The Glen Ridge Paper

11/14/2024

The Gas Lamp Junior Mainstage Players will present “Singin’ in the Rain” on Friday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov 17, at 1 p.m. The stage musical is ba…

11/10/2024

The Glen Ridge Environmental Committee staged its third annual Pumpkin Smash on Saturday morning, Nov. 2. The event, held at the Benson Street Garden, gave parents and kids goggles, mallets and the…

11/09/2024

Glen Ridge hosted its inaugural Diwali Diya lighting celebration on Sunday, Oct. 27, at the steps of Borough Hall. The event transformed Borough Hall into a vibrant festival of lights, celebrating …

10/31/2024

There was a pumpkin hunt at Carteret Park this past Saturday morning. It was a quick affair with about 50 parents and their kids waiting at the playground for Jim Cowan, the Recreation Department d…

10/28/2024

10/26/2024

The Kiwanis Club of Glen Ridge held its ninth annual fall food tasting fundraiser Monday night, Oct. 21, at the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge, and it was a passing of the guard. The event is the servi…

10/19/2024

Preparations for winter were undertaken at the Benson Street Garden, on Saturday morning, Oct. 12, with volunteers from different corners of the borough coming together to pull stubborn tendrils an…

10/12/2024

There were always two sides to his life, George Musser said at a Broad Street coffee counter last week. A trained scientist, Musser, 59, is also a writer and the author of “Putting Ourselves Back i…

10/05/2024

Ryan Bridge has been selected as the new music director at Christ Episcopal Church. A graduate of Belleville High School, class of ‘10, Bridge attended the Manhattan School of Music for classical p…

09/21/2024

The recreation department is exhibiting, at the Ridgewood Avenue train station until the end of October, works by four Glen Ridge artists. The show is co-curated by Stephanie Kosbuka and Megan Giul…

09/14/2024

There are no coincidences in deep space. So while Sunday, Sept. 8, was National Star Trek Day, the date in 1966 when the world was introduced to Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the Starship Enterprise, t…

09/12/2024

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School football program is buzzing after last year’s incredible run. As the No. 7 seed, the Ridgers upset No. 2 seed Waldwick–Midland Park, 33-26, in the first …

09/08/2024

Why must summer end? Well, it must and at the Glen Ridge Community Pool on Labor Day weekend, particularly Monday, Sept. 2, folks were reconciled to a final splash. When asked if they had thoughts …

09/02/2024

Mosaic Dance Theater Co., the Glen Ridge troupe dedicated to the dance movements and folklore of the Mediterranean region — the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe, will be performing at …

08/25/2024

Every new school year has its curriculum initiatives and with September knocking, first-year school superintendent Kyle Arlington gave this newspaper a heads-up on what parents can anticipate. Arli…

08/18/2024

School district rooms and hallways continue to be busy places this summer as the custodial staff of Robert Gomes, the schools’ supervisor of buildings and grounds, prepares for September and the ar…

08/12/2024

Glen Ridge High School has been playing host to a contingent of seventh- and eighth-grade Chinese students visiting the United States as part of a cultural program. The activity is sponsored by the…

08/03/2024

Borough residents sure like to party as evidenced at last week’s “Pop-Up Party in the Glen,” a totally appreciated community activity along Toney Brook. The get-together drew a fairly sizable famil…