Cub Scout Den 5-Pack 32 took second place in the Group/Family category of the Essex County Environmental Center’s Seventh Annual Essex County Gingerbread Homes and Habitats Contest. Ron Arias and Andrew Hunt are pictured above with Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr.; Josh Salerno also worked on the entry. There were more honors...
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Twenty-two Brownies of Troop 21221 gathered at Laning Avenue school on Friday to earn their Earth Is Our Home badge and create some environmentally themed gingerbread houses to enter into Essex County’s Sustainable Gingerbread House contest. The meeting kicked off with the girls brainstorming ways they could help make the Earth a better place....
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Essex County is once again holding its Sustainable Homes and Habitats Gingerbread contest at the Essex County Environmental Center. The contest is free and there are a variety of categories in which participants can compete. But if you want to enter you’re going to have to hurry. The deadline to register is Saturday, December...
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The Essex County Environmental Center will hold its annual Green Holiday Gift Fair this Saturday, December 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A variety of local vendors and local artisans will be selling sustainable and alternative gifts that are eco-friendly and made of recyclable materials. Some of the items for sale include paper...
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All 130 poster submissions from Verona’s elementary schools to the 2011 VEC poster contest “Idle Free Verona” are being exhibited at the Essex County Environmental Center until the end of this month. The center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m....
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Essex County will hold its annual Oktoberfest at the Environmental Center in Roseland on Saturday, October 1, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free, family event includes canoe trips on the Passaic River and nature, as well as a petting zoo, gardening tips, a live beehive display, wood-turning demonstrations, pumpkin-carving demonstrations, nature arts...
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Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (center) announced on Monday, August 22, that the TD Charitable Foundation has made a commitment to contribute $80,000 over the next four years to support educational programs and events at Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange and the Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland, and...
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Essex County is once again holding its Book Swap at the Environmental Center in Roseland. This Saturday, May 21, residents who bring books to the Center will get a voucher that they can spend on some of the many books that will be brought it. If you don’t have books to swap, you can...
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If you think there’s nothing going on outside in all that snow, think again. The Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland will take children ages 7 to 11 into the winter woodlands on Wednesday, February 9 to show them what’s happening. The program is called “Outdoor Adventure Club” and it meets at 4 p.m....
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The Essex County Environmental Center has a rather unusual family craft class coming up this Saturday. It’s called “Winter Ice Wreath”, and it will teach you how to create a wreath with orange slices, cranberries and bird seed to be a winter feeding station. The cost is $6 per child and you’ve got to...
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