Arts & Entertainment

NORTH CALDWELL, NJ — The West Essex Regional School District has been honored with the designation for Best Communities for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM). 

This designation “recognizes and celebrates school districts for their support and commitment to music education and for their efforts to ensure access to music, for all students, as ...

WEST CALDWELL, NJ — During the council meeting held this past week, Councilman Michael Docteroff reported that pool membership registrations in West Caldwell have increased 20% from this time in 2019.  There will be adherence to required safety protocols involving COVID-19, however plans do include offering swim lessons, water aerobics and swim teams will be available this ...

CALDWELL, NJ — Mayor John Kelley announced during the May 4 council meeting that after discussions with the Kiwanis Club of Caldwell-West Essex, Rotary Club of the Caldwells and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), the Street Fair will take place on Oct. 3. 

Kelley said that the annual event will occur contingent upon no major changes in the COVID ...

FAIRFIELD, NJ — Council President William Galese made an official announcement that the Fairfield Township pool will not reopen this year, and repairs to the pool are being looked into.

Fairfield Mayor James Gasparini, at Monday’s Township Council meeting, explained that the pool has to be “self-funding.” Any work that the township does for the pool, such as lawn ...

CALDWELL, NJ — Melissa Brady Petrillo was inspired to become a special needs teacher after working as a camp counselor at Camp Hope, a camp for children with disabilities—those who are differently abled—run by The Arc of New Jersey.

A Caldwell resident, Petrillo had noticed during an undergraduate children’s literature class at Caldwell College that ...

MILLBURN, NJ — A fully staged, reimagined, digitally captured production of Pete 'N' Keely continues Paper Mill Playhouse's 2020-2021 season. Pete ’n’ Keely is a musical comedy about a divorced singing duo who reunite for a television special in 1968, packed with jazzy standards, torch songs, comedic showpieces, and tender sentiment.

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CALDWELL, NJ — Three students from Grover Cleveland Middle School were named as winners during the Count Basie Film Festival Wednesday night.

Charlie Cosgrove's film entitled "The Aliens of Titan Episode One" received the award for the Middle School Best Animation.  

Portia Cina and Melia Hillman won for their film entitled "Beneath the Skin," which was ...

CALDWELL, NJ — Three students from Grover Cleveland Middle School have been chosen as official entrants into the 2021 Count Basie Center Teen & College Film Fest.

Eighth-grader Charlie Cosgrove entered a film entitled "The Aliens of Titan Episode One." He created a stop-motion film on the start of an alien invasion.

Eighth-graders Portia Cina Melia Hillman entered a ...

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The upcoming summer will be the second one on which the COVID-19 pandemic has an effect on nearly all aspects of our daily lives.   

Pods, social distancing, masks, remote learning, hybrid schedules, cohorts, hand sanitizers, quarantining, capacity limits and Zoom are all words that have come to define children’s daily ...