The Glen Ridge Paper

12/06/2024

  The 25th annual Ashenfelter 8K race was run Thanksgiving Day. Rain kept spectator attendance down but not so much participation. According to race director Dan Murphy, 2,997 runners signed u…

12/01/2024

An open house was held earlier this month to share plans for the first portion of the Greenway project that will transform a nine-mile stretch of former rail line in Essex and Hudson counties into …

11/21/2024

  Por el Departamento de Transporte de Nueva Jersey En 2023, se produjeron más de 600 accidentes mortales en las carreteras de Nueva Jersey. Estamos tan acostumbrados a ver estadísticas que es…

11/21/2024

  By The New Jersey Department of Transportation There were more than 600 crash-related fatalities on New Jersey roadways in 2023. We’re so used to seeing statistics that it can be easy to for…

11/20/2024

Kristy Graves, stalwart director of the Gas Lamp Players, will perform in the community theater’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” A veteran actress, Graves began her profession…

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 …