WATCHUNG, NJ — Ruth Anne Munroe, director of Campus Ministry and Student Council moderator at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, reported that the Mercy Girl Effect Award has been presented to the academy’s 2021-2022 Student Council executive board. “Each year, the five-member board is challenged with a Mercy Girl Effect project that raises awareness […]
UNION, NJ — A faculty member in the Kean College of Education is laying the groundwork for children to learn chemistry by introducing the subject at a young age — in second and third grade. Kean assistant professor Dina Rosen developed an innovative curriculum called Early Chemistry, or eChem, that taps into children’s natural curiosity […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Union resident Matthew Leonelli has been elevated to the position of assistant vice president at Sheldon Gross Realty. In his new role, Leonelli works primarily with property owners to manage office and industrial property sales and leases throughout New Jersey, with an emphasis on Middlesex, Monmouth and Union counties. Leonelli joined […]
SOMERSET, NJ — Students in the Linden High School Entrepreneurial Management Achievement Program visited the Stage House restaurant in Somerset to learn about the restaurant business. Executive manager and executive chef Donald Erickson hosted the EMAP students on Tuesday, April 26, teaching them about property management, food preparation, customer service, menu item placement, physical environment, […]
ROSELLE, NJ — Soup Kitchen 411’s meal service on Friday, April 29, brought together its most prolific restaurant partner, Bayway Catering, and one of its most frequent food distribution partners, New Destiny Community Development Corp. “This partnership with Soup Kitchen 411 has allowed us to meet the needs of so many people who are experiencing […]
SPRINGFIELD, NJ — Angela Harrington, a higher education leader who spearheaded a Women’s Entrepreneurship Week initiative at Berkeley College, was recognized among the magazine City & State New York’s Above & Beyond honorees at a ceremony on Thursday, March 24, at Sony Hall in New York City. The award honors women who exhibit exemplary leadership […]
KENILWORTH, NJ — The Gallery-on-the-Boulevard presents “Floral Portraits,” an exhibit by photographer Sara Parmigiani on display at the Kenilworth Public Library, 548 Boulevard in Kenilworth, through July. Parmigiani has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s degree in museum studies. She is currently curator at the Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica and […]
UNION, NJ — A panel of leading experts in corrections and law called for new approaches to criminal justice reform in New Jersey during a panel hosted by Kean University. The lecture, hosted by the College of Business and Public Management, featured former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, former state Attorney General John J. Farmer […]
WESTFIELD, NJ — The Creative Hands of Second Westfield Senior Citizens Housing is a group of residents who knit and crochet for any need in the surrounding community. They’ve recently donated lap blankets and shawls to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway. Donna Mancuso, who is the director of Marketing and Community Education […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — As part of its commitment to making the state more resilient to the impacts of climate change, on April 19, during Earth Week, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection launched an online tool that will help planners, local governments, developers and residents better understand that extreme precipitation events are increasing, […]