The new school year started last week for the 7,228 students in the South Orange-Maplewood School District. The school year began, Thursday, Sept. 5, with Columbia High School Principal Frank Sanchez back on campus after he was reinstated to his position over the summer following a tumultuous six months that saw him arrested on assault […]
Kevin Gilbert has done all kinds of jobs within a school system. The new acting superintendent of schools in South Orange Maplewood has been in administration for many years but he has also taught, coached, been a substitute bus driver, operated the floor waxing machine and run the cash register in the cafeteria lunch line. […]
A group of teenagers accidentally commit a crime. Friendships fracture and relationships go awry as they try to cover their tracks. The dark comedy, “DNA,” is being presented by Columbia High School (CHS)’s Parnassian Society and performed at the Black Box Theater this November. It’s the first production directed by James Bale Dyer, an English […]
MAPLEWOOD — Therapy dogs, a new darkroom, cooking classes, and the next phase of an environmental project, are just a few of the programs that have been awarded funding through the Achieve Foundation’s Fall 2023 Educator Grant Awards. In total, checks were delivered across the District’s schools to fund 22 different projects this fall. “These […]
New Behavioral Threat Assessment Teams that will investigate students if there is a concern they might pose a risk to others was one of the topics covered during a South Orange Maplewood School District online forum on school safety and security. The forum was on Thursday, Sept. 21, and included Ronald Taylor, superintendent of the […]