SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Students and staff at Columbia High School asked the South Orange–Maplewood Board of Education and district administrators to address sexual assault and harassment among students at the April 19 BOE meeting, after students identified themselves as victims and shared their experiences online in early March. BOE student representative Lily […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — A cold and windy Earth Day didn’t stop South Orange residents from stopping by the library on April 22 for Makers Mayhem, where they could play games, do crafts and plant flowers in stations around the building. A patch of grass was dug up and reserved for a garden in front […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who represents Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District and serves as the Democratic Caucus chairperson in the U.S. House of Representatives, will deliver the keynote address at the 108th annual Oranges & Maplewood NAACP Freedom Fund Gala, held virtually this year with the theme “When We Fight We Win.” […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — After serving for seven months in an interim role, Father Colin Kay has been appointed vice president for mission and ministry at Seton Hall University. “Father Colin’s energy, outreach and care for our students has demonstrated the strength of Seton Hall’s Catholic identity during this most unusual year,” SHU President Joseph […]
WATCHUNG, NJ — Kathleen Brennan, chairperson of the Department of Mathematics at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, announced that the academy’s Fed Challenge team had a paper, “Leading Factors of Gender Inequality,” accepted into the Journal of Future Economists. “As a girls school, it made perfect sense for us to investigate the role that […]
NORTH BRANCH, NJ — Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey, along with Girl Scouts across the country, are collaborating to plant five million trees by 2026 to help wildlife, improve the environment and greatly expand the amount of tree cover. Girl Scouts have been strong advocates and stewards of the environment since 1912. Climate change […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood has much to offer its intergenerational population and is committed to continuing to build an age-friendly community, according to an April 21 press release from the town. To that end the Maplewood Seniors Advisory Committee was formed as a subcommittee of the Maplewood Township Committee to advise the township on ways […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Someone in a heavy, four-wheel drive vehicle drove in concentric circles tearing up the grassy field at Mayapple Hill in the South Mountain Reservation earlier this April. The county is filling in the ruts and replanting the grass, but this diverts its scarce resources, and makes the field unusable at this […]
MAHWAH, NJ — This past year, as communities across New Jersey and the country faced an array of challenges caused by the pandemic, concern over racial injustice unrest and natural disasters, unsung heroes stepped up to help feed, comfort and educate their neighbors, and in other ways protect public health and safety. On Friday, May […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange and Maplewood community came together on April 18 for “Remember & Tell: The SOMA Interfaith Holocaust Service,” to remember the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Despite the annual event being held virtually this year, it was incredibly poignant; the virtual platform actually allowed for […]