Experience a wide variety of hand made items including traditional craft, fine art and country crafts at Chester’s 36th annual Fall Craft Show. The event returns to Chester, New Jersey, next weekend: Saturday, September 12th and Sunday, September 13th from 10:00am until 5:00pm, rain or shine. Chester’s Fall Craft Show was featured in Sunshine Artist Magazine’s Top 200 Craft Shows and is one of the largest in New Jersey, showcasing over 250 unique exhibitors. Artists and craftspeople from... Read Full Story
Rex, London, Maddie and I are staying down at our beach house in Bay Head, New Jersey, until Sunday, but we will make it back in time for the last day of the Pastime Club Carnival and the Labor Day Parade in Mendham Borough.
The 2009 Labor Day Carnival starts tomorrow — Friday, September 4th — and continues through Labor Day Monday, September 7th. The carnival runs from 6pm to 10:30pm on Friday the 4th and 6pm to 10:30pm on Saturday the 5th. On Sunday, September 6th, games and races... Read Full Story
Our quiet Thanksgiving for four here in the Roxiticus Valley was the perfect remember of how much our family has to be thankful for, and particularly as the Christmas holidays approach, we are reminded of those who are less fortunate. Just before the Thanksgiving break, London and Maddie brought home a flier in their backpack mail from Mendham Township Elementary School:
Help End Hunger in Our Community
Did you know that during the holiday seasons food banks run low on supplies? Now... Read Full Story
Yesterday, London and Maddie’s backpack mail brought the good news that, through the generosity of the Mendham Township Home and School Association (HSA), the students at Mendham Township Elementary School will have the pleasure of a visit from celebrated author Dan Gutman next Friday, November 21, 2008. According to the flier, Dan Gutman has “ devised a wonderful mechanism for teaching social history while teaching a great tale. “ He specializes in taking readers on journeys through... Read Full Story
Well it has been rightly said that the children of today are the future of tomorrow. So character building of kids should be done today so that there can a better society for everyone and everyone can live in this society safe guarding his values and ethics.
Children like short stories right from the beginning of the time. I too remember asking my mother to read a story for me at bed time every day. The point is that these short stories have a very strong impact on the child and he... Read Full Story
Just before the snowstorm on Saturday the 10th, Rex, London, Maddie and I headed over from the girls’ Mendham Patriots basketball clinic to the Mendham Township Public Libary . London’s second grade art class at Mendham Township Elementary School had their projects on display in late December and early January; unfortunately, it seemed as though we had just missed it, and that the library was ready to move on to its next exhibit.
However, we took the opportunity to stock up on books for... Read Full Story
What is it about the holidays that always seems to bring plumbing problems to our home? Over the past five years since we’ve lived here in Mendham Township, New Jersey, we’ve had the following holiday plumbing incidents:
Thanksgiving 2003: Backed up toilet in the half bath off the kitchen
Thanksgiving 2004: Broken washing machine
Christmas 2005: Broken hot water heater spewing water all over the basement floor
Christmas 2008: Kitchen sink clog spewing water all over the... Read Full Story
What is it about the holidays that always seems to bring plumbing problems to our home? Over the past five years since we’ve lived here in Mendham Township, New Jersey, we’ve had the following holiday plumbing incidents:
Thanksgiving 2003: Backed up toilet in the half bath off the kitchen
Thanksgiving 2004: Broken washing machine
Christmas 2005: Broken hot water heater spewing water all over the basement floor
Christmas 2008: Kitchen sink clog spewing water all over the kitchen... Read Full Story
Does Mendham Township Elementary School have an Orange Thumb? The Mendham Township Education Foundation is hard at work raising funds for a very important and exciting project at London and Maddie's school. With the generous support of Mendham Township parents and others, the education foundation is working to construct an outdoor learning center in the Mendham Township Elementary School library courtyard, converting an unused area to a rich learning center that will strongly benefit the... Read Full Story
