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 […]
By Paul Brubaker Special to the News-Record MAPLEWOOD — The South Orange Maplewood School District’s complaint about a girl being disqualified from a basketball game because of the way she was wearing her hair has been sent to the N.J. Division of Civil Rights. The district filed a bias complaint with the New Jersey State […]
MAPLEWOOD — Columbia High School Principal Frank Sanchez is on leave from his position and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Ann Bodnar is serving as acting principal of Columbia High School until further notice. A letter sent to parents from Kevin F. Gilbert, acting superintendent of schools for the School District of South Orange […]
A group of teenagers accidentally commit a crime. Friendships fracture and relationships go awry as they try to cover their tracks. The dark comedy, “DNA,” is being presented by Columbia High School (CHS)’s Parnassian Society and performed at the Black Box Theater this November. It’s the first production directed by James Bale Dyer, an English […]