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Celebrate Earth Week with the Seton Hall University Ecology Club
Photo Courtesy of Laurie Pine Permaculture design students hanging the Earth Day banner on the campus garden gate are, from left, Lukas Howe, Gabi Hunt, Abby Shamray, Rachel Evans, Colin Machat, Tammy...
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NAACP honors local visionaries at Freedom Fund Brunch
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The NAACP of the Oranges and Maplewood will host its Freedom Fund Brunch on Sunday, April 24, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston. The theme of this year’s brunch is...
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Israeli soldiers visit South Orange, put human face on IDF
Photo by Shanee Frazier Golda Och Academy junior Kim Robins, left, recently organized for reserve-duty Israeli soldiers Itai and Ilana, center, to visit Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange to...
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CCR launches video competition for SouthNext project
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The community is invited to bring SOMA’s diversity to the big screen through “My Story,” a video competition hosted by the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on...
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SHU’s Division of Volunteer Efforts partners with South Orange Seniors for...
Photo Courtesy of Marie SomersFrom left are Peggy Cinberg, Michelle Peterson, Nan Samons and Tonia Moore. SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — More than 125 South Orange senior citizens gathered for the Division of...
View ArticleTSTI, WAE Center, Arts Unbound partner to promote inclusion
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE / WEST ORANGE / ORANGE, NJ — Inclusion is part of the communal DNA at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange, from the Reform synagogue’s fully accessible...
View ArticleSouth Orange continues to investigate PFOA in H20
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A likely carcinogen was detected a few months ago in 12 New Jersey water systems at rates above the state’s guidance level, according to a list compiled by the Department of...
View ArticleVanguard brings mentorship program to SOMS
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Vanguard Theater Company recently announced the first phase of a new theater mentorship program. The “Broadway Buddy” program is a mentorship outreach program designed to offer...
View ArticleSouth Orange/Maplewood Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service to be May 1
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange will host the 39th annual South Orange/Maplewood Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service beginning at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 1....
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Service Above Self in South Orange
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Recipients of South Orange Rotary’s Service Above Self awards also recently received legislative resolutions recognizing their impact on the community. From left are Melissa Kopecky,...
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SHU chorus performs spring choral celebration
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall University Choral Program, under the direction of Jason C. Tramm, will perform works of Handel, Randall Thompson, Stephen Paulus, Ernani AguiAr, Moses Hogan and a...
View ArticleYoung artists to display work at Herb & Milly Iris Gallery
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Performing Arts Center presents the best and brightest in its rotating series of visual art exhibitions in the Herb & Milly Iris Gallery...
View ArticleFinalists selected for Seton Hall sustainable development challenge
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The United Nations is getting help achieving its Sustainable Development Goals from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University and high school...
View ArticleLet’s beat cancer
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Center for Advancement in Cancer Education is holding a spring soiree featuring certified holistic cancer educator Susan L. Miller; breast cancer survivor and blogger Chiara...
View ArticleWomen who make a difference to be recognized in memory of Sister Rose Thering
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Writer activist Devorah Halberstam will share her poignant story of the terrorist attack that took her 16-year-old son, Ari, at the 23rd annual Evening of...
View ArticleMake ‘Thyme’ to hear Melanie Conklin at Words tonight
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Time is elusive. We have more time than anything else in our lives, and yet we never truly have enough. We lack the time to do the things we want...
View ArticleSHU students to make ‘A Little Night Music’ at SOPAC
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When it came time to choose the next play for Seton Hall Theatre to perform, producer Peter Reader and musical director Jason Tramm knew they wanted a...
View ArticleConklin speaks to full house at Words
Click to view slideshow. SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — South Orange author Melanie Conklin addressed an audience of more than 30 individuals at Words Bookstore in Maplewood on April 21. She discussed...
View ArticleSouth Orange man killed in East Orange
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and East Orange Public Safety Director Sheilah Coley announced April 22 that the East Orange police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s...
View Article200 Club presents awards to county’s finest police and firefighters
BELLEVILLE, NJ — The 200 Club of Essex County, founded to assist the families of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty and the oldest such organization of its kind, will hold its...
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