WEST ORANGE, NJ — The world languages honor society inductions were held at West Orange High School on May 16 for Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish. “Our community is already very diverse, but we want our students to succeed in a global market,” Principal Hayden Moore said. “We took a serious and strong stand on […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Hispanic Foundation will have a presentation on “Take Me Home” on Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m. at 315 Main St. in West Orange. “Take Me Home” is a registration and monitoring program recently launched by the West Orange Police Department to help locate residents at risk of […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Jordan Herskowitz, Golda Och Academy’s Upper School director of student life and arts department chair, has been selected to serve on the Educational Theatre Association’s Model Curriculum Framework Project. Out of more than 100 applicants for the program, EdTA selected 12, two-member teams of high school theater educators and teaching artists […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Friends of the West Orange Public Library, a nonprofit, has planned a spring book and plant sale to be held at the West Orange Public Library on Saturday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the lower level of the library, 46 Mt. Pleasant Ave., and outside under the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Two Paterson men are charged with duping a Midwestern grandfather in a fake bail scheme, according to a May 22 press release from the township of West Orange. Jose Alexander Mercedes, 28, and Reynaldito Ulloacastillo, 31, were arrested on May 17 in a sting by West Orange detectives as the two […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Chabad of West Orange will host a educational session discussing whether we are bound by fate or have free choice on Tuesday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m. at 401 Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange. If God already knows what we will do tomorrow, is our “free choice” nothing more than […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — At the May 21 West Orange Board of Education meeting, a speaker alleged during public speaks that a district employee had misused district funds, prompting a cover-up by Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Rutzky. According to records made public by the speaker, a Gregory School employee used school funds in 2016 to […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The award-winning West Orange High School Music Department once again proved that it is the best of the best with the May 10 spring chorus concert. The Treble Choir, Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, Jubilee Choir and Glee Club came together for an enjoyable and inspiring evening of contemporary, classical, Broadway and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — A week before Mother’s Day, David Alsieux began removing two huge stumps and an ailing tree from his mother’s yard on Cornell Street. This was just the first step in his plan to gift his mom, Barbara Iris Alsieux, with a beautiful garden for Mother’s Day. “He worked diligently removing the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Board of Education unanimously passed the 2018-2019 preliminary budget at its May 7 meeting at Liberty Middle School. The preliminary operating budget totals $149,186,427. Salaries make up 63 percent of the district’s operating costs at $94,315,752. Benefits and special education services combined take up approximately 24 percent of […]