Lizza & McTernan: Worthy Successors

SUMMIT, NJ - Rabbi Stuart Gershon of Temple Sinai in Summit and three of his rabbinic colleagues will speak about their respective Judaic denominations in a Tuesday Lunch & Learn Series entitled 'Comparative Judaism: Four Denominations'.

The series, which will begin on January 8, will explore the areas where people agree and the issues on which they disagree, helping all to better ...

MONTCLAIR, NJ - Sophomore Sarah Maldonado delivered a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double as the Summit High School Girls Varsity Basketball Team doubled its win total with a 52-24 victory at Montclair.

Sophomore Annabella Yorio led the Hilltoppers in scoring with 11 points as the Maroon and White won its second game to open the 2018-19 season. Freshman Olivia Lawlor had nine points and five ...

SUMMIT, NJ - The Providing Educational Possibilities (PEP) Program will host an information session designed for eligible and motivated sixth grade students who are interested in joining the program, on January 17, from 6 - 7p.m., at PEP headquarters in Summit. The 'snow date' is January 22, also from 6-7 p.m.

PEP is a college-access program that offers academic support, social-emotional ...

Those citizens among us, who might dismiss Trump’s two year stretch of hate as run-of-the-mill partisan politics, will carry the same stain of previous American generations who have fallen prey to right wing extremism. The president’s campaign, transition, inauguration, charities and how his personal business intersects in all of the above will soon be determined. All the while the thread of ...

PRINCETON, NJ - Outshooting their opponents by a whopping 42-8 margin, the Summit High School Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Team built an 10-0 lead over two-plus periods of play on their way to an eventual 12-1 win over Princeton at the Hobey Baker Memorial Ice Rink.

Freshman Leah Rubinshteyn (3), sophomore Caroline Sharpe (2) and senior Morgen Shung (2) combined for seven Summit goals between ...

SUMMIT, NJ - For major chunks of the Summit High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team's game versus Chatham, the Hilltoppers were like that bear cub in the recent viral video -- trying to climb a snowy bank, repeatedly almost making up to the 'Mama Bear' but losing its grip and sliding agonizingly back down the steep slope.

At times the video was tough to watch but, ultimately, the cub showed ...

Summit residents Martha White and Susan Haig recently performed a holiday concert for SAGE Eldercare Spend-A-Day participants and staff. With Haig on piano and White singing, everyone enjoyed a fun afternoon listening to holiday favorites.

SAGE’s Spend-A-Day Adult Day Health Center provides seniors with structured social, physical and cognitive activities, meals planned by a registered ...

SUMMIT, NJ - While the result of the 'public' part of the Summit Common Council’s December 12 public workshop meeting on the preliminary 2019 capital budget was big-time debatable -- there were but two persons in attendance who were not required to actually be there for the meeting -- the fact that the meeting to review a preliminary 2019 capital budget was highly informative and featured ...

SUMMIT, NJ - Summit Superintendent of Schools June Chang’s decision to add more post-lottery sections of Full-Day Kindergarten (FDK), and discussion on the lottery itself, along with more comments on the hate symbols and words that were found in two Summit school bathrooms, made up the lion's share of the discussion at the December Board of Education meeting.  

The meeting also had ...

SUMMIT, NJ - Fifty-six Fall '18 grants, totaling more than $257,000, were awarded to the Summit Public Schools by the Summit Education Foundation, an amount that marks -- according to the SEF -- its largest fall grant cycle ever.

Since its founding in 1986, the SEF has awarded grants exceeding $6.68 million.

Grants were awarded across all grade levels in the following ...