By Trey Williams and Jocelyn Moody Special to The Independent Press Bloomfield is 8,180 miles from Makhanda, South Africa. Daisha Robinson traveled all those miles recently as part of her studies as a media communications student at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. Robinson set out in January for the town that is in […]
Trout season begins on Saturday, April 6. New Jersey waterways will be freshly stocked with more than 180,000 rainbow trout, as well as larger broodstock, in time for the 8 a.m. start of the season, according to a press release from the state Department of Environmental Protection. “I can’t think of a better way to […]
WEST ORANGE — A film about the difficulties an underprivileged intellectual must overcome to realize his dreams for the future is the latest work and the directorial debut for a West Orange filmmaker. “His mother is an alcoholic, his dad is absent, but he uses his education to catapult himself out of the circumstances,” said […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — For the past few seasons, Marco Soto said he served as sort of a “mentor” to Ashley “Smoke” Pierre, just like he did many years ago. Soto was Pierre’s coach when he was an assistant coach and Pierre was a varsity football player at now defunct Bayley-Ellard High School in Madison. A […]
MAPLEWOOD — A new interim principal has been named for Columbia High School. Ricardo Pedro sent a letter to parents on Tuesday announcing that he had taken the position for the remainder of the school year and introducing himself as a veteran administrator with 32 years of education experience. Pedro said that he taught math […]
MAPLEWOOD — Arab Heritage Month will be celebrated at HabibiFest on Saturday, April 20, at The Woodland. The event, which is a free, family-friendly community celebration, will feature live performances, including dabke dancing, belly dancing, tanoura and live music; food, desserts, a souq featuring local artists and vendors, and interactive children’s workshops and activities, according […]
John Caplanis reached the rank of Eagle Scout, which is the highest attainable in the Boy Scouts of America. This event was formally commemorated on March 8, at the The Eagle Court of Honor for Troop 2 at the West Orange Elks Club. Caplanis, a senior at West Orange High School, moved through the scouting […]
Fourteen second-floor classrooms at Glen Ridge High School were a hive of activity Saturday, March 16, for kids who like to tinker. It was Makers Day, a statewide initiative highlighting science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM activities. The event was made possible through the Glen Ridge Education Association with a Pride grant administered by […]
Richard Rockwell, township councilman and in the words of Mayor Ted Gamble, “the de facto town historian,” spoke about his 2015 photography book, “Bloomfield Through Time,” on Saturday evening, March 23, at the Oakes Cultural Center. Informed, amusing and self-effacing, Rockwell’s presentation of “then and now” photographs of township dwellings, often of long-demolished homes, many […]
MAPLEWOOD — The Durand-Hedden House & Garden will host guest lecturer Gregory Pope for an afternoon talk on April 14 about what New Jersey looked like 20,000 years ago in the era of the Late Pleistocene glaciers. Attendees will get a chance to imagine First Mountain covered with hundreds of feet of ice, with debris […]