MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Christian Pierre, a junior at Columbia High School, started playing baseball at a young age. CHS’ varsity centerfielder, also a player on the North Jersey Cardinals club baseball team, has been the varsity centerfielder since sophomore year. In his freshman year, Pierre won the Freshman MVP Award, and in his sophomore year […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School student Turner Andrasz recently earned a National Silver Medal in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2017. He has been identified by panels of creative professionals as one of the most talented young artists in the nation. This year, more than 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — With courageous acting and a provocative script, a group of Essex County teens brought the issues of slut-shaming and sexual assault to the forefront. Against a multimedia backdrop at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange, “SLUT The Play,” written by Katie Cappiello, was presented by NCJW/Essex to a […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School Class of 2017 students were the recipients of what may become a senior class tradition, the Black and Red Breakfast, as the students and their parents and guardians celebrated their accomplishments and listened to the reflections of CHS alumnus Eric Francis in the CHS Cafeteria on May 19. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Saturday, May 13, South Orange Middle School orchestra director Bill Cook hosted the All-North Jersey Elementary Honors Orchestra Festival at the school. The event is sponsored by the North Jersey School Music Association and includes students in grades four through six from the surrounding area. Columbia High School orchestra director […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbian, Columbia High School’s student-run newspaper, has earned the first-place award for the third consecutive year in an annual competition held by the American Scholastic Press Association. The national competition is open to student-run newspapers from across the country. Entries are critiqued on journalistic content, journalistic decision-making, visual layout and design, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School Art 4 and AP Studio Art classes from this past school year will present their work in an exhibition, “Verve,” at the CHS Domareki Gallery, 17 Parker Ave. in Maplewood. The exhibit will run from June 3 to 16 and will also be a part of the South […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — There was cause for celebration in Maplewood on Friday, May 13, as the township’s Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs honored the Woman’s Club of Maplewood on its 100th anniversary and, in turn, the Woman’s Club of Maplewood gave the Columbia High School Scholarship Fund a donation of $100,000 for future scholarships […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School’s 15th annual Shakespeare Festival, held Friday, April 28, followed the them “The Women of Shakespeare.” Quoting “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — “And though she be but little, she is fierce” — the event recognize the often overlooked female characters of the canon. Sixteen of Shakespeare’s plays were represented, including […]
Town hall forum breaks into small, focused sessions
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — At a second town hall meeting on equity and inclusion on May 3, roughly one month after community members stressed that the South Orange-Maplewood School District’s curriculum should be changed to prevent racially insensitive incidents from occurring, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction informed parents that teachers […]