Whippany News

Proposals to borrow nearly $4.2 million - including $475,000 to create a park on Ridgeway Avenue and to pay out $2 million in successful property tax appeals --head the agenda of the May 21, 2013, town council meeting.

WHIPPANY - Sonia Symchowicz, 85, sat back in her chair and smiled. A few tables over, Norman Bikales, 84, hunched over, his elbows on his knees, listening.

A traditional Passover Seder plate. Inspired by the Passover service, a Holocaust Seder in Whippany today will honor survivors and victims of genocides.

Debbie Dobson and her sister, Pam Messina, will graduate from their master's degree program at Fairleigh Dickinson University Tuesday, but they don't plan do it alone.

Ridge High Ridge High School students from Bernards Township showed off their best style as they rolled into the Birchwood Manor in Whippany for their 2013 senior prom.

Well past the Passover season, the Holocaust Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ is planning a seder on Sunday, May 19, at the Aidekman campus in Whippany.

As they neared the finish line of their documentary on the iconic Rabbi Joachim Prinz, filmmakers Rachel Pasternak and Rachel Fisher had one big editorial gap to fill.

The 14th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show & Sale, sponsored by Audrey and Norbert Gaelen of West Orange, will open on Sunday, May 19, and run through Sunday, June 23, at the Gaelen Gallery West of the Lautenberg Family Center, Aidekman Campus, 901 Route 10 East, Whippany.

Eighteen plagues will replace the usual ten. Water will be spilled because wine wasn't available during the war.

The renowned Hanover Wind Symphony will represent the state of New Jersey at the 25th annual Boston Festival of Bands, Saturday, June 8, at historic Faneuil Hall in Boston.

From the 1930s through the late 1950s, you could buy a comic book for a mere dime.

Two former sales representatives of a Parsippany clinical laboratory, including one from Wall, have admitted to conspiring with others to bribe doctors to refer patient blood samples to their lab, authorities said.

Author Marci Shimoff offered the keynote address at the 2013 Women's Awareness Day, inspiring supporters of the Greater MetroWest UJA Annual Campaign to think positive thoughts as they supported Jewish causes at home, in Israel, and around the world.

The Mental Health Association of Morris County will recognize eight area churches at their 11th Annual Food for Thought Benefit on Monday, May 6. These churches and their congregations will be honored for their outstanding contributions and support of MHAMC's mission in the community by providing funds, facilities and a variety of services.

Two Madison firefighters and a Madison police officer credited with saving a Madison resident from a burning home in November were honored last week at a dinner recognizing heroic actions by first responders in Morris County.

"A spouse's generosity to others-whether it consists of acts of kindness or expenditures on gifts-necessarily implicates the time and resources the spouse has to devote to the marital partnership.

Students, donors, and staff celebrated Greater MetroWest's partnership with the Write On For Israel teen advocacy program at the Aidekman Jewish campus in Whippany April 10.

Jewish chaplains and clergy from other minority faiths have returned to prisons in Canada - at least temporarily - after a six-month struggle backed by the New Jersey-based National Association of Jewish Chaplains.

Students of the Calderone School of Music performed at the 2013 Annual Mid Atlantic Music Teachers Guild Festival and Competition, which took place at the Hanover Marriot Hotel in Whippany on March 29, 30 and 31.

WHIPPANY - "Winds of the Revolution," a free concert by the Hanover Wind Symphony, will take place April 24 at 7 p.m. at Memorial Junior School.