SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood School District broke ground on another portion of the Long Range Facilities Plan at South Mountain Elementary School on March 22, starting the 18-month process to build nine new classrooms, a courtyard and a revamped playground. The fifth project to get off the ground, South Mountain’s expansion is […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Ron Negra was cleaning out a closet at his mother’s house in Lacey Township in 2019 when he found a sealed box filled with decades-old letters from people located all around the country. They were responses to letters his mother, Agnes Negra, had written during World War II to families of soldiers, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Board of Education was presented with the preliminary 2022-2023 budget at a special meeting on March 24, starting the annual budget-approval process for next school year. According to new interim Superintendent Lauren Schoen at her first meeting as the temporary head of the district, the district is expecting […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Public Library’s art section just got a lot bigger, after a donation of more than 500 books from artist Nell Irvin Painter. The donation contains an array of books about black artists, art history and different art movements. A writer and artist who is a history professor emerita […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington Education Association is gearing up for its spring grocery giveaway, a biannual tradition in the Irvington School District. The union gives away groceries to families in the district around Thanksgiving and Easter, in advance of school breaks, so students in the district don’t have to worry about not having anything […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School’s Advanced Placement art students are back at the West Orange Arts Center gallery after a two-year pandemic hiatus, their work hanging in the gallery for the next month. The show is run almost entirely by the nine senior AP art students from WOHS, with help from the […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The corner of Park Avenue and North Clinton Street was renamed Osvaldo Antoine Way on March 17 in honor of the East Orange resident and longtime East Orange Campus High School girls soccer team coach, who died on March 19 of last year. Antoine was the uncle of current 3rd Ward […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maplewood resident Daniel Kaslow spent his time at home diving even deeper into the town. His book, “Maplewood A-Z: A Compendium of Notable People, Places & Events in the History of Maplewood, 1680-2022,” started out as a research project when he worked as a docent […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Irvington, Orange and East Orange followed up last year’s first Tri-Community Commercial and Residential Development seminar with the same event on March 10 at Sandwiches Unlimited in Orange, with officials from all three towns updating residents and business owners on upcoming and ongoing redevelopment projects happening. Jadette Williams and Osner Charles […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood School District and South Orange–Maplewood Education Association’s negotiations on a new contract for the teachers union broke down and, after attending several mediation sessions since the beginning of January, the two groups will now be moving forward with a fact finder, who will propose a solution […]