AREA— Congressman Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07) recently announced the launch of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition. All high school students (grades 9-12) in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District are invited to participate. The deadline for submissions will be 5 p.m. on Friday, April 5.“I am exci...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce a new series of acrylic painting workshops for adults will take place this spring on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until noon at the Trailside Nature and Science Center, located at 452 New Providence Road in Mountainside.“We are...

FANWOOD — The Fanwood Performance Series presents an evening of jazz with the Ted Brancato Trio andAlejandroAtaucusi onApril 13 at the newly refurbished Kuran Cultural Arts Center (a.k.a. the Carriage House), next to Fanwood Borough Hall.Brancato is a pianist with four decades of experience composin...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce that registration has opened for the 2024 Union County Senior Art Exhibit, to be held from April 19 to May 30. Coordinated by the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, the Senior Art Exhibit will be held a...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School Repertory Theatre is gearing up to present this year’s musical production of The Addams Family. Based on the original characters created by Charles Addams, a native of Westfield, The Addams Family follows the Addamses, a macabre clan who deli...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce a new series of acrylic painting workshops for adults will take place this spring on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until noon at the Trailside Nature and Science Center, located at 452 New Providence Road in Mountainside.“We are...

WESTFIELD — “Brooklyn ’76: A Novel” by local author, Anthony Ausiello, was released on February 20. Mr. Ausiello describes his debut novel as a funny, dark, and unsentimental family drama and coming- of-age story set against a working- class neighborhood on the brink of transformation.The Agnello fa...

SUMMIT — Vivid Stage, in residence at Oakes Center at 120 Morris Avenue in Summit, is offering a new season of improvisation classes for adults this spring. The next session, which includes three different classes, begins on March 5.Students will think on their feet by freeing their mind, body and i...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is excited to announce the annual Wildlife Photography Contest has returned to the Trailside Nature and Science Center, located at 452 New Providence Road in Mountainside. Amateur photographers ages 13 and up are invited to enter their original...

ELIZABETH — A group of Union County performers marked seven years of musical partnership and disability inclusion in a recent performance at Kean University’s Wilkins Theater in Union.The Music for All Concert, a collaboration betweenCommunityAccess Unlimited (CAU) and Kean University, attracted an ...