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06/24/2026

Columbia High School held its 139th commencement exercises last week at Richard J. Codey Arena in West Orange. The ceremony began with the Columbia High School band playing “Music for the Royal Fir…

06/24/2026

Memorial Park in Maplewood hosted a Juneteenth celebration on Friday, June 19. The event included, pictured upper left, MeriKara, a jazz fusion vocalist whose work is deeply rooted in Afro-diaspori…

06/24/2026

About 1,000 people turned out on Friday, June 19, for a World Cup Soccer Watch Party at Meadowland Park outside the Baird. The crowd saw the United States team defeat Australia 2 to 0 to advance to…

06/20/2026

The Achieve Foundation of South Orange and Maplewood celebrated their volunteers at the Achieve Volunteer Tutor Appreciation Reception earlier this month. “Our volunteers are the foundation of this…

06/10/2026

A portion of South Mountain Reservation was closed last week for a child abduction simulation exercise designed to test and strengthen the response and coordination of law enforcement personnel to …

06/10/2026

Lavender Graduation was deeply moving, as LGBTQIA+ students prepared to enter the next chapter of their lives. The celebration was at Columbia High School Auditorium, followed by a party at The Woo…

06/10/2026

06/03/2026

Columbia High School’s all-student, student-run music festival Beatfest returned to Ritzer Field last week. “This is a great opportunity for our students to actually run a concert,” sai…

06/02/2026

MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE — The Columbia High School Boys Open Varsity Ultimate team has earned an invitation to compete at the eighth Annual High School National Invite (HSNI), hosted by Ultiworld an…

05/27/2026

Three candidates. Two seats. Mayor Vic De Luca, SOMA Bike Bus founder Martin Ceperley, and Planning Board and Hilton Neighborhood Association member John T. Sullivan gathered at DeHart Community Ce…