MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In a May 13 update, the South Orange-Maplewood School District reported that it received the results from an April test of 21 plumbing fixtures in the district; only one unit had an unacceptable level of lead and failed the retest. The district retested the 21 fixtures, which had been offline during the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Gowns and tuxedos, corsages and boutonnieres, vivacious dancing and smiling faces — the gym at the MetroWest JCC location in West Orange looked just like prom night May 6. But this prom was not for area high school students or even just teenagers. The formal dance was presented to the community […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Columbia High School senior Jordan Stephan of South Orange is a pitcher for the CHS softball team and for the Jersey Outlaws Gold. She has been playing softball since she was 6-years-old and began playing club softball when she was in seventh-grade. Since then, she has played softball every spring, summer […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School senior Luke Jackson is the starting third baseman on the varsity high school baseball team. Jackson has lived in Maplewood his entire life and baseball has always been a large part of that life and who he is as a person. In his time on the CHS baseball team, […]
For nine years, SOMA nonprofit has partnered with community to combat hunger, food insecurity
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — For nine years, Rent Party has been providing the South Orange-Maplewood community with “good music and cold beer at a reasonable price.” The nonprofit organization, founded by friends Chris Dickson and David Wagner, not only brings stellar live music to The Woodland in Maplewood one Friday each month, but fundraises for and […]
Young musicians get into treble with sax and violins
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange and Maplewood communities are full of artistic opportunities for young people, one of which has been around for a long time. The Youth Orchestras of Essex County, created in 1956, is the state’s longest running youth orchestra. Offering musical mastery to children from ages 8 to […]
Exhibit highlights humanity in students’ anti-gun protests
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — History shows that photography has the ability to change hearts and minds, to make a deep and lasting impression. Some photographs have become icons for whole periods of history, such as the “Migrant Mother, taken by Dorothea Lange, which shows the privation of the Great Depression. Approximately 30 photography students at Columbia […]
DeVaul pledges to work with public to repair broken trust
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Police Chief Jimmy DeVaul officially dropped “acting” from his title as he took the oath of office at the April 17 Township Committee meeting. DeVaul was officially sworn in as the new police chief by township clerk Liz Fritzen as his wife, Krista, stood beside him. His wife was not the only […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Author Peter Golden read from his new book, ‘Nothing is Forgotten,’ at Words Bookstore in Maplewood Village on Thursday, April 19. He led a discussion with attendees about Holocaust education and knowledge in this country, while discussing his new novel.
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Hundreds of South Orange and Maplewood residents came together on Sunday, April 15, to remember the victims of the Holocaust and to pledge that such an atrocity will not happen again on their watch. The Holocaust is the name given to the mass murder of Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, Romani and […]