This story has been updated with a copy of the police report of the graffiti incident.

Rudy was a WWII veteran, a singer, author, and journalist who once interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt on a visit to Maplewood. He was an adoring husband, devoted father and doting grandparent.

CHS students placed a live lobster in a toilet; it died.

The following is a press release from the South Orange-Maplewood School District: MAPLEWOOD, N.J. – Officials from the South Orange and Maplewood School District and the Board of Education recognized …

From ESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO AND ESSEX COUNTY SHERIFF FONTOURA: List of Sites Available on NJ211.org or by Calling 2-1-1 Essex County, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. …

A Student Representative to the Board of Ed reported that lax enforcement “creates a dangerous environment where students are under the impression that they do not need to take regulations seriously on the whole.”