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Summit Area YMCA Love and Legacy 5K Returns May 4, 2025

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on April 4, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL. Leave a Comment

A Community Race with Purpose The Summit Area YMCA Love and Legacy 5K is set to return on Sunday, May 4, 2025, bringing the community together for a morning of fitness, camaraderie, and support for meaningful programs. Hosted at the Summit YMCA (67 Maple St, Summit, NJ), this annual event offers participants the chance to run or walk for a cause that makes a lasting impact. More Than Just a Race The Love and Legacy 5K (formerly, the Mother’s Day 5K) is about strengthening the community. Proceeds from the event help fund critical YMCA programs, including financial assistance for childcare,...

Cranford Library Breaks Ground On Children’s Room Expansion Project

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on April 4, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

State Reps, Township & Board Partner to Make Project a Reality The Cranford Public Library has formally broken ground on the new Children’s Room. On March 3, 2025, Township Commissioner and Mayor’s Designee to the Library Board of Trustees Brian Andrews, along with Senate President Nicholas Scutari (LD-22), Assemblywoman Linda Carter (LD-22), Mayor Terrence Curran, Library Director Kathy Cannarozzi, Library Board of Trustees President Susan Burke and members of the Library Board of Trustees put golden shovels to the ground to kick off the expansion project for the Children’s Room. “This...

Daffodils DELIGHT at Reeves-Reed Arboretum’s Spring Festival and Daffodil Days

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on April 3, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

Spring’s most anticipated celebration is back! Reeves-Reed Arboretum invites visitors to experience the magic of its Daffodil Day Festival on Sunday, April 13, 2025, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, a beloved community tradition that showcases one of the largest daffodil collections in New Jersey. With over 50,000 daffodils in bloom, the Arboretum’s stunning Daffodil Bowl will transform into a golden sea of color, providing the perfect backdrop for a fun-filled day of spring festivities. Beyond the breathtaking floral display, attendees can enjoy spring-themed games and crafts, story and history trails,...

Take The Lead

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on March 3, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

MILLBURN, NJ – February 18, 2025 – Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Executive Director), recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award, is pleased to announce “Take a Ticket,” a new initiative introduced for the upcoming world premiere of Take the Lead. Up to 1,000 tickets will be offered free of charge directly to ten local high schools and their students within New Jersey’s Essex County, home to Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ), during the musical’s preview period (March 29th and April 2nd-6th at 7:30pm). The initiative,...

Overlook Medical Center marks completion of East Building, a 3-story, 78K-square foot expansion

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on February 4, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

Overlook Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, on January 16, marked the completion of the East Building, a 3-story expansion to the hospital campus that houses new and updated space for vital specialties. The East Building represents a major expansion to the hospital as part of the ongoing Overlook Ahead project, a plan to extensively transform and enhance the Overlook Medical Center campus. The expansion provides new, updated, state-of-the art spaces for maternity care, cardiology and critical care and neuroscience. “This building, and most importantly the care that will be provided...

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on February 4, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL. Leave a Comment

St. Patrick School 5th Graders are exploring the delicate balance between predators and prey in ecosystems through the Fox and Rabbit simulation. A hands-on way to bring science to life!

We Love Our Pets!

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on February 3, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, Local Pet, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

Local Media NJ Celebrates all the pets we featured in 2024! Would you like your pet featured in an upcoming issue, please send us an email at support@localmedianj.com.

Hoops Thriller Ends in Four Overtimes

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on February 3, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, Local Sports, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

Photography Provided by Varsity Vantage In a thrilling encounter on January 11, 2025, the Chatham High School girls’ basketball team edged out Westfield High School with a 61-55 victory in a marathon four-overtime game. This win marked Chatham’s 11th consecutive victory, maintaining their unbeaten streak for the season. The game was a testament to endurance and skill, with both teams displaying remarkable tenacity. Chatham’s forward, Grace Kreuzer, delivered an outstanding performance, leading all scorers with 27 points. Guard Grace Cloud also made pivotal contributions,...

VACNJ Opens Winter/Spring Exhibitions in February

Written by Local Media NJ Staff on February 2, 2025. Posted in Cover Feature, SUMMIT+CHATHAM LOCAL, WESTFIELD LOCAL. Leave a Comment

Opening on February 7 and running through May 18, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will host a series of exhibitions focusing on the theme of place(less(ness)) that will feature various forms of media, including technology, textiles, and printmaking. Each exhibition explores ideas around the spaces we occupy and how we interact with them. In the Main Gallery, artists Mollye Bendell, Christopher Kojzar, and JLS Gangwisch, members of the Baltimore-based collective strikeWare, will use media and technology to examine transit-related occurrences in the traveling exhibition ETA: Rerouted. The...