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New Jersey Hills Media Group $695 OurOur TownTown Informational Directory 2018-20192020-2021 Essex Fells Fairfield Roseland The Caldwells The Progress PAGE 2 Our Town theprogressnj.com KIWANIS CLUB COLLECTS FOOD FOR CALDWELL PANTRY Members of the Kiwanis Club of Caldwell-West Essex collect- ed food Saturday, Sept. 19 at Jack’s Foodtown in Caldwell. The donations filled 10 shop- ping carts. The club has held collections four times a year for the past decade to benefit the Caldwell Food Pantry. This year, the first two collections were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. WHAT’S INSIDE Caldwell ................................... 6-7 Our Town Community Groups .............. 26-30 Education .............................. 22-24 is published annually as a supplement to its newspapers by New Jersey Hills Media Group, Essex County ............................... 5 Suite 104, 100 S. Jefferson Road, Whippany, N.J. 07981. Essex Fells ................................ 8-9 Fairfield Township ............... 10-11 PUBLISHERS Golf Courses .............................. 25 Elizabeth K. Parker and Stephen W. Parker Healthcare ........................... 35-37 Movie Theaters .......................... 25 OUR TOWN COORDINATOR Libraries .................................... 20 Jacob Yaniak, [email protected] New Jersey Hills Media Group .... 4 North Caldwell ..................... 12-13 Executive Editor Elizabeth K. Parker Vice President of Sales and Marketing Parks & Recreation .................... 18 Business Manager Stephen W. Parker Jerry O’Donnell General Offices Manager Diane Howard Advertising Designers Places Of Worship ................ 31-34 Assistant Executive Editor Philip Nardone Toni Codd and Sally Harris Public Safety ............................. 19 Public Schools ....................... 20-21 Roseland .............................. 14-15 West Caldwell Township ...... 16-17 New Jersey Hills Media Group theprogressnj.com Our Town PAGE 3 ABOUT THIS GUIDE Latest figures show the Essex-Hunterdon-Morris-Som- the longtime resident. In it you will find brief histories of our erset area served by The New Jersey Hills Media Group communities, listings of service clubs and organizations, with more than 220,000 residential households, including health care facilities, schools, places of worship, libraries single- and multiple-family dwellings. and the key people to contact for any of those organizations. The area is a diversified one inhabited by high-level cor- You will also find listings of the key players in munic- porate executives, middle management, and trade and ser- ipal government. Not sure of the name of the president vice employees in all fields. Schools are ranked with some of the local Board of Education? You can find it in this of the best in the state and cultural offerings are plentiful. book. Want to contact the chairman of the Planning Residents can enjoy music, art, theater and other en- Board? You can find it here. deavors as spectators or participants. Recreation opportu- The map at the top of this page shows the entire area nities abound with many playing fields, bikeways and oth- covered by the New Jersey Hills Media group, the name er sites for the active. Scenic parks beautify the area for the of each newspaper and the area it covers. passive. Community service clubs and other organizations You can browse through Our Town, download the pdf are plentiful, forming the lifeblood of our communities. file, and print out key pages. Our Town is a guide for both the newcomer to the area and Refer to it often. New Jersey Hills Media Group PAGE 4 Our Town theprogressnj.com NEW JERSEY HILLS MEDIA GROUP Office Address New Jersey Hills Media Group Suite 104, 100 S Jefferson Road, Whippany 07981 Web site: newjerseyhills.com Phone: (908) 766-3900 STEPHEN ELIZABETH Fax: (908) 766-6365 W. PARKER K. PARKER Publisher Publisher Our Staff New Jersey Hills Media Group Business Manager: is a family-owned print and online Stephen W. Parker media company that publishes 15 [email protected] weekly newspapers and web sites covering 57 municipalities in Som- Executive Editor: erset, Morris, Hunterdon and Essex Elizabeth K. Parker counties. The newspapers and the [email protected] municipalities each covers are: Asst. Executive Editor: Philip J. Nardone Essex County [email protected] (908) 766-3900 ext. 220 Morris County Mount Olive Chronicle The Progress V.P. of Sales and Marketing: Mount Olive Twp., which includes Caldwell, Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Jerry O’Donnell Caldwell, Roseland and West Caldwell. Chatham Courier Budd Lake and Flanders. Chatham Borough, Chatham Twp. [email protected] Randolph Reporter (908) 766-3900 ext. 230 Hunterdon County The Citizen Randolph Twp. and