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MAPLEWOOD, NJ - The following letter to the community from Maplewood Chief of Police Jim DeVaul has been submitted for publication. Chief DeVaul not only address the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police, but continues on to address past issues in Maplewood and the current goals and objectives to address and correct the past issues. They are in effect and the ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Maplewood Library has released its multi-phase plan for restoring patron services. The phases will be implemented with the health and safety of the public and staff as top priorities.

Moving from one phase to the next is dependent on local and state assessment of risk. Under an Executive Order by Governor Murphy, libraries are to remain closed to the public until at ...

EVANSTON, ILL. — National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced today more than 3,300 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution.

Locally, Ryanne M.

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A house fire in the early hours of this morning in took several hours to get under control and resulted in at least two injuries. 

The Second Alarm fire on Essex Avenue started at about 3:20 a.m. It “was dispatched as a porch fire with occupant inside,” according to Rob Munson, an administrator of the Facebook group North Jersey Fire News, on a ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Village Board of Trustees unanimously approved moving forward with their plan for possible layoffs, demotions, and furloughs for those municipal unions who did not agree to the equivalent of a 2 percent pay freeze for the 2020 and 2021 budgets during a special board meeting yesterday. Memorandums of understanding were adopted with those unions who did agree ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange Maplewood School District Board of Education, Superintendent Ronald Taylor, and the Administration have issued the following message, their reflection on the social justice crisis sweeping across our country:

“In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

We as ...

EMERGENCY FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENT TO HELP THOSE IMPACTED BY CORONAVIRUS

Event is Thursday, June 4th at Essex County Codey Arena in West Orange

Essex County, NJ – One thousand boxes of food will be distributed Thursday, June 4that Essex County Codey Arena in West Orange to help families negatively impacted by the Coronavirus. The program is meant to ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As the weekend was gripped with protests locally, in Newark and New York, and across the country, someone decided to protest visually and illegally in downtown South Orange.

Sometime late Saturday evening to Sunday morning, a person or persons tagged the overpass on Third Street close to the corner of Sloan Street with spray paint. The comments included ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As protests and riots gripped many cities around the country this week, dozens of protestors laid down on South Orange Avenue for eight minutes to mark how long Police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee to George Floyd’s neck, killing him. To allow for coronavirus restrictions, the protest did not have much pre-protest publicity, limited people ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ - The following is a statement from Mayor Frank McGehee:

I am upset
I am sad
I am angry
I am frustrated
I am tired and I am done.

This is how I feel about the recent events that have happened to my fellow brothers and sisters. I was sick watching George Floyd die at the hands of people who took an oath to “serve and protect”.   I ...