GLEN RIDGE, NJ — In a momentous reassertion of tradition before family and friends, Glen Ridge High School graduated 136 seniors at Hurrell Field on Thursday evening, June 17. GRHS students in the Class of 2021 were grateful and relieved to have an in-person commencement; the joyous atmosphere was acknowledged by speakers during the ceremony. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — This school year at Glen Ridge High School looked a little different from previous years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it didn’t stop the staff of the literary magazine from doing their jobs. The 2021 issue of “In Between” was released last week, after months of the editors combing through […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — After a COVID-19–related hiatus, live theater is back at Glen Ridge High School. The Ridgewood Avenue School theater will once again have an audience in it when the high school drama club stages “Footloose,” the first production that they’ll be able to put on in person in more than a year […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Friends of the Glen Ridge Library will hold a drive-through shredding event on Saturday, June 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, in the Glen Ridge High School parking lot, 200 Ridgewood Ave. There is a suggested donation of $5 per box and all proceeds support Friends of […]
LITTLE FALLS, NJ — Continuing a beloved tradition in local high school sports, for the ninth consecutive year the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center honored student athletes from member schools of the Super Essex Conference in a celebration of the qualities that made Yogi Berra a national treasure. Recipients of the 2021 Investors Bank […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge residents and staff members in the Glen Ridge School District are protesting the elimination of Glen Ridge High School’s library media specialist due to cuts in the 2021-2022 budget. The budget was approved unanimously at the BOE’s April 26 meeting after a public hearing; no members of the public […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Kiwanis Club and Glen Ridge High School Key Club will hold the Joseph T. Connolly Collection Drive, a semiannual, townwide clothing and household goods drive, on Saturday, April 24, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the GRHS parking lot, 200 Ridgewood Ave. Items collected will be donated […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The COVID-19 pandemic sent students home from school approximately one year ago, moving learning from classrooms to living rooms. School still doesn’t look the same as it did pre-pandemic, even though students in Glen Ridge are spending some time back in their school buildings for hybrid learning. Virtual and hybrid learning […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Joseph T. Connolly Drive, a townwide, semiannual clothing and household goods collection drive sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Glen Ridge and Glen Ridge High School Key Club, will be Saturday, Nov. 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the high school parking lot, 200 Ridgewood Ave. in Glen […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The opening of Glen Ridge High School for in-person classes was delayed to late October because of HVAC upgrades amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, so the GRHS marching band has been using the school as “a big closet,” according to director Darren Gage. Their instruments and equipment are being stored in […]