West Orange
By Eric Levin -
April 9, 2012
The Essex County Country Club, the oldest in the state, has enjoyed a storied 125-year history.
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I admit that I love the Jersey-based reality shows. So when the opportunity came to celebrate the 24th birthday of Tracy DiMarco of the Style Network’s Jerseylicious, my coworker and I were more than excited to go.
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Ten days after the storm, downed branches are still piled on curbs like fortress walls...
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By Tammy La Gorce -
October 10, 2011
The Garden State is fertile ground for a growing jazz scene.
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August 17, 2011
A list of 9/11 Memorials in West Orange, Pennsauken, South River, Middletown, Stirling, Allendale and Lyndhurst.
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See you Monday, April 11th. Meanwhile, here's a parting shot...
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By Tammy La Gorce -
January 17, 2011
Bettye LaVette might be the the greatest R&B singer you've never heard of. The West Orange resident talks about the ups and downs of the music world.
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By Kristin Conard -
November 15, 2010
Three AMC theaters in New Jersey will provide you with dinner while you watch a movie. The cinematic experience in the Garden State now includes food service.
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Last look at the twinned tints, this time with an orange intruder...
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Yet another take on the tale of two turquoises...
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A chromatic confluence at the Shop-Rite in West Orange...
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With the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, Essex County Country Club in West Orange has organized the Flight 93 National Memorial Golf Fundraiser to take place Aug 23 and 24th. It's not too late to participate.
Why a golf fundraiser in New Jersey for a national park and memorial being built in Shanksville, Pennsylvania? It actually makes a lot of sense. Read on...
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By Deborah P. Carter -
July 4, 2010
By Jessica Remo -
September 14, 2009
Edison’s West Orange lab re-opens its doors after a five-year renovation.
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By MaryLynn Schiavi -
September 9, 2009
Autumn is an ideal time for a walk—and a picnic—in one of the area’s lush parks.
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Plain Sight will take a breather as I head to Portland, Maine for a family wedding and a few days of R&R. Back Wednesday, Sept. 2. Meanwhile, a few vacationy images...
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By Tammy La Gorce -
June 8, 2009
The headquarters are not exactly world-class—they’re in a former Marty’s shoe store in West Orange—but the concept may be.
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I have a series of pictures I call "Souls Have Shapes." The title comes from the first stanza of a poem, "My Sisters," by Stanley Kunitz:
Who whispered, souls have shapes?/ So does the wind, I say./ But I don't know,/ I only feel things blow.
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Late afternoon sun does something even for entrances not ready for their closeup...
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Yesterday's late afternoon sun begged to be beheld and basked in, and on St. Patrick's Day what better place than by a bright green door?
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March 17, 2009
We traveled far and wide to pinpoint the following fun destinations from A (aquarium) to Z (zoo).
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March 17, 2009
Super shopping and better bargains await at these top NJ retails establishments.
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Talk about a windshield filler. Such is the view from the driver's seat as I sat behind a dump truck at a red light in West Orange.
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In 2005, my father, Mel Levin, who was suffering from Alzheimer's, fell while walking with my mother, Roz, in their West Orange neighborhood.
He was not seriously injured, but he spent the next several days in confusion and pain in a room in St. Barnabus Hospital in Livingston.
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"Paula" posted a question about whether I am still on speaking terms with my next-door neighbor, who backed into me with his SUV while I was mowing my lawn on Sunday, sending me to the hospital in an ambulance with my neck in a brace.
How this freak accident happened I attempted to describe in Tuesday and Wednesday's Plain Sight.
The answer to Paula's question is...
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The telephone poles were taller than the trees in the new West Orange neighborhood my family moved to in 1963.

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By Deborah P. Carter -
March 10, 2008
By Peter Golden -
February 8, 2008
By John Zawadzinski -
February 8, 2008
By Steve Giegerich and Kristin McKeon Nieto -
February 8, 2008
Good works and good service are the hallmarks of this year’s Family Business of the Year Award winners.
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By Valerie Sinclair -
February 7, 2008
By Terry Golway -
February 6, 2008
By Valerie Sinclair -
February 6, 2008
By Michael Callahan -
February 6, 2008
By Erik Ortiz -
February 6, 2008
By Evan Rothman -
February 5, 2008
By Rosie Saferstein -
February 5, 2008
By Christopher Hann, Yogi Berra, and Dave Kaplan -
February 1, 2008
By Brett Avery -
February 1, 2008
By Thomas F. Gillen -
January 30, 2008
By Eric Levin, Cara Birnabaum, Maureen Fitzgerald, Alexandra Hanson-Harding, Joel Keller, Tracy Leonard, Jennifer Melick, Jen A. Miller, Lauren Murphy, Nicole Pensiero, Valerie Sinclair, Allen St. John, and Jennifer Weiss -
December 21, 2007
By Max Gray -
December 21, 2007
By Michael Callahan, Jennifer Weiss, Bruce Springsteen, and Yogi Berra -
December 20, 2007
We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver.
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By Linda Longo -
December 20, 2007
West Orange answers the question: How many artists does it take to make a point about conserving energy?
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By Eric Levin -
December 19, 2007
Newsweek Columnist Jonathan Alter interprets history as it happens.At home,he steeps himself in the past ,including the edigree of his Victorian dream house.
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By Evan Rothman -
December 19, 2007
We took a dash of Pine Valley, sprinkled in some Baltusrol and Somerset Hills, and added a liberal helping of the state’s other storied layouts to create what could be the nation’s ultimate 18-hole course.
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By Joel Keller -
December 19, 2007