WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Little Free Pantry that Soham Bhatnagar spent a few months building earlier this year was installed and stocked with food on May 27 on Washington Street, right outside the West Orange Police Department substation. The West Orange High School junior enlisted the help of Maplewoodshop owner and woodworker Mike Schloff […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Past and present connected on the baseball field at West Orange High School May 21 and 22 as the Mountaineers recognized alumni from the Mountain High School Rams and West Orange High School Cowboys. “Throwback Weekend” featured two evenings of Mountaineer baseball, with players wearing the jerseys of the Mountain High […]
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 […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Youth leaders from around New Jersey, including two from West Orange, held a press conference on May 20 calling on state lawmakers to pass the New Jersey Green Amendment and add it to the state constitution. The amendment would add environmental rights to the constitution and protect rights to clean air, […]
CALDWELL, NJ — Lesley Chung was finishing up her paper for Joanne Jasmine’s global studies and leadership class in the hospital after giving birth to her daughter. She had originally told her Caldwell University professor that she would not need an extension, but Jasmine, a mother of two, assured her that yes, “you’ll need that […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School music director William Farley has received his doctorate degree in worship studies, specifically sacred music, from Liberty University, located in Lynchburg, Va. He received his bachelor’s degree from Westminster Choir College, currently housed in Lawrenceville, and master’s degree at Montclair State University, both in music education. Farley […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School senior and AP Art student Cristal Perez was awarded second place in the mixed media category at the annual Congressional Art Competition during a virtual ceremony on May 5. U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who represents the 10th Congressional District, congratulated Perez on her accomplishment. In describing […]
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ — A stellar group of 18 individuals has been selected as the NJSIAA Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame’s class of 2021. All inductees were selected by a statewide committee of journalists and both active and retired school administrators. “What always amazes me about our annual Hall of Fame process is that there never seems […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School senior Royson Folas has accepted an appointment to West Point Military Academy. “I got the call from the office of Rep. Mikie Sherrill while I was warming up for a tennis match on April 19, and needless to say I was absolutely ecstatic — the admissions process […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Wolfgang Scheitinger, a 2019 graduate of West Orange High School, has been selected to have his original composition “flutters and murmurs of a curious heart and mind” premiered on May 7 at the 2021 National Society of Composers Virtual Conference. Scheitinger’s composition was one of six selected from a field of […]