Colony Pool in Chatham Township continued the summer festivities with a sandcastle contest Sunday afternoon. Add your photos of the contest to this gallery, and share your memories with your neighbors.

Colony Pool held Float Day Sunday, one of two days each summer when members are invited to break out their wackiest, silliest or just most comfortable floats and head into the pool. Add your photos from Float Day to this gallery, and let us know in the comments which float is your favorite!

As the new co-presidents of the Chatham Township Historical Society, one of the first duties of sisters Martha and Pat Wells was to pose for the new historical marker outside the Lewis Noe Homestead at 184 Southern Blvd.—which just happens to be the home they own together. The home was once owned by Lewis Noe, an American of French Hugenot origin who served as a sergeant during the Revolutionary War, according to Caroline Knott of the Historical Society.  Noe was present at Valley Forge while at home, his wife Phoebe housed Hessian soldiers in the farmhouse. She was of German ancestry, …

Annemarie Kling of Chatham Borough has decorated her basement with dozens of holiday figures and buildings to celebrate the winter holidays. Kling welcomes the public to view her display. Any interested in a tour can contact her at (973) 635-8289.

Clouds and showers didn't dampen the spirits of these few members of Colony Pool in the Township and the Municpal Pool in the Borough on the last day of the summer season. Check out the photo gallery to see how they enjoyed their last summer day at the pool.

Among the historic edifices on Southern Boulevard in Chatham Township is the Price-Baldwin house at 48 Southern Blvd. Sarah Stanley and Don Davidson now reside in the home, and they let Chatham Patch and the Chatham Township Historical Society inside to take a look. Deeds on the Price-Baldwin House date back as far as 1824. Examinations of the origional structure indicate that it was built sometime in the last half of the 18th century. The original walls were reinforced with animal hair and laid over with hand-split lathe boards. The house began as a farmhouse and over time it expanded to …

Along busy Southern Boulevard stands the historic Lewis Noe House at number 184. Today the home is owned and occupied by Patricia Wells, who allowed cameras from Chatham Patch to take some pictures of her historic home. The house was built in 1770 by Lewis Noe, a French Hugenot who served as a lieutenant in Morris County. His father was a fifer in the same regiment. According to the Historical Society of the Township of Chatham, Noe's wife Phoebe wasa an unwilling hostess to straggling or deserting soldiers from the Hessian troops. Phoebe spoke fluent German, so she was able to feed the …

Members of the Chatham Borough Board of Health, along with specail guests, gathered in the Library of the Chathams on Thursday evening to judge the entries to the borough's No Smoking poster contest. The contest was meant to publicize an ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco products in all borough parks, playgrounds and recreation areas, as well as at the Chatham Borough Municipal Building and the Library of the Chathams. Residents of both the borough and the township were invited to apply. Submissions were divided into categories by age, with one category for students from kindergarten …

The Lafayette School presented "The Wizard of Oz" Wednesday, under the direction of art teacher Janet L. Kraemer. Numerous volunteers and students helped bring this Chatham tradition to life with a morning show at 9:30 a.m. and an evening show at 7 p.m.

Thousands of athletes, families and supporters decended on Ridge High School and the surrounding facilities for an all-day lacrosse tournament on Sunday. The event included 56 teams playing on eight fields in the T3 Lacrosse run event.

The Chatham High School junior prom was held Friday at the Fairmount Country Club. Students came out for a night of fancy dress, delicious food, and non-stop dancing. Click through the gallery to see some of the night's highlights.

Postpartum Place in Chatham hosted The Great Cloth Diaper Challenge to raise awareness about the environmental benefits of using cloth diapers instead of disposable diapers. The Great Cloth Diaper Change expected to set a world record for the most cloth diapers ever changed simultaneously. Maplewood-based Green Bean Babies and Postpartum Place hosted a group of local cloth diapering parents who contributed along with others around the world in setting the world record.

Representatives from the Library of the Chathams, the Chatham Education Foundation, the Madison Area YMCA, the Senior Center of the Chathams and many other local community organizations gathered at Charlie Brown's Steakhouse Tuesday night for the Kiwanis Benevolence Reception. The Madison-Chatham Kiwanis Club raise money throughout the year to donate to various community services. These include college scholarships for students from Madison High School and Chatham High School, ECLC in Chatham, Sage-Meals on Wheels and Project Community Pride. All these organizations and more had a presence at…

Chatham Patch invited the Chatham Borough Historic Preservation Commission to submit photographs of historic buildings in town and to provide some narrative to accompany the photos detailing the building's importance to the town. For their first installation, the commission chose to submit this photograph of Supper, a restaurant on Main Street in the borouth which was recently given the Jan Westfall Historic Preservation Award. The award was given to Karen and Tim Hayes, the owners of Supper, at the Jan. 24 Chatham Borough Council Meeting. The Hayes worked to preserve this diner, which was …

Chathamites gathered for the Kiwanis Club's Fish & Chips Dinner at Chatham High School. The Fish & Chips Dinner helped raise money for the Kiwanis Club's college scholarships and various community projects.

This week for the View Finder column, Chatham Patch has teamed up with the Chatham Township Historical Society to bring you a little piece of history and tell you about the Chatham Colony Association. The Chatham Colony Association was founded in 1924 as a socioeconomic experiment in communal living. Russian and other eastern European immigrants living in New York City wanted to pursue a natural environment with the freedom to live and think and educate their children outside of the metropolitan environment in the city. Sufficient interest was garnered from advertising in the Jewish Daily …

The Friends of the Library worked long hours to prepare over 39,000 donated items for their annual book sale last week and this week.

The congregation of St. Patrick Church dressed in green and celebrated the feast day of their patron saint on Friday. Eileen and Meg Moran, 16 and 15 respectively, delighted those present with their Irish step dancing, which they learned at the Marie Moore School of Irish Dance in Scotch Plains.

The Kiwanis Clubs of The Chathams and of Madison hosted a wine tasting last week that raised money for college scholarships to local students. Check out some of the photos from the event!

In honor of Read Across America Day Wednesday, students from Chatham High School travelled to Southern Boulevard School to encourage the kids to read.