UNION COUNTY, NJ — Summer workouts are complete. The beginning of practice in August has come and gone. Games in August and September are now history. We’re down to just three weekends remaining in the regular season. October football to decide which teams make the playoffs and which squads don’t. In Union County there are […]
RAHWAY, NJ — Rahway’s past has a rich history of admirable women. Eleven of them were featured in the 29th annual “Spirits of the Past” tour of the Rahway Cemetery on Sunday, Oct. 1. With the theme “Women in Rahway History,” women who played a part in the city’s history were reenacted as ghosts, telling […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Camila Taddeo and Maryann Ossai are two Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society scholars from Union College of Union County who were selected as 2023 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars and will each receive a $1,000 scholarship. Taddeo, of Union Township, is the president of Union’s PTK chapter and is studying nursing. She […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The Summit Department of Community Services is providing a schedule for milling and paving operations to be performed by PSE&G in Summit in October 2023, weather permitting. Thursday, Oct. 5: milling • Bellevue Avenue, between Woodland Avenue and 50 Bellevue Ave. • Beverly Road, between Woodland Avenue and 50 Beverly Road • […]
UNION, NJ — Recent Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen Alex Newell opens Kean Stage’s 2023-2024 season at Enlow Recital Hall in Hillside on Friday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Newell will perform an eclectic mix of Broadway, American, pop and R&B standards at this inspiring concert event. Newell brings the party, excitement and […]
UNION, NJ — “HouseBroken,” an exhibition by New York-based interdisciplinary artist Melissa Stern that explores the range of emotions and experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown, is on display at the Galleries at Kean University through Friday, Dec. 8. An opening reception — free and open to the public — was in the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, […]
SUMMIT, NJ — As has been a longstanding tradition, Mayor Nora Radest issued a proclamation designating September as “Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad Month” in the city. The proclamation comes as the squad launches its annual fund drive. Since it was formed in 1962, the First Aid Squad has been staffed entirely by volunteers and […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The Fountain Baptist Church in Summit celebrated 125 years of ministry and service by presenting a nearly two-hour concert on Saturday, Sept. 23. The uplifting celebration filled all the seats and the spirits of attendees. According to 13-year church member and member of the male chorus Kenneth Miles, this was the first […]
LINDEN, NJ — Helen Carr was a jazz singer who was active during the 1940s and 1950s. She recorded with famous jazz musicians such as Charlie Barnet, Stan Kenton, Buddy Morrow and Charles Mingus, to name just a few. Carr recorded two albums for the Bethlehem Records label in the 1950s, “Down in the Depths […]
SUMMIT, NJ — The city of Summit has announced that Ellen Dickson, former mayor and Common Council president, died on Sunday, Sept. 24. She was 71 years old. Dickson’s commitment to Summit was deep and firmly rooted. She, along with her husband, Chip, made Summit their home for over two decades, watching their three children […]