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MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Literacy Volunteers of America, of Essex and Passaic counties, seeks volunteer tutors to help adults learn to speak, read and write English. Many of these students — refugees and other...
View ArticleService in El Salvador, a pilgrimage of DOVEs
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Division of Volunteer Efforts at Seton Hall University again this year sent students, faculty members and administrators on a service trip to El Salvador. In total, 28 took the...
View ArticleCollum, DDF face off at forum
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The two candidates who are running for village president faced off in a forum hosted by the Academy Heights Neighborhood Association on April 24. Incumbent Sheena Collum and...
View ArticleSO author makes mark with debut novel
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Envy. Obsession. Disappointment. Need. Malice. Ego. Impotence. All of these themes and many more swirl around the unnamed protagonist in “Looker,” the debut novel from South Orange...
View ArticleRocking on with WSOU 89.5
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Pirates and music is an illegal combination just about everywhere except South Orange, where WSOU 89.5 FM, Seton Hall’s Pirate Radio, operates. These pirates are of the collegiate...
View ArticleECPO to offer domestic violence course
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Prosecutor’s Office will offer a free course to equip volunteers and others in the community with training to provide outreach services and crisis intervention to...
View ArticleArea Jews pray together following anti-Semitic attack
SOUTH ORANGE / WEST ORANGE, NJ — Under the leadership of commissioner Steven Weiner, the entire Temple Brotherhood Softball League paused for prayer before the start of its games on Sunday, April 28,...
View ArticleU.N. Indigenous Peoples delegates visit CHS
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School held an Indigenous Peoples Celebration on the evening of May 2, welcoming members of the Indigenous Peoples Committee at the United Nations. The event was organized...
View ArticleAutism NJ, SHU to partner on public policy initiatives
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Behavioral Practices in Clinical and School-Based Settings Research Lab, run by Brian Conners, a faculty associate in the Applied Behavior Analysis and special education programs...
View ArticleLet’s go fishing in Essex County
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs will hold the 2019 Fishing Derbies in six locations in the Essex County Park System. “Our fishing derbies are an...
View ArticleMCC to celebrate longtime resident, businesswoman
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood Chamber of Commerce will honor Claudine Baptiste and BCB Community Bank as the recipients of its 2019 Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, May 23, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at...
View Article9 candidates seek 3 open seats on BOT
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Residents will vote for three new members of the Board of Trustees on Tuesday, May 14, choosing from nine candidates. The candidates are running on three slates: “SO Forward” with...
View ArticleRandolph man sentenced to 10 years for exposing himself to schoolchildren
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II announced May 7 that Kenneth Palmer, a former paraprofessional at Jefferson Elementary School in Maplewood, has been sentenced to 10...
View ArticlePHOTO: Columbia HS seniors presented with Essex County Scholastic Award
MAPLEWOOD, NJ –Pictured: Columbia High School seniors Leah Miller, left, and Cecilia Munoz, right, were presented with the Essex County Scholastic Award, which recognizes the top two students at each...
View ArticleFreeholders celebrate exceptional youth from Essex County
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held its annual “Essex County Celebrates Youth” program on Wednesday, April 24, at the Hall of Records in Newark. This annual event...
View ArticleCollum, DDF vie to be president
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Residents will vote Tuesday, May 14, for one of two candidates to be village president, choosing between incumbent Sheena Collum and current South Orange Trustee Deborah Davis Ford....
View ArticleSOEC, Green Team awarded sustainability grant
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Green Team and the Environmental Commission were awarded a $2,000 Sustainable Jersey capacity-building grant funded by the PSEG Foundation. Four $20,000 grants,...
View ArticleTour the park with MMPC
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Memorial Park Conservancy will host a tour of the park on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. Conservancy board members Ginny Kurshan and David Nial will lead a tour highlighting...
View ArticleAnnual Holocaust service moves 2 towns
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange and Maplewood Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Committee sponsored the 42nd annual remembrance service at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in South Orange on...
View ArticleResidents unite to clear trash from Rahway River
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Steady rainfall didn’t stop South Orange residents from pulling on their galoshes and wading into the Rahway River to celebrate River Day on Sunday, May 5, cleaning trash out of the...
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