All Highlights Tagged 'School' (38)

By Maya Chung, Staff Writer

From the living room to the patio Friday evening, Evan Walter’s house in Maplewood was filled with family and friends who wanted to commend him on his accomplishments.

Walter was chosen for the 2012 Youth USA Worlds Ultimate Team in…

The South Orange-Maplewood school district released a statement June 19 on the recent controversy over the Friday Night Live, a Columbia High School sketch comedy club, annual performance that the district considered offensive. The following statement was signed by Superintendent of Schools Brian Osborne and CHS Principal Lovie Lilly.

To the CHS Community:

As you may know, some public debate arose in response to the district’s decision to…

BoSE requests school officials decrease hike to 2%

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

Employee salaries and benefits account for more than half of a $114.9 million school budget that raises taxes by 2 percent.

The district will need to raise $105,284, 078 million through taxation to support the spending plan, budget records showed.

How this impacts…

Achieve raises funds for auditorium renovation and gives adults insight on CHS

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

Walking through the hallways of Columbia High School on Saturday gave Albert Appough a feeling of…

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

An enrollment “bubble” working its way through the elementary schools will require the Board of Education to spend an estimated $2.9 million to add six to seven classrooms at Maplewood Middle School.

The roughly 11-month job, providing an extra 12,300-square-feet of space, is scheduled to start in September, said district spokeswoman Suzanne Turner in an email explaining the…

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

Columbia High School teachers considered time spent at the copy machine as time wasted.

Sometimes the machines have mechanical problems, other times there are lines of people waiting to use them.

“So much of the teacher’s day is spent…

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

Public works departments in Maplewood and South Orange continued this week to remove debris left over from the recent snowstorm as both towns tallied  cleanup costs.

South Orange has had crews on the roads seven days a week, 14 hours a day, village President Alex Torpey said in a phone interview Nov. 7.

He said the town is hoping to have everything picked up by Saturday.There has been no word yet…

Second attempt to acquire Chyzowych fails

By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer

South Orange informed Maplewood that there is no interest in selling Chyzowych Field to the township, officials said.

The two towns had preliminary talks about the 8.7-acre field that South Orange owns but is located in Maplewood off of West Parker Avenue.

Maplewood Mayor Vic De Luca said Friday that…

Everything is “status quo,” a spokesperson for the South Orange-Maplewood school district said today about the “power surge” Sept. 23 that shut down Columbia High School’s B-wing, resulting in a change of class schedules for that day.

District officials said the high…

Two arrests made at Friday night game

Extra police will be at Columbia’s home football game Sept. 23 against East Side as officials adjust their security measures after their first experience with nighttime football last…

“Servers back up. Email, data systems functional. CHS full day on full power. Looking forward to being in SOMSD classrooms this morning!”

This is the message Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian Osborne posted on Twitter, a social-networking site, in the early morning Sept. 14, just two days…

By Christina Hernandez, Managing Editor

There was a “calmness” on Sept. 11, 2001, the retired Columbia High School teacher, Carol Petrallia, recalled late last month sitting in the high school courtyard. 

It was an ordinary day in weather, activity and sound, she…

Overall 'encouraging' results for SOMa district

By Christina Hernandez, Managing Editor

While results of the state’s 2010-2011 High School Proficiency Assessment, or HSPA, were “encouraging,” school officials said Monday, the…

The legal case of former Columbia High School Principal Renee Pollack is still not over, with a decision pending on how much the improperly fired administrator is owed in back pay and damages.

Allison E. Kobus, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Education, said Aug. 17 that her office…

By Christina Hernandez, Managing Editor

Mohamed Sidibay