Health & Wellness

MAPLEWOOD, NJ __ The South Orange-Maplewood School District acknowledged a rise in Covid-19 cases but stopped short of reinstating a district-wide masking policy, instead urging students and staff to voluntarily choose to mask indoors and on buses.

Outbreaks at two elementary schools -- Clinton and South Mountain Big School -- have prompted the district to implement short-term masking, as ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ __ Students and staff at South Mountain Big School are again required to wear masks indoors and on the bus following an outbreak of Covid-19 in three classes.

The South Orange Department of Health is requiring the move, South Mountain Elementary Principal Kevin Mason wrote to families on Wednesday.

The mandate will be in effect through Wednesday May 18th, and then masks will ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ - Parents took the opportunity to bring up two main concerns during the South Orange/Maplewood Board of Education special meeting this week: A lack of communication and inconsistency in regard to COVID-19 and the removal of former second grade teacher Tamar Herman after she was accused of removing a second-grader’s hijab during class last fall.

Natalie Peretti, a South ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Maplewood experienced nearly double the number of COVID-19 cases in April than in March, said township Health Officer Candice Davenport at this week’s meeting of the Maplewood Township Committee.

Davenport said there were 232 COVID-19 cases in March compared to 438 in April. However, she said Maplewood’s number of people with COVID-19 vaccinations is ...

Babyganics is voluntarily recalling two lots of 20-ounce bottles of babyganics® 20oz chamomile verbena bubble bath, due to the presence of the bacterium Pluralibacter gergoviae, announced the company.

It was discovered, during internal testing, that two specific lot numbers of this product contained the bacterium.

Pluralibacter gergoviae does not usually cause healthy ...

Newark, NJ – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II, announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office will hold a Community Day tomorrow, Thursday, April 28, at Lincoln Park in Newark to spread the word about Operation Helping Hand. Operation Helping Hand is a diversion program that connects individuals suffering from opioid and other forms of addiction ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ – People taking advantage of New Jersey’s first day for the legal sale of recreational cannabis got up early on Thursday; they were waiting in line at 6:45 a.m. outside the TerreAscend Apothecarium cannabis shop on Springfield Avenue.

The Maplewood shop is one of 13 statewide that have been selling medicinal cannabis but are now also approved to sell marijuana ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - There have been many comments both pro and con the operations of WONDER Trucks appearing on SOMA Lounge basically having started on Monday, April 18th. Due to these comments, South Orange Trustee Bob Zuckerman invited Stephanie Brown and the Community to attend the monthly meeting of the Planning and Economic Development Committee. Zuckerman also invited Stephanie Brown, and ...

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - On Monday April 25, the South Orange Board of Trustees (BOT) will hold the second reading of a proposed ordinance to limit and regulate the use of leaf blowers.

A summary of the proposed ordinance can be found on the South Orange website and the full ordinance can be downloaded here. If approved, the ordinance will go into effect on May 1,  2022.

The public ...

MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Kimberley Mui Owies the Senior Director of Brand and Channel Marketing for TerrAscend attended Tuesday night’s meeting to discuss the four conditions set by the township, before approval consideration.

“Per April 5th’s township meeting we have remediated the four contingencies requested by the committee,” expressed Owies. She continued by ...