The Gas Lamp Junior Mainstage Players will present “Singin’ in the Rain” on Friday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov 17, at 1 p.m. The stage musical is based on the 1952 movie musical starring Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, Debbie Reynolds as Kathy […]
The Glen Ridge Environmental Committee staged its third annual Pumpkin Smash on Saturday morning, Nov. 2. The event, held at the Benson Street Garden, gave parents and kids goggles, mallets and the opportunity to wack to smithereens the Halloween pumpkins and gourds that a few days before were their honored guests. But it was for […]
Glen Ridge hosted its inaugural Diwali Diya lighting celebration on Sunday, Oct. 27, at the steps of Borough Hall. The event transformed Borough Hall into a vibrant festival of lights, celebrating the cultural richness of Diwali. The growing South Asian community has enhanced the town’s diversity, and this year, the Glen Ridge Board of Education […]
There was a pumpkin hunt at Carteret Park this past Saturday morning. It was a quick affair with about 50 parents and their kids waiting at the playground for Jim Cowan, the Recreation Department director, to give his directions. Standing at a lamppost with an open crate of pumpkins at his feet, he did. “Everybody […]
The Kiwanis Club of Glen Ridge held its ninth annual fall food tasting fundraiser Monday night, Oct. 21, at the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, and it was a passing of the guard. The event is the service organization’s biggest money maker, but this year had a different name and different co-chairs. Before, the event […]
Preparations for winter were undertaken at the Benson Street Garden, on Saturday morning, Oct. 12, with volunteers from different corners of the borough coming together to pull stubborn tendrils and harvest vegetables. The workers included confirmation candidates at Sacred Heart Church, the Glen Ridge High School Girls’ Club and the Glen Ridge Environmental Board. Councilwoman […]
There were always two sides to his life, George Musser said at a Broad Street coffee counter last week. A trained scientist, Musser, 59, is also a writer and the author of “Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation,” a 2023 Farrar, Strauss and Girous publication about how the human brain sometimes reconfigures physical evidence to […]
Ryan Bridge has been selected as the new music director at Christ Episcopal Church. A graduate of Belleville High School, class of ‘10, Bridge attended the Manhattan School of Music for classical piano and organ, and received his masters in classical piano at Montclair State University where he also was a graduate assistant in theory […]
The recreation department is exhibiting, at the Ridgewood Avenue train station until the end of October, works by four Glen Ridge artists. The show is co-curated by Stephanie Kosbuka and Megan Giulianelli. It opened Saturday, Sept. 14. “This is our first group show,” Guilianelli said at the opening. “In the past, we’ve only had one […]
There are no coincidences in deep space. So while Sunday, Sept. 8, was National Star Trek Day, the date in 1966 when the world was introduced to Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the Starship Enterprise, the current month-long Star Trek memorabilia exhibit at the Glen Ridge Public Library is just a coincidence, according to Bob […]