Photos by Rocco Ungaro MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School baseball team defeated Millburn High School, 6-5, on Monday, April 15, at Underhill Field. Columbia was leading 5-0 heading into the seventh, but Millburn came back to tie the game in the top of the inning, only to see Columbia score in the […]
MAPLEWOOD — A Columbia High School student was assaulted as he was leaving school at the end of the day on Tuesday. The student, whose name was not released, was treated by the school nurse and first responders who arrived at the scene along with police and then taken to the hospital for further treatment, […]
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 […]
SOUTH ORANGE — The South Orange Performing Arts Center will celebrate its arts education programs during the month of April with music, art and dance from Columbia High School students. “Throughout the years, SOPAC has been diligently working behind the scenes to support the arts education programs offered to the students in our community,” explains […]
Signs supporting Columbia High School Principal Frank Sanchez have been popping up around town and supporters have rallied to his side while the warrant that led to his arrest was released and it provides some additional details about what led to the charges against him. A group calling itself Friends of Frank has formed in […]
The warrant that led to the arrest of Columbia High School Principal Frank Sanchez this week provides some details of the encounter between Sanchez and a student that led to the charges against him. Sanchez turned himself in this week at the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and was charged with one count of second degree […]
Stressing the importance of having and using ID cards, improving communications, and making sure doors can’t be propped open are among the steps being taken in the wake of two Code Yellow incidents at Columbia High School. South Orange & Maplewood School District Acting Superintendent of Schools Kevin F. Gilbert spoke at the Board of […]
By Paul Brubaker Special to the News-Record A “tree person” inspired during the pandemic shutdown and a cicada freshly emerged from its shell were the works of art created by two Columbia High School student-artists displayed at the 36th annual Emerging Artists exhibit at Kean University on Sunday. Senior Ciara Navan and Sophomore Z Hunt […]
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) has determined Caldwell High School coaches and game officials did not act in a biased manner or with any biased intent when a Columbia High School girl’s basketball player was removed from a game because of the beads in her hair. “The evidence shows that they acted […]
MAPLEWOOD — It started as a project in Art Teacher Curtis Grayson’’s classes about Spain – its culture, its architecture and its artists. And then, Ricardo The Bull happened. The more than 600-pound steer, who escaped the slaughterhouse and took to the streets and rail lines of Newark, captured the hearts and imaginations of Grayson […]