S. Mtn. YMCA hosts Healthy Kids Day
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Families are invited to the South Mountain YMCA on Saturday, April 21, for Healthy Kids Day, a free, fun-packed event to inspire children and their parents to engage their bodies and...
View ArticleMaplewood philanthropist receives Metro YMCA award for social responsibility
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — What longtime Maplewood resident Tom Kerns remembers keenly from the four months his wife underwent radical spinal surgery and rehabilitation in 2006 is the outpouring of support from...
View ArticleCounty to repave roads in several towns
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. announced details of the county’s Roadway Resurfacing Program for 2018 in an April 16 press release. The annual paving contract is part...
View ArticleNew SO guest pass allows free overnight parking
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Your exhausted overnight guest has just arrived and needs a place to park their car before they hit the sack. If they park on the street outside your house, they will likely have a...
View ArticleTony Award-winning composer to be honored at SOPAC
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — American Theater Group, the professional theater company in-residence at the South Orange Performing Arts Center, will honor Tony Award-winning Broadway and Hollywood composer...
View ArticleWrembel to present Django A Gogo in Maplewood
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Award-winning musician Stephane Wrembel’s presentation of Django A Gogo 2018, a week-long celebration of legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, includes three shows at The...
View ArticleMFD puts out brush fire behind municipal building
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood firefighters worked diligently in the afternoon of April 14 to extinguish a small, but smoky, brush fire in the wooded area behind the Maplewood Municipal Building. Photos...
View ArticleReservoir Restaurant named best pizza place in NJ
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Reservoir Restaurant in South Orange was recently named the winner in New Jersey Monthly’s 2018 Pizza poll and now can boast itself to be New Jersey’s favorite pizza. According to NJ...
View Article‘Same Family, Different Colors’
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School will present its Eva Samo Lecture on Wednesday, April 25, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Columbia High School’s Black Box Theatre, 17 Parker Ave. in...
View ArticleConversations on Race to discuss ‘Defining Integration in the 21st Century’
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — What’s the difference between diversity and integration, and what do those terms mean in SOMA, in the region and across the country given the changing demographics everywhere? These and...
View ArticleWO Lions Club supports EIES
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Lions Club of West Orange gives $500 to EIES, a South Orange-based nonprofit that records volunteers reading newspapers and other material for blind people to listen to; from left...
View ArticleSO looks to partner for energy
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Board of Trustees unanimously passed an ordinance on first reading authorizing the establishment of a government energy aggregation program at its March 26 meeting....
View ArticleLearn all about Renoir
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s philosophy can be summed up in this quote: “A picture must be an amiable thing, joyous and pretty — yes, pretty! There are enough troublesome things in life...
View ArticleFrom generation to generation at TSTI’s preschool
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Several young parents who grew up at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, the Reform synagogue in South Orange, have taken the Jewish trope “from generation to generation” to heart. Once...
View ArticleDoing business with Maplewood
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The township of Maplewood will and the Maplewood Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 24, at 8:30 a.m. at Maplewood Town Hall, 574 Valley St., about doing business...
View ArticleTwo Maplewood men arrested for graffiti
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Spencer Pontius, 22, of Maplewood and and Marcus Baker, 21, of Maplewood were arrested following a Maplewood Police Department Detective Bureau investigation and a police stop conducted...
View ArticleLet’s go fishing in Essex County
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The county’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs invites the public to participate in Essex County’s 2018 Fishing Derbies. The free events will be held in various...
View ArticleMMS, Senior Share partner for intergenerational program
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Senior citizens and a group of Maplewood Middle School students came together for a brainstorming session in the school’s library Monday, April 16, to discuss the benefits of middle...
View ArticleClosing reception for ‘Kwalite Paintings’
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Performing Arts Center’s Herb and Milly Iris Gallery will host a closing reception for the current exhibition, Joe Waks’ “Kwalite Paintings,” on Sunday, April 22,...
View Article‘Can Journalism Save Democracy?’
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Thursday, April 26, SOMA Action will host a discussion led by a panel of prominent journalists on the role of the press in the age of President Trump; the panel had originally...
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