Updated February 23: Schools will be closed again on Tuesday, February 24, according to South Orange-Maplewood School District Communications Director Eshaya Draper. From the South Orange-Maplewood School District website: Due …

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad explained that the 16-time Oscar-nominated film “serves as context for what we talk about today as Black joy. Even in the midst of terrible suffering and oppression, Black people in those days, in those moments of release, and ecstasy, and joy, and music, were able to be human beings in the fullest sense of the world.”

Essex County’s Code Blue procedures are being enacted through Wednesday, February 25 at 9 a.m. The declaration is for overnight hours from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. and all day on Monday, February 23.

Mayor Sheena Collum: “PSE&G has more than 3,000 field workers deployed and has requested hundreds of additional mutual aid crews. Even so, they are already signaling that this could be a multi-day restoration event.”

From Maplewood Township: Good evening, Maplewood. As you may have seen in this afternoon’s news, tomorrow’s winter storm has prompted Governor Mikie Sherrill to declare a state of emergency in …

From the South Orange Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs: You’re warmly invited to the opening night of Female Hysteria—an exhibition that is bold, unapologetic, and deeply resonant. Thursday, Feb. …