CHS Scholarship Fund extends its application deadline to May 17
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School Scholarship Fund has extended its application deadline to Monday, May 17. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the CHSSF will not be distributing...
View ArticleFour candidates vie for three open South Orange Board of Trustees seats
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — While many people may be thinking ahead to the primary elections on June 8, South Orange residents have a vital election coming up much sooner. On May 11, villagers will have to...
View ArticleSOPAC to hold scavenger hunt as virtual fundraiser this May
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Performing Arts Center will hold its new spring fundraiser, a scavenger hunt, during the first weekend of May, from Saturday, May 1, at 10 a.m. to Sunday, May 2, at...
View ArticleAchieve’s Maker Madness ‘Take and Make’ edition
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — This year, the Achieve Foundation’s popular, family-friendly Maker Madness event moves from the Columbia High School cafeteria to each participant’s kitchen table and...
View ArticleFormer Columbian co-editors helm their Ivy League school newspapers
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — For the first few months of 2021, all eight Ivy League colleges had campus newsrooms led by women. Until March, when annual elections at Dartmouth College’s The Dartmouth...
View ArticleTree-killing emerald ash borer beetle seen in South Orange
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The emerald ash borer, a tree-killing beetle, has invaded South Orange, according to the village. Residents may have noticed South Orange Department of Public Works employees taking...
View ArticleDiscard unused medications safely on Drug Take Back Day
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the Essex County Board of County Commissioners, the Essex County Division of Community Health, and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse...
View ArticleThings are about to get twisted in Meadowland Park in South Orange
SOUTH ORANGE — There seems to be a national day for everything these days. Case in point: April 26 is National Pretzel Day. The Meadowland Park Conservancy, hot off of the success of its celebration of...
View ArticleCommunity Coalition on Race sponsors 2021 Conversations on Race
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Thursday, April 29, the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race and Seton Hall University will co-host Conversations on Race, an annual community dialogue...
View ArticlePutting the pieces together at the library for a connected community
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When Makers Month started on March 19, the South Orange Public Library asked people to take home a blank puzzle piece and decorate it in whichever way their imaginations took them....
View ArticleCelebrate Arbor Day as grant brings 64 new trees to South Orange
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — New trees paid for by a grant from New Jersey Urban Community Forestry and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection will begin being planted throughout South Orange in...
View ArticleThe South Orange–Maplewood Adult School releases its spring catalog
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood Adult School has released its digital spring catalog and many classes are starting soon. The “Active Mind” section offers several art history...
View ArticleSouth Orange–Maplewood community remembers the Holocaust at annual interfaith...
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange and Maplewood community came together on April 18 for “Remember & Tell: The SOMA Interfaith Holocaust Service,” to remember the 6 million Jewish...
View ArticleUCC’s Torres, Joy sisters, others receive Making a Difference Award
MAHWAH, NJ — This past year, as communities across New Jersey and the country faced an array of challenges caused by the pandemic, concern over racial injustice unrest and natural disasters, unsung...
View ArticleVandalism at Mayapple Hill field in South Mountain Reservation
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Someone in a heavy, four-wheel drive vehicle drove in concentric circles tearing up the grassy field at Mayapple Hill in the South Mountain Reservation earlier this April. The county...
View ArticleThrough Seniors Advisory Committee, Maplewood works to support its seniors
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood has much to offer its intergenerational population and is committed to continuing to build an age-friendly community, according to an April 21 press release from the town. To...
View ArticleGirl Scouts Heart of New Jersey joins tree-planting initiative
NORTH BRANCH, NJ — Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey, along with Girl Scouts across the country, are collaborating to plant five million trees by 2026 to help wildlife, improve the environment and...
View ArticleJournal of Future Economists to include paper written by MSMA team
WATCHUNG, NJ — Kathleen Brennan, chairperson of the Department of Mathematics at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, announced that the academy’s Fed Challenge team had a paper, “Leading Factors of...
View ArticleFather Colin Kay to lead university mission and ministry at Seton Hall U.
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — After serving for seven months in an interim role, Father Colin Kay has been appointed vice president for mission and ministry at Seton Hall University. “Father Colin’s energy,...
View ArticleOranges & Maplewood NAACP to present 108th annual Freedom Fund Gala
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who represents Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District and serves as the Democratic Caucus chairperson in the U.S. House of Representatives, will deliver the...
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