Beginner’s luck? Not likely. But the Glen Ridge High School History Club, composed of seventh- and eighth-graders, after their first-ever inter-school competitions, are now poised to compete in the national championships this May. They qualified by finishing second in the state championship, held at Ridgewood High School, on Jan. 20. For good measure, they then […]
Mairead Chern, the Fairview Elementary School Teacher of the Year, has also been named Bloomfield Public School Teacher of the Year. A language arts interventionist, Chern is Bloomfield born and raised, graduating from Bloomfield High School, in 1991. She lived on East Passaic Avenue. (Her given name is Gallic and her parents were born in […]
The tradition-ladened Women’s Club of Glen Ridge held its annual fundraiser, My Favorite Doll’s Tea Party, on Sunday afternoon, March 9. This event surely is a red-letter day on many a little girl’s calendar evidenced by the number of them making their way to Snowden Place, clutching a doll with mother in tow. They gathered […]
By chance, a tragedy that would have reverberated through the township for years instead ended with the prospects of a 10-year-old boy explaining to his mother how he managed to come home, after an afternoon with friends, jacketless, swaddled in a blanket and soaked to the bone. “Dispatch got a call from a neighbor with […]
The recently concluded Bloomfield High School Thespian Society production of “Alice By Heart” is a story about conflicting territories. One territory is the subterranean shelter for English children fleeing their city streets during the Nazi bombardment blitz of London during World War II. The second territory is in the mind of Alice Spenser, a child […]
Celeste Varricchio, the founder and director of the Mosaic Dance Theater Co., said federal funding cuts will not affect her troupe and the National Endowment for the Arts wants art organizations to develop programming for the upcoming U.S. semiquincentennial. “But diversity, equality and inclusive programming is ineligible for federal funding,” she said. “They want programming […]
Black History Month is currently being observed at Carteret Elementary School with student posters taped in hallways and classroom doors showing the familiar faces of Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin Powell and Rosa Parks. But the times, they are a-changin’ and consequently new faces and unknowns are breaking into the historic lineup pictured. Who is […]
The Glen Ridge Middle School will present the junior edition of the franchise hit, “High School Musical,” on Friday, March 14, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 15, at 1 p.m, at the Ridgewood Avenue School auditorium. The show will be directed by Heather Ballantyne. She has 50 students into two separate casts with the […]
With this especially cold winter hardly moving toward spring and daffodils, the Glen Ridge Environmental Advisory Committee gave Mr. Jack Frost a much needed kick in the pants to vamoose by holding its first ever plant swap Saturday, Feb. 15. The modest yet enthusiastic event was held at the public library in a first-floor room. […]
Cutbacks of federal agencies are underway in Washington, D.C. and although nothing has been done yet, the Department of Education is not being overlooked. Regarding education, the current administration advocates that states would better serve the nation’s children than the federal government and believes school funding should be controlled by states. Consequently, at the local […]