SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Following the Feb. 22 Board of Education meeting in which the business administrator announced proposed cuts to the school district and a tax increase, the public schools budget has remained a heated topic of discussion, bringing out a crowd to the March 2 Board of Education budget workshop. Superintendent […]
With lawsuit filed against CHS coaches, many express their support of, anger at baseball teachers
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — All four of Columbia High School’s baseball coaches were rehired by the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education for the upcoming 2016 season during the Feb. 22 board meeting, days after a former player filed a lawsuit in Essex County Civil Court alleging that he was repeatedly bullied by the […]
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Yet again, a Superior Court judge has rejected a bid from a former Maplewood teacher to dismiss charges that she sexually assaulted six male students. Superior Court Judge Michael L. Ravin on Feb. 29 denied a motion from Nicole Dufault to reconsider his Dec. 18, 2015, ruling that denied […]