UNION COUNTY, NJ — For some writers, they have only to take a look at their life to find all the material they need for a book. For Robert D’Ambola, it was enough for several books. D’Ambola, who grew up in Hillside and has lived for much of his life in Cranford, has a unique […]
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 […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — On Tuesday, Aug. 15, the Rev. Thomas F. Canty Council 3197 hosted a blood drive at its Council Hall on Liberty Avenue in Hillside. The drive, co-sponsored by the Hillside Township Health Department, was conducted in collaboration with Vitalant Blood Services. Seventeen registrants participated and their donations contributed toward alleviating the critical […]
NEWARK, NJ — William Register of Hillside, a senior at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2027. Register was nominated to the U.S.N.A. by U.S. Representative Donald M. Payne Jr., the congressman representing New Jersey’s 10th District. Register is the senior group leader of the Boys […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — For the first time, football players from Union County will be putting on shoulder pads and lacing up their cleats to compete in the 29th annual Paul Robeson All-Star Football Classic, which takes place every June at Paul Robeson Stadium in East Orange, where the East Orange Campus High School Jaguars […]
Problems at the printing plant where our newspapers are printed have caused a delay in their distribution. Subscribers to the News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, The Glen Ridge Paper, West Orange Chronicle, Irvington Herald, The Independent Press of Bloomfield, Record-Transcript and Union County LocalSource should receive their newspapers in Friday’s mail. We apologize for […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — On Dec. 26 at approximately 10 a.m., a Bloomfield police officer responded to Stop & Shop on Franklin Street on report of a motor vehicle theft. Upon arrival, the officer was flagged down by a witness who observed a male suspect break the glass window on the rear passenger door of a […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — Two new shows have been added to Kean Stage’s spring 2023 season at Kean University’s Enlow Recital Hall in Hillside. Cherish the Ladies, the long-running, Grammy-nominated, Irish-American supergroup, will perform on Friday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. Formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in […]
NEWARK, NJ — Lions Vision Productions Studios, a black-owned production company located in Hillside, held a private screening on Dec. 8 at CityPlex 12 Newark of its first feature film, “The Lions Vision Productions Addiction Trilogy: Conflicted. Addicted. Convicted.” The film was written, directed and produced by LaTia McNeely-Sandiford, author of the memoir, “Burdens in […]
HILLSIDE, NJ — On Monday, Oct. 10, Grand Knight Patrick J. Mahon and Columbus Memorial Chairperson Andrew Wnukowski of the Rev. Thomas F. Canty Council No. 3197 of the Knights of Columbus led a contingent to commemorate Columbus Day, restoring a tradition that had been placed on hold for two years due to the pandemic. […]