Mine Hill Twp. Denville Twp., Dover, Rockaway Classified Advertising: Thea Giardina Hunterdon Review Borough, Rockaway Twp., Boonton, Roxbury Register [email protected] Califon, Clinton, Clinton Twp., High Boonton Twp., Montville and Moun- Mount Arlington Borough and Rox- (908) 766-3900 ext. 243 Bridge, Lebanon Borough, Lebanon Twp., tain Lakes. bury Twp. To place an ad call (800) 624-3684 Readington Twp., and Tewksbury Twp. Echoes~Sentinel Circulation: Today in Hunterdon Long Hill Twp. (in Morris County), Entertainment Cassie Fillebrown Clinton, Clinton Twp., Flemington, Warren Twp. and Watchung (in Som- Out & About [email protected] Franklin Twp., Lebanon Borough, Rar- erset County). The company’s entertainment section (908) 766-3900, ext. 242 itan Twp., Readington Twp. Florham Park Eagle appears online and as a separate Florham Park. section that is included monthly in Advertising Representative: the company’s newspapers. Special Brianna Marmol Somerset County Hanover Eagle sections on a variety of topics also [email protected] East Hanover Twp., Hanover Twp. The Bernardsville News are included. (908) 766-3900 ext. 235 Bedminster Twp., Bernards Madison Eagle The Progress Editor: Twp., Bernardsville, Far Hills and Madison. Kathy Shwiff Peapack-Gladstone. Classified Morris NewsBee [email protected] Echoes-Sentinel Morris Plains, Morris Twp., Morris- A separate classified word for (908) 766-3900 ext. 247 Warren Twp. and Watchung (in town. word section including automotive, Staff Writer: Somerset County), Long Hill Twp. (in real estate, help wanted, for sale, Brett Friedensohn Morris County). Observer~Tribune work wanted and many more list- Chester Borough, Chester Twp., Hard- [email protected] ings are carried in all New Jersey (908) 766-3900 ext. 244 ing Twp., Mendham Borough, Mend- Hills Media Group newspapers and ham Twp. and Washington Twp. web sites. New Jersey Hills Media Group theprogressnj.com Our Town PAGE 5 Essex County: Center for Culture, Commerce County Administration Building, 465 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Hall of Records, Newark 07102 (973) 621-4432, essexcountynj.org Essex County within its 129.56 square um. miles contains 22 municipalities. Caldwell, The Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J. oper- Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell, Rose- ates Newark Liberty International Airport land and West Caldwell are in its north- and the Newark-Elizabeth Marine Termi- western sector. nal. The counties that adjoin Essex are Passa- The county center is 12 miles from New ic on the north, Bergen and Hudson to the York City and two hours from Philadelphia. east, Union on the south, with Morris span- Eleven major highways plus NJ Transit ning its western border. trains and buses traverse Essex County. As of 2014, Essex County’s Census-estat- The Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J. also ed population was 795,723, an increase of provides PATH subway service from Penn 1.5 percent from the 2010 U.S. Census. Grover Cleveland Park is the seventh-larg- Station, Newark, to mid-town Manhattan, The population is composed of 42.6 per- est park in the Essex County park system, while NJ Transit’s 4.3-mile Newark Subway cent white, 41 percent black and 4.6 percent covering 41.48 acres along the Cald- and light rail system links Newark’s north- Asian. The 20 percent Hispanic population ern suburbs with Penn Station, Newark, spans those groups. well-Essex Fells border. and to Amtrak trains serving the North- The median household income according eastern Corridor. to the 2010 census was $53,712. Street, Newark. About 75 percent of the county is zoned The county’s 6,000-acre park system, cre- Restored also, in front of the courthouse, for residential development, except in large ated in 1895, was the first county park sys- is a larger-than-life sculpture of a weary municipalities like Newark, where com- tem established in the country. Frederick Abraham Lincoln resting on a bench. He merce and industry prevail. Law Olmstead designed Branch Brook Park has removed his top hat and it rests beside The chance for enlightenment abounds in Newark, which was the first to open. It is him. Gutzon Borglum created this sculp- in Essex County at Seton Hall Universi- included on the National and State Histor- ture. He also carved out Mount Rushmore. ty, Bloomfield College, Caldwell Universi- ic Registers. Thomas Alva Edison filmed the first mo- ty, Essex County College, Rutgers Universi- Olmstead’s landscape architectural firm tion pictures in his Black Maria studio, ty, Montclair State University, University of designed most of the other parks in the sys- which is well worth a visit at the Edison Na- Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and tem. Branch Brook Park has a greater vari- tional