Dancers, art students team up for gallery show

Dancers, art students team up for gallery show

MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Columbia High School’s Special Dance Company and a group of art students joined forces to put together a show for the school’s Domarecki Gallery, bringing to life the movement of the dancers while art depicting them hung on the walls. The collaboration was the brainchild of Dance Company artistic director Kandice […]

Orange resident pens ‘Hanging With Vampires’

Orange resident pens ‘Hanging With Vampires’

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — When the publisher Quirk Books was looking to launch a series about supernatural phenomena for kids in the middle grades, writer Insha Fitzpatrick immediately knew she wanted in. A lifelong horror fan, Fitzpatrick penned the first book in the “Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural” series, released on March 28. […]

It’s a race to the finish at Pinewood Derby

It’s a race to the finish at Pinewood Derby

NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley’s Cub Scout Pack 141 returned to the John H. Walker Middle School gym on Friday, Jan. 27, for its annual Pinewood Derby, racing down a track to determine the fastest homemade cars. Joseph Kaplow’s car won first place with a speed of 159.25 miles per hour; Carter Teese came in second […]

Teacher makes claim in lawsuit she was not provided necessary aides

Teacher makes claim in lawsuit she was not provided necessary aides

MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A former teacher in the South Orange-Maplewood School District filed a lawsuit against the district, saying she was asked to teach a class that included special education students but was not provided the proper amount of paraprofessionals to assist her which exacerbated her anxiety disorder. Sarah Barlow, who taught kindergarten at […]

Maplewood’s preliminary budget presented

Maplewood’s preliminary budget presented

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood began forming its 2023 municipal budget with hearings on Monday, Jan. 30, and Tuesday, Jan. 31, with township administrators presenting a preliminary draft of the budget to the Township Committee on Monday, Jan. 30. The township is aiming to raise taxes by only 2 percent. Public safety, which typically is the […]

Columbia High School artists explore African masks in new exhibit

Columbia High School artists explore African masks in new exhibit

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Art students at Columbia High School joined forces with the social studies department for an exhibit in the Domarecki Art Gallery, spending a month building three-dimensional African masks in tandem with learning about them in class. In groups of three or four, students chose an African country and constructed their own version […]

SOMA community comes together to celebrate King’s legacy

SOMA community comes together to celebrate King’s legacy

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration returned in person to the Columbia High School auditorium for the first time in three years, bringing the community together to celebrate the holiday. The keynote speaker was Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber, chief activist at the Bayard Rustin Center […]

West Orange hardware store celebrates centennial

West Orange hardware store celebrates centennial

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The year 1923 was a big year for innovation — Garrett Morgan received a patent for the traffic light, cathode ray tubes for television were invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin and Clarence Birdseye established the modern frozen food industry. And on Main Street in West Orange, Schneider Hardware made its first […]

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