MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — Linsey Armus, 30, of Rahway, was thrilled when she caught the first fish of the day at Lower Echo Lake Park in Mountainside on Saturday, Sep. 8. The Union County Board of County Commissioners, in partnership with the Newark Bait Fly Casting Club invited residents of Union County to participate in the […]
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — Don’t miss the Mountainside Restoration Committee’s annual Fall Mum & Plant Sale on the lawn of the Deacon Andrew Hetfield House. This year’s sale takes place Thursday, Sept. 14, through Saturday, Sept. 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., while supplies last. The committee’s plant experts travel to the grower and hand-select […]
UNION — Premiere Stages, at Kean University, is currently staging “Selling Kabul,” a play about the tenacious strength of family and culture to survive a collapsing social order. It is a 100-minute play staged in real time without intermission having its New Jersey premier. The span of time witnessed by the audience is the same […]
CLARK, NJ — The Clark/Rahway Veterans of Foreign Wars John L. Ruddy Post 7363 in Clark closed in March 2020, due to the pandemic. Income for maintenance and repairs to the building was also needed. In early 2020, the post was initiating a plan to repair the roof, air conditioning system and ceilings. But with […]
UNION, NJ — The Galleries at Kean University features the top artistic talent in the medium of collage this fall with the National Collage Society: 39th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Liberty Hall Academic Center gallery through Saturday, Sept. 30. An opening reception, free and open to the public, was at LHAC on Kean’s Union […]
UNION, NJ — Premiere Stages, the professional theater company in residence at Kean University, began accepting submissions for the 19th annual Premiere Play Festival on Friday, Sept. 1. This yearly competition for unproduced scripts offers developmental and production opportunities to as many as four playwrights with strong ties to the greater metropolitan area — New […]
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — The Mountainside Restoration Committee’s MRC Estate Sales division will be conducting an outstanding estate sale in Mountainside to raise funds for the maintenance and restoration of the historic Deacon Andrew Hetfield House and Levi Cory House. The sale will be on Friday, Sept. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday, […]
SUMMIT — SAGE Eldercare has announced that its renowned workshop has restored Steven Rapkin’s precious Adu Zatua, a wooden ancestor sculpture carved by the Nias people of Indonesia to honor the spirits of loved ones who have passed for providing guidance. Every statue is different and serves a different purpose. Rapkin’s Adu Zatua, acquired on […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The Union County Board of County Commissioners invites residents to join the master tree stewards of Union County. Union County residents who are looking for a fun and rewarding civic service project can join the 4-H Master Tree Steward program and learn how to “speak for the trees.” “Through our master […]
UNION, NJ — ‘Selling Kabul’ comes to Premiere Stages’ Bauer Boucher Theatre Center, 1000 Morris, Ave., Union, from Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 24. Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. […]