WESTFIELD — The Westfield Memorial Library, located at 550 East Broad Street, is featuring a calendar full of history, health and financial events during the first week of May.“First People: the New Jersey Connection,” with Walter Choroszewski, will take place on Monday, May 5, at 7 p.m. Mr. Chorosz...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Historical Society has announced that the next event in its First Wednesday Luncheon series will be held on May 7. Beginning with check-in at 11:45 a.m., it will take place at Echo Lake Country Club, located at 515 Springfield Avenue, Westfield.Back by popular demand, histo...

WESTFIELD — In celebration of National Preservation Month, the Westfield Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) will host an informal open-house program on Thursday, May 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It will take place in the Local History Room of the Westfield Memorial Library, located at 550 East Broa...

CLARK — Arthur L. Johnson High School (ALJ) has announced Class of 2025 Valedictorian Krista Steiner and Salutatorian Bradyn Weber.Krista has excelled in a challenging curriculum of honors and 15 Advanced Placement and dual-enrollment courses at the high school, among them Calculus 3, a class typica...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Lara Devieux of Mountainside was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at University of Southern California.Ms. Devieux is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty...

ONEONTA, N.Y. — Melanie Lowell of Fanwood and Laura Salway of Cranford were among 241 SUNY Oneonta students recognized for academic excellence during the 2024-2025 Susan Sutton Smith event on April 8. The Susan Sutton Smith awards are given each Spring to first-year students, sophomores and juniors ...

GARWOOD — The Garwood Public Library has announced that its Summer Reading Bookmark Contest will kick off on Thursday, May 1, ahead of the library’s Annual Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Color Our World,” — embracing the beauty of art in all its forms: drawing, painting, photography, ...

WESTFIELD — Westfield High School 12th grader Garrett Gao has advanced as a Finalist in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program, having met academic and other standards to become eligible for scholarships. The selection of 7,100 Merit Scholarship winners from the group of more than 15,000 Finali...

WESTFIELD — - REDCOM is proud to announce that Joe Orsita, Manager of Special Projects, has been selected to be on the Board of Directors for United Way of Greater Union County. Joe’s commitment to service and his passion for community development make him an ideal representative for this initiative...

SCOTCH PLAINS — Ninety-three years ago, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his home. J.D. Solomon, a Westfield resident and retired journalist, regards this as the most notorious crime to have occurred in New Jersey. This case resulted in the “Lindber...