Lace up and race with Maplewood in Motion

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Maplewood Lions Club sponsors its 17th annual Maplewood in Motion 5K and Kids Fun Run on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 9 a.m. beginning on Maplewood Avenue in front of Freeman’s Fish Market. Bring your family and friends to run, jog and even walk through the beautiful, tree-lined certified 5K course throughout […]

America’s shadow wars

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Mark Mazzetti, the Washington investigations editor for The New York Times, a job he assumed after covering national security from The Times’ Washington bureau for 10 years, will discuss America’s shadow wars from Sept. 11, 2001, to the Trump era at a South-Orange Maplewood Adult School lecture on Thursday, Oct. 19, at […]

Giovanni to appear at CHS

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Save the date! Nikki Giovanni, a world-renowned poet, author, social justice activist and teacher, will present “Diversity as Art: Art is Diversity” on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Columbia High School, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood. This event is hosted by the Parenting Center. Giovanni is the recipient of multiple […]

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Award-winning art history education Janet Mandel will discuss Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in a South Orange-Maplewood Adult School lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 17, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in room D16 at Columbia High School. In February of 1888 van Gogh traveled to Arles in the south of France to […]

‘Without a Net: the Digital Divide in America’

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — On Sunday, Oct. 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Columbia High School, attend a screening of a new documentary presented by Verizon called “Without a Net: the Digital Divide in America.” The film explores how the “digital divide” in education is impacting millions of students across America. Immediately following the […]

SHU partners with nonprofit, SOMSD hopes to be next

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall University announced a partnership with Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers on Monday, Sept. 18, officially signing an agreement that will go into effect in August 2018 for the 2018-2019 school year. The nonprofit organization is a teacher mentoring program that launched 23 years ago to address the teacher diversity gap […]

‘Black and Blue’ sheds light on stigmas for black males

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Addressing the stigmas surrounding black masculinity is a difficult task, but that is exactly what Maplewood resident and Columbia High School alumna Claudia Schafer hopes to do with her new exhibit “Black and Blue,” which examines the personal experiences with prejudice and racism of six young black men. The exhibit is on […]

‘American Movie Musical’

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — With its characters bursting into song and dance at the drop of a top hat, no Hollywood genre is more blissfully escapist than the movie musical — nor more attuned to the reality its audiences need to escape. The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School will look at the evolution of this genre and […]

CHSSF works to keep sending SOMA students to college

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School Scholarship Fund hosted its fifth annual cocktail reception for 120 guests at the Maplewood Club on Sept. 9 to raise money for the scholarships that will be distributed next May. The nonprofit awards need-based scholarships to graduates of Columbia High School to help fund their post-secondary education. In […]

CHS named the most beautiful school in NJ

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Architectural Digest recently published its list of the most beautiful public high schools in each state in the United States and Columbia High School in Maplewood took New Jersey’s top spot. CHS is one of the oldest schools in the country, having been founded in 1815, though the current Gothic revival building […]

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