Collum: NJ Legislation Subjecting PILOTs to Prevailing Wages Would Hurt Affordable Housing

South Orange Village President Sheena Collum shared an update on a bill currently in the New Jersey State Assembly, A1571/1576, at the February 22 Board…

South Orange’s Congregation Beth El Creates Music Video for Virtual Purim

Congregation Beth El in South Orange created a music video this year for the holiday of Purim, which begins on Thursday evening. “Since we can’t…

South Orange & Maplewood Elected Officials Work to Help Schools Reopen, Within Legal Limits

Amid complaints from some local parents that they are not doing enough to help reopen South Orange-Maplewood public schools, elected officials from the two townships…

Statement From South Orange-Maplewood Schools Superintendent Taylor

The South Orange-Maplewood School District sent the following statement from Superintendent Ronald Taylor, which he read at the Feb. 22 Board of Education meeting: Update…

OPINION: SOMA Community Alliance for Education Announces Plan to Partner With Stakeholders to Help Reopen Schools and More

From the SOMA Community Alliance for Education: A new educational activism and volunteer group is on the horizon in South Orange Maplewood. SOMA Community Alliance…

Residents Hope to Give Maplewood Theatre — Shuttered by Pandemic — a Second Act

Dear readers, if you are seeing this box, you are reading one of the very few current articles behind our paywall. If you already have…

UPDATE: South Orange-Maplewood Board of Ed Sues Teachers Union, Seeks to Force Educators to Return to Classrooms ‘Immediately’