laird received FAMILYConnections’ 2017 Champion of the People Award for his work in mentoring young people. Davenport received FAMILYConnections’ 2017 Lifetime […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Avalon Bay is restoring what was lost in the six-alarm fire that tore through the Avalon Apartments construction site on Feb. 4, destroying approximately two-thirds of the site. The fire, which took approximately four hours and 120 firefighters to extinguish, destroyed the work already done of phases 2 and 3 of the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Demarest Elementary School teacher Cynthia McKee will be retiring at the end of this month. McKee, who taught special education for 10 years in Maryland and New York State before coming to Bloomfield, taught first grade at Demarest for 30 years. However she confessed to actually beginning in the district, on a part-time […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Spearheaded by the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey, in conjunction with Daughters of Israel’s recreation department, students from West Orange High School conducted oral histories on the lives of 15 residents at Daughters. The year-long project was part of the students’ ninth-grade world history honors class, taught by Doug Drabik. […]
Residents wear orange in memory of those lost to gun violence, call for ‘commonsense’ laws
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Dozens of community members gathered under the gazebo of the Hilton Branch of the Maplewood Public Library on Friday, June 2, for the second SOMA Wear Orange rally, in honor of those lost to gun violence and to raise awareness about the need for stronger measures to prevent recurring tragedies. Wear Orange […]
Display sheds light on West Orange’s history while drawing people into the Main Street corridor
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Visitors to City Workshop Men’s Supply Company will find something unique on display. There, among the racks of clothing, stands a large antique wooden beam with several replicas of historic lightbulbs attached to it. One could categorize the piece as an example of steampunk design, but it is by no means […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A Maplewood Boy Scout distributed hundreds of books to the students of a Newark public school last month as part of a project to qualify as an Eagle Scout. Max Spiegel, a 17-year-old member of Troop 5, collected and donated approximately 500 books to roughly 260 students in kindergarten through eighth grade […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The vendor that rents the West Orange Recycling Center has implemented an odor-suppression system in an effort to prevent the foul smell of mulch from spreading to the nearby residential neighborhood. Reliable Wood Products installed the system in April at the request of the township, which has received complaints about the […]