SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange Environmental Commission Chairman Bill Haskins presented the South Orange Board of Trustees with the commission’s 2020 budget at its Dec. 9 meeting, outlining its plans for the year ahead. The commission asked the village for $10,500, which will be added to the $16,051.50 in grants it has either received […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Friday, Dec. 13, Jeff Rottman, owner and founder of GR Pottery Forms, provided masterclasses to Columbia High School students taking ceramics courses. Rottman demonstrated the craft of creating plates and bowls and discussed starting his business and the value of entrepreneurship. Rottman explained how he applied a new material, medium-density fiberboard, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Ray Kienzle suspects he became Essex County’s lamplighter because he’s tall. An employee of PSE&G since 1988, Kienzle has been doing maintenance and upkeep on all 1,453 of South Orange’s gas lamps since 1990, in addition to the rest of the county’s 2,500 lamps. He repairs, repaints and restores the lights […]
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — The Pingry School’s Drama Department presented Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” in November. The story follows the inhabitants of a fictional American town as they learn an invaluable life lesson, even if it’s a little too late. Pictured are the cast and crew: front row, from left, are Ram Doraswamy of Short […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Five members of the Columbia High School band program were recently selected as members of the 2019-2020 North Jersey Area Honor Bands. Rosalie Baron, a junior flute player; Lauren Kasdan, a sophomore French horn player; and Nosh Schloff, a senior French horn player, were all selected as members of the Area Symphonic […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, ranking member on the Senate’s transit subcommittee, and U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill announced Dec. 13 the awarding of $17,275,000 in federal funding to enhance commuter bus service, expand capacity and reduce wait times for riders on dozens of overcrowded NJ Transit routes in Essex, Hudson and Bergen counties. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An ordinance forming the Essex County Correctional Facility Civilian Task Force was recently approved, according to a Dec. 12 announcement from Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo and Freeholder President Brendan Gill. Creating the ordinance was a collaborative effort and its adoption allows the process of nominating members to the task force […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Margaret “Peggy” Tally, a professor in SUNY Empire State College’s School for Graduate Studies, has been named a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Professor by the State University of New York board of trustees. SUNY Empire’s sixth faculty member to hold this title, Tally has been a resident of Maplewood since 1997. SUNY’s Distinguished […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School film student Jordan Miller won the Best Fiction Film Award for his movie, “You Have The Right To Remain Silent,” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the fifth annual High School Film Festival hosted by Ramapo College of New Jersey. Other students who worked on the film included Jordan Young, […]
TRENTON, NJ — Looking to make New Jersey public schools seizure safe, a bill providing for school personnel to be trained in seizure first aid and authorizing the creation of individualized seizure action plans for students with epilepsy was approved in the Assembly Education Committee on Dec. 9. Sponsors of the bill, Assembly Democrats Mila […]