Since The Village Green launched this summer, it has quickly become a trusted source of journalistic coverage on the issues that matter to Maplewood, South Orange and environs.
In just a few months of operation, our readership has grown rapidly. In October alone, The Village Green logged an incredible 38,598 sessions, 23,540 unique users, and 60,516 page views – a large number for a hyperlocal news site, especially a new one.
We think we know why. As former Patch editors – and locals ourselves — we know what you want to read: news about schools, government, elections, crime and public safety, business, the arts, lifestyle, real estate, food, sports, events and more.
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Some journalistic highlights thus far include detailed and thoughtful coverage of the CHS teacher arrest, breaking the story of a Maplewood elected official’s view on marriage equality, reporting minute-by-minute live accounts of the high school lockdown, providing real-time election results and candidate coverage, and covering ongoing redevelopment conversations about the Maplewood Post Office, Marylawn of the Oranges site, Springfield Avenue parcels including Advance Auto, Irvington Avenue, South Orange Village Hall and more, much more.
We are grateful to our readers for supporting us, and we want to build on our success by expanding our coverage to deliver more news, and to dig deeper into issues that matter in our towns.
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