GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Former Glen Ridge resident Dick Gersh, 88, still says so: After 55 years in show business, Jackie Gleason remains the most extraordinary person he has ever met. Even from the first. It was 1952 and Gersh, by his own admission, had the top music publicity office in America. He knew that Gleason […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — It has been 15 years since terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, ending the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent people. In that time a lot has changed in the nation. The Pentagon has been fully repaired while the World Trade Center site now hosts a pristine memorial. Life […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Elizabeth and Peter J. Longo of West Orange celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary today, Sept. 15, with their children, Patricia Bolles, Diana Longo, Peter M. Longo and his wife, Lisa Olesky. Elizabeth “Betty,” nee Raycheck, was born in Uniontown, Pa. Her widowed mother raised seven children on a small farm during […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The village and the South Orange Village Center Alliance celebrated the grand opening of Pet Wants in South Orange, the first store of this national franchise to open in New Jersey, on Saturday, Sept. 10, with a “leash-cutting” ceremony. Activities at the event included face painting of dog and cat faces […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Tuesday, Sept. 6, marked the start of the new school year in West Orange and the picture-perfect morning highlighted the excitement at all 11 West Orange public schools. Photos Courtesy of Cynthia Cumming, Sylvia Rowan, Buzz1441 and Keisha Griffith.
LIVINGSTON, NJ — This fall the Linda and Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women is celebrating its 35th anniversary, a milestone in its rich history of helping women to gain independence, self-esteem, life skills and career opportunities. The Center for Women was established in 1981 in response to a need for support for women within […]
Prior to school starting, addition of kiss-and-go lane and bus loop is finished at Gregory School
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The long-debated bus driveway and parking lot expansion at Gregory Elementary School is now largely completed, though a few relatively minor items still have to be installed. Leonard Lepore, the township engineer, said all the work necessary to construct the looping driveway in front of the school and the enlarged staff […]
Maplewood native Karen Eriksson-Lee sets the stage for the future generation of ballet dancers
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — To many, dancing is as essential as breathing. This is certainly true for Karen Eriksson-Lee, the Columbia High School graduate who recently opened a dance school in New York City, just a PATH ride away. Eriksson-Lee and friend Leslie Seeger recently opened NYC Classical Training in the West Village. Prior to this, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Labor Day weekend, at least the Saturday right before the holiday, looked to be a ho-hum day at the Glen Ridge Community Pool. Not many people were there, even with the pool closing for the season in two days. This may have been caused by a threat from an off-coast hurricane that […]
Work proceeds slowly to restore historic St. Mark’s Church
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The restoration of the historic St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is progressing slowly but surely in the wake of the New Year’s Day fire that left the 188-year-old local icon severely damaged. Minister Sergio Artiles Jr. of the Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church, the congregation that occupied the building up until the […]