WEST ORANGE, NJ — Students at Roosevelt Middle School held an organized protest on March 14 in honor of the students and staff that lost their lives in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Students lined Gilbert Place and stood in silence for 17 minutes, one minute for each student or staff member killed. “A month […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School students walked out of their classrooms on the morning of March 14 to stand in solidarity with high schools around the country as they protested gun violence in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Almost all of the […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Liberty Middle School held a 17-minute walkout on March 14 in memory of the 17 students and teachers killed in the Parkland, Fla., shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14. Teachers and staff felt the walkout was powerful for those who participated. The student-led safety team that was […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — On March 14, students and faculty at Thomas Edison Central Sixth Middle School held a peace march to honor the victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which had occurred exactly one month prior. Students held up heart signs to show their love and […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — One by one, students at West Orange High School read the names of the students and faculty members who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 in Parkland, Fla. They shared about each student, their hopes and dreams that would not be fulfilled. And they said: Remember […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino addressed recent threats made to schools in Essex County on Feb. 27, in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. He also spoke about the spike in threats that come after an incident like the one in Florida. According […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — South Orange Village President Sheena Collum and Maplewood Mayor Victor DeLuca announced Feb. 21 that the joint Facebook fundraiser between the two communities to support Everytown for Gun Safety closed after just 50 hours with $30,660 in donations from 645 individual donors. “We never thought we would even come […]
WESTFIELD, NJ — Maplewood and South Orange residents participated in a gun safety rally in front of U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance’s office in Westfield on Friday, Feb. 23.
WEST ORANGE, NJ — As news broke of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 were murdered and more than a dozen more injured Wednesday, Feb. 14, parents and guardians across the country once again were left feeling scared for their own children’s safety. West Orange was no exception. As such, West Orange […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Columbia High School community was already on edge by the time news broke of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 were murdered and more than a dozen more were injured Feb. 14. Earlier that morning, Maplewood police were called to CHS in response to a threatening message spray-painted […]