EAST ORANGE, NJ — There was more on the menu than turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the usual Thanksgiving dishes at the East Orange Salvation Army pre-Thanksgiving Community Dinner on Sunday, Nov. 20. Salvation Army Advisory Board Chairperson Goldie Burbage also used the occasion to introduce Tahira Muhammad as the new president of the city’s […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — It is the end of an era for the Golda Och Academy’s girls volleyball program, as varsity coach Michael Karu has retired after 15 years nurturing the growth of the school’s female volleyball players. According to Karu, he leaves the program with a 134-87 record and a 2012 Colonial Division championship […]
NJDOE proposes changes to increase superintendent salary cap, but districts want the cap gone
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Education on Nov. 16 released proposed revisions to a portion of the state’s Accountability Regulations, including changes to the superintendent salary cap provisions. The proposal would adjust salary maximums and make other changes to the cap process. Going into effect in 2011, the cap […]
ORANGE, NJ — When Orange’s public schools hosted its seventh annual Teen Summit at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School on Saturday, Nov. 19, it was different from those that had preceded it for a number of reasons. “We didn’t do Friday; we just did Saturday, one day,” said Teen Summit founder Laura Sacks, who is also […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield resident and 1978 Glen Ridge High School graduate Guy Gsell puts on a really big show. Combining live performances with animatronic dinosaurs, Gsell is the creator and operator of a dinosaur-theme park in Leonia, named “Field Station: Dinosaurs.” “I went to the World’s Fair in 1965 and saw dinosaurs,” he said recently […]
NJDOE proposes changes to increase superintendent salary cap, but districts want the cap gone
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The New Jersey Department of Education on Nov. 16 released proposed revisions to a portion of the state’s Accountability Regulations, including changes to the superintendent salary cap provisions. The proposal would adjust salary maximums and make other changes to the cap process. Going into effect in 2011, the cap provisions set […]
Synagogue continues legacy of supporting immigrants
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange celebrated its 25-year anniversary of helping more than 40 emigres from the former Soviet Union resettle in the area with a free musical performance by professional cellist and former emigre Andrey Tchekmazov on Nov. 19. Tchekmazov, one of the children originally settled through Oheb Shalom’s […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — English writer Sir Francis Bacon coined the phrase: “If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” And though that was written hundreds of years ago, Jennifer Myers, the public affairs officer for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Newark Regional Office, said it still applies today. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The attorney representing four Bloomfield residents who successfully blocked the acquisition of open space land has been notified that the township will petition the NJ Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision. Mark Maryanski, attorney for Bloomfield residents Russell Mollica, James Wollner, Chris Stanziale and former Mayor Raymond McCarthy, said he […]
Symposium aims to keep children safe from trafficking
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Most people think of slavery as a terrible institution from our past and look to the outcome of the Civil War as the beacon that ended it. But they are wrong. The United Nations’ International Labor Organization estimates that there are more slaves worldwide now than there have been at any other […]