From The South Mountain YMCA
The South Mountain YMCA Board of Managers is led by dedicated community volunteers who contribute their expertise, time, talent, and resources to help ensure our Y is in a position to help make meaningful, lasting impacts on our kids, families and community. We know that lasting personal and social change comes about when we all work
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Leaving the City: 5 Housing Trends to Watch, From Realtor Victoria Carter
From Victoria Carter The migration from the city to the suburbs that took on greater urgency during the pandemic looks set to continue in 2021.…

Assemblywoman Jasey’s Statement on School Reopenings Amid Pandemic Recovery
The following is from New Jersey Assemblywoman Mila Jasey: Assemblywoman Mila Jasey (D-Essex, Morris), vice-chair of the Assembly Education Committee and former member of the…

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…

SOPAC Livestream Will Make You ‘Dizzy’ With Jazz Greats, February 25
“Oh man, they are so good, it’s just ridiculous.” So said Aretha Franklin when asked about the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, a quintet of direct descendants…

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 Theater – Shuttered by Pandemic – a Second Act
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UPDATE: South Orange-Maplewood Board of Ed Sues Teachers Union, Seeks to Force Educators to Return to Classrooms ‘Immediately’
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