By TAPINTO ELIZABETH STAFF
September 19, 2018ELIZABETH, NJ - The Rotary Club of Elizabeth will be celebrating 101 years of service to the Greater Elizabeth Community, by featuring its unique annual food-tasting event, the “Taste of Elizabeth” on Monday, October 15, from 5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Hotel located at 1000 Spring Street in Elizabeth.
A record number of new restaurants and food vendors have joined this ...
ELIZABETH/CRANFORD, NJ - The 1st Annual Charlie’s Angel Prostate Cancer Walk honoring the memory of Charlie Robert Bathelus, will be held at Nomahegan Park in Cranford on Saturday, September 29, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The new non-profit foundation and its work, are in honor of the late Charlie Robert Bathelus, father of Elizabeth Board of Education member Charlene Bathelus. Mr. Bathelus ...
ELIZABETH, NJ - The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders has announced a free yoga and women’s wellness event to be held in celebration of the 2018 International Day of Peace on Friday evening, September 21, at the Warinanco Sports Center in Union County’s Warinanco Park.
As a suggested donation, participants are invited to bring a box or bag of feminine hygiene ...
ELIZABETH, NJ - The African American Day Parade Committee will be hosting the annual African American Day Parade on Sunday, September 16, at 2 p.m. The committee is inviting residents of the City of Elizabeth and surrounding cities to join in the celebration.
The parade will begin at Union Square (Elizabeth Avenue and New Point Road) and will conclude in front of City Hall.
The ...
By TAPINTO ELIZABETH STAFF
September 14, 2018UNION COUNTY NJ - The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders has announced the first graduating class of the new Non-Profit Consortium Leadership Fellows Institute. The 44 graduates were recruited from local non-profit organizations in partnership with the Union County Non-Profit Consortium, with the goal of developing the next generation of informed, effective executives in the non-profit ...
By TOM HAYDON
September 19, 2018NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Rutgers University President Robert Barchi has agreed to continue in that position for two more years, university officials said.
Members of the university board of governors asked him to remain at least two more years, and he agreed, officials said.
“Bob Barchi has been a remarkable leader for Rutgers,” board president Sandy Stewart said. He said ...
By KASON LITTLE
September 10, 2018“Dear Elizabeth Parents and Our Rising Students,
Welcome to the beginning of the 2018-2019 School Year. I hope you’ve all have had an enjoyable summer. It is this time of year that I become energized for all of our students and staff as we advocate and ensure that all students are ensured by a well rounded, safe, positive, and most importantly an excitingly fun, enhancing learning ...
By LIZ KEILL
‘Age of Innocence’ captures Wharton’s 1870’s New York
By LIZ KEILL
PRINCETON, NJ – Leave it to author Edith Wharton to decode the lives of staid, wealthy New Yorkers as she does so hauntingly in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Age of Innocence.”
Douglas McGrath adapted the novel for a stirring, 95-minute production at the McCarter Theatre ...
By LIZ KEILL
‘Brick City’ takes journey through high school angst
By LIZ KEILL
UNION, NJ – Premiere Stages at Kean University presents a new play by Nicole Pandolfo. “Brick City” is an exploration of two seniors in high school and their search for meaningful lives, while their teacher/mentor, Veronica, is also turning her life around.
There are a number of loose ends in ...
By TAPINTO ELIZABETH STAFF
September 19, 2018Elizabeth, NJ – With partisan turmoil in Washington splitting the nation ideologically, the fifth annual Union County Day of Prayer promises to deliver a message of unity, embracement of diversity and community goodwill on Oct. 9 at St. Bartholomew the Apostle Church in Scotch Plains.
From 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., "Union County Day of Prayer: Striving to Make a Beloved ...
