ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Nichelle Oglesby was looking for a new job six months ago, when she reconnected with the Easterseals New Jersey office in Maplewood, a place that had formerly helped her in her previous work in retail. Oglesby is hard of hearing, so working with customers was difficult, because she and the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Students and staff at Demarest Elementary School met their new principal last week, as Mike Sullivan prepares to become head of the school in September. Currently the vice principal at John H. Walker Middle School in Nutley, Sullivan is taking over for Demarest departing interim Principal Deborah Ferrara, who has been at […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The end of a bizarre school year is approaching, and the Ridgewood Avenue School staff is hoping to celebrate their students as much as they can in the coming weeks, particularly the ones who will be moving on to middle school at Glen Ridge High School in September. Since the COVID-19 […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When schools open in September and classrooms look a little more like they did before the COVID-19 pandemic upended education and sent students home for virtual learning for more than a year, a new school will be opening in South Orange. The Village School of South Orange is open to enrollment […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — In a move that stunned the community, Kamaljit Kaur Zubieta resigned from her position on the South Orange–Maplewood Board of Education in a May 31 email, sent at 11:27 a.m., citing cliquish behavior and her conscience as reasons for her departure. “Effective today at 11:27 a.m., I formally resigned […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Past and present connected on the baseball field at West Orange High School May 21 and 22 as the Mountaineers recognized alumni from the Mountain High School Rams and West Orange High School Cowboys. “Throwback Weekend” featured two evenings of Mountaineer baseball, with players wearing the jerseys of the Mountain High […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, residents have been forced to adapt to a new world. While this may not have been the “new world” Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown meant when he wrote “Songs for a New World,” it is certainly apt. Embracing this new world of social distance and virtual […]
EAST ORANGE / ORANGE, NJ — With upcoming changes planned for the communities of Irvington, East Orange and Orange, a joint Economic & Residential Development Seminar was held at Sandwiches Unlimited in Orange on May 18, where municipal panelists were welcomed from all three communities to educate the public about upcoming development. The event was […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Youth leaders from around New Jersey, including two from West Orange, held a press conference on May 20 calling on state lawmakers to pass the New Jersey Green Amendment and add it to the state constitution. The amendment would add environmental rights to the constitution and protect rights to clean air, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley Partners for Peace gathered again in Yanticaw Park to work on the next phase of its public art project, cleaning and decorating the rocks that will be used to build a sculpture that spells the word “unity.” The art piece will be displayed on the lawn not far from where the […]