Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
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The Summit Free Public Library is recruiting teens entering grades 8–12 for its 2026 Banned Books Readers program, offering five community service hours for researching and reading a banned-book excerpt aloud on Oct. 6; registration closes Sept. 15.
Community
New Providence's sole Union County Notable Tree, a white oak at 64 Passaic St. designated in 1978, is being removed the week of Aug. 8 after inspectors found dangerous interior rot, and local historians plan to study its rings to determine its age.
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Summit's Reeves-Reed Arboretum offers a packed August calendar including Goat Yoga, Forest Bathing, a botanical workshop, free Saturday garden tours and a Sounds of a Summer Night concert featuring New Jersey band Sound Bite on Aug. 26.
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Union County's second annual Plein Air Painting Festival returns to the Deserted Village of Feltville in Berkeley Heights on Sept. 27, offering a free outdoor painting event at the historic 19th-century site inside the Watchung Reservation.
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A new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll conducted from its Madison campus finds most New Jersey voters in predominantly white towns don't recognize school segregation in their own districts, and that asking about racism first can shift support for integration policies like transfers and magnet schools.
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Lerato Pitso and Fellipe Dos Anjos Pereira, both PhD students at Drew University's Theological School in Madison, have each won a Louisville Doctoral Fellowship, a competitive two-year national award from the Louisville Institute that supports future theological educators.
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The Summit Family Aquatic Center will offer half-price memberships from Saturday, Aug. 1 through Labor Day, Mayor Elizabeth Fagan announced during her weekly video segment.
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The Summit Foundation awarded a $19,000 grant to Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, to expand free bi-weekly peer grief support groups for Summit-area children, young adults, and caregivers, with services offered in English and Spanish.
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Madison's Rosedale Avenue Soccer Field has new sod installed but remains closed to the public while the grass takes root, with no reopening date announced ahead of the fall soccer season.
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Thirteen Summit-area students flew to Florida for the YMCA Achievers Program's first-ever airplane college tour, visiting four colleges and universities and connecting with Summit High School alumna Jourdan Banks ahead of August registration for the 2026–2027 cohort.
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Mayor Elizabeth Fagan presented a proclamation to Rev. Dr. Denison D. Harrield Jr. at the July 29 Common Council meeting, honoring his 50 years of ministry and nearly 37 years leading Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Summit.
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Chatham Borough Police will host National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Memorial Park, offering residents a chance to meet officers and enjoy games, food, and music at the free annual event.
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The Madison Rotary Club and American Red Cross will hold a community blood drive on Tuesday, August 18, at the Madison Area YMCA, as the region rebuilds reserves depleted by summer weather disruptions.
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Summit cuts the ribbon on its $1.59 million Mabie Playground on Wednesday, July 29, with former Rutgers football star and disability advocate Eric LeGrand as the ceremony's featured guest, capping four years of community planning and grant-funded construction.
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Roger E. Behre, a volunteer firefighter with the New Providence Fire Department from 1959 to 1992 and a decorated Air Force veteran, died July 22 at 94.
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