SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Students, teachers and staff displayed smiles and pride as they officially celebrated the opening of eight new learning spaces in a wing of Evergreen Elementary School at a ribbon-cutting ceremony October 9.Amid increasing enrollment and district-wide space constraints, the d...

CLARK — Valley Road Elementary School held its Reading Kickoff Assembly on September 30. Students and staff dressed up as their favorite storybook characters as they learned about the reading program and its goals for this year, which include completing a monthly reading log.The program, sponsored b...

LEWISTON, Me. — Bates College graduated students from 36 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 19 countries on May 26, with 437 members of the Class of 2024 accepting congratulations and diplomas from President Garry W. Jenkins. It was the first Commencement for Mr. Jenkins, who took the helm a...

AREA – Pushcart Players, the award-winning educational theater for young and family audiences, has received a generous investment from The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) with a grant to subsidize performances in New Jersey schools. Part of Pushcart’s Diversity and Outreach Initiative, the p...

SPRINGFIELD – The Atlantic Federal Credit Union (“The Atlantic”) recently had the privilege of facilitating $50,000 in grant funding across ten local nonprofit organizations through the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Small Business Recovery Grant Program (“SBRG”).The SBRG was created to support ...

KENILWORTH — Visitors to Kenilworth’s Oswald J. Nitschke House during Union County’s Four Centuries in a Weekend historic sites tour will experience everyday life in a developing late 19th-/early 20thcentury suburb through interactive, multicultural “living history” and garden programs, exhibits and...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Memorial Library, located at 550 East Broad Street, continues to offer creative, educational and technical programs for diverse audiences.Between 1:30 and 3 p.m. today, Thursday, October 17, the library will continue to offer One-on-One Technical Help with librarian Victori...

WESTFIELD — On the evening of September 12, Burim Regjaj was presented the Union County Lifetime AchievementAward at a dinner hosted by the Patriots’ Path Council, Boy Scouts of America. Dr. D. Michael Hart introduced Mr. Regjaj, and highlighted one of the programs he started to support homeless vet...

AREA — The Abraham Clark Chapter No. 14 of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) held a re-dedication of the Abraham Clark Monument on September 14. The monument stands in front of the Abraham Clark Memorial House, located at 101 W 9th Avenue, Roselle.Abraham Clark High...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Area YMCA will hold a Clothing and Donation Drive on Wednesday, October 23. Anyone with clothing or other permitted items they wish to donate are invited to drop them off at the Robert and Virginia Bauer Family Branch YMCA, located at 422 East Broad Street, Westfield.The dr...