WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School varsity cheerleaders took top honors at the New Jersey Cheerleading and Dance Association state championship in the Small Varsity Non-Tumbling Division on March 5. The annual event was held at the Sun Bank Arena in Trenton. This is the second year in a row the team […]
Get drawn into international intrigue with ‘The Travelers’
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Chris Pavone first got the idea for his new novel “The Travelers,” while working a summer job at an international advertising agency during the late 1980s, where the future best-selling author was surrounded by employees of various countries who spoke multiple languages, each often jetting off to some foreign locale to handhold […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Eleven of Golda Och Academy’s 10th-graders had the chance to reunite with the exchange students from the Colegio Israelita de Mexico ORT school in Mexico City last month as part of the GoAbroad Exchange Program. For the second consecutive year, the two schools have been paired to participate in a cultural […]
Residents, township officials discuss ‘sanctuary,’ racial diversity, police statistics and more
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Mayor Robert Parisi told those gathered for the West Orange Human Relations Commission’s Feb. 22 “We All Belong” town hall meeting that it would be unnecessary to declare the township a sanctuary city because undocumented immigrants in the township currently do not risk being singled out by local law enforcement. Though […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — As part of Tuscan School’s Read Across America Week celebration, “The Cat in the Hat” visited with students in kindergarten through grade two on Feb. 27. Tuscan School was selected to receive a visit from “The Cat” by the New Jersey Education Association. Students were thrilled to meet one of their favorite […]
Council discusses affordable housing needs in West Orange
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The township is currently in mediation with Fair Share Housing Center and Garden Homes in an attempt to reach settlements on two issues related to affordable housing — the exact number of units West Orange will be obligated to construct and how many of those units will come from Garden Homes’ […]
Proponents, opponents sound off on recent BSA ruling
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The 9-year-old transgender boy who was asked to leave his Secaucus Cub Scout pack last year due to his gender identity is now a member of Maplewood’s Pack 20, following the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to enact a policy allowing transgender boys to join. Joe Maldonado became the first openly transgender […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — This winter season, Maplewood Recreation and Cultural Affairs had more than 250 participants in its Ski and Snowboard Club. The group took five action-packed trips to Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, N.J. “Thank you to all of our student participants, awesome chaperones and the parents that made it all happen!” recreation Director […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Nikhil Badlani Foundation and the West Orange Scholarship Fund have partnered to present a scholarship fundraising challenge to benefit the West Orange High School Class of 2017, of which Nikhil would have been a member had he not been killed by a distracted driver in 2011. As always, the Nikhil […]
Residents concerned over disturbances from construction
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood is still working to bounce back from the six-alarm fire that tore through the Avalon Apartments construction site on Feb. 4, destroying approximately one-half to two-thirds of the site. The fire, which took approximately four hours and 120 firefighters to extinguish, destroyed the work already done on phases 2 and 3 […]