MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls basketball team got to play only half as many games this season as they would in a normal year because of COVD-19, hitting the court 13 times as opposed to last year’s 24. But they didn’t let that stop them from having a good […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Montclair Art Museum’s fourth annual “Art Meets Jazz” performance may have had to go virtual this year, but the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop the show from going on. Isaiah J. Thompson took the online stage to perform on March 11, playing some of his own original music and standards that audience […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Township administrator Matthew Watkins is retiring at the end of the month, ending a five-and-a-half-year career in Bloomfield and a 40-year career in public service. The Bloomfield Township Council approved Watkins’ retirement in a resolution at the Feb. 8 meeting, and Watkins announced it himself in a letter to the community […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A fire that destroyed the recycling plant where Glen Ridge residents’ recyclables go to be sorted is still causing temporary changes to recycling pickup in the borough — and these changes could become permanent. Atlantic Coast Fibers has been completely shut down after the fire caused an estimated $22 million in […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield School District will begin hybrid learning in April, Superintendent Sal Goncalves announced at a Board of Education meeting on Feb. 23. It will be the first time students in Bloomfield will be in the school buildings in over a year, as the COVID-19 pandemic closed the district’s buildings in March […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A plan by the surrounding neighbors to save the Squier Farmhouse from demolition has gained steam in the time since the property owner was granted an allowance to split the property into two lots — presumably to demolish the centuries-old home and build two newer houses on the Ridgewood Road site […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Township Council voted to move forward with a Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT, agreement for the redevelopment plan at Executive Drive, moving another step closer to building a new library at 10 Rooney Circle to replace the current one on Mount Pleasant Avenue. The ordinance to […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood School District opened in a limited capacity on March 1, with English language learners across all grade levels, self-contained special education students and preschool students who have chosen hybrid instruction returning to the school buildings. Teachers for those students will teach in person from their classrooms. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge School District Director of Student Services Jack DeWitt presented the Student Safety Data System report at the Feb. 22 Glen Ridge Board of Education meeting, covering the period of time from July 1, 2020, to Dec. 31, 2020. The report included a summary of Harassment, Intimidation & Bullying investigations; […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Soham Bhatnagar has spent the last few weekends in a woodshop, in the hopes of bringing nonperishable food to people who need it. He’s building a Little Free Pantry, a spin on the Little Free Libraries that are scattered around West Orange offering books to anyone and everyone for free. The […]