MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — For Amy Popp, a media specialist at Tuscan Elementary School, receiving a fellowship from the Achieve Foundation in March has special significance. She is one of five educators who were awarded Michelle T. Riecke Fellowships totaling $5,073 to pursue professional development programs this summer. Popp will attend the week-long […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Former East Orange Mayor Robert L. Bowser died Saturday, April 2. He was 86 years old. Bowser held the distinction of being the first black person in East Orange’s history to have been elected to serve a third term as mayor. He served four terms in total, from 1998 to 2014, for […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Women’s Club of Glen Ridge hosted its annual Favorite Doll Tea on Sunday afternoon, March 20. According to Asha Gormandy Lee, the chairperson of the club’s Ways and Means Committee, 177 tickets were sold to the event, which is in its 11th year. Attendance was purposely lower than in previous […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood School District broke ground on another portion of the Long Range Facilities Plan at South Mountain Elementary School on March 22, starting the 18-month process to build nine new classrooms, a courtyard and a revamped playground. The fifth project to get off the ground, South Mountain’s expansion is […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Ron Negra was cleaning out a closet at his mother’s house in Lacey Township in 2019 when he found a sealed box filled with decades-old letters from people located all around the country. They were responses to letters his mother, Agnes Negra, had written during World War II to families of soldiers, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Board of Education was presented with the preliminary 2022-2023 budget at a special meeting on March 24, starting the annual budget-approval process for next school year. According to new interim Superintendent Lauren Schoen at her first meeting as the temporary head of the district, the district is expecting […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Public Library’s art section just got a lot bigger, after a donation of more than 500 books from artist Nell Irvin Painter. The donation contains an array of books about black artists, art history and different art movements. A writer and artist who is a history professor emerita […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce recognized several local businesses, organizations and individuals at its awards banquet on March 4 at the Chandelier in Belleville. The SECC presented the Business of the Year Award to Dr. Sean Flynn of Step by Step Pediatrics in Bloomfield, the Excellence in Education Award to […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Someday, former Bloomfield High School students will recall teacher and coach Lenore Imhof, saying that they were taught by her or perhaps competed on her mock trial or swim team. Recollections will be said for other educators in the district, of course, but today, March 31, 2022, is the day that Imhof […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange–Maplewood Board of Education reached an agreement in principle with the South Orange–Maplewood Education Association, the teachers union, early Friday morning, March 25, for a contract that runs from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024. “After 14 hours of negotiations, the South Orange–Maplewood Board of Education […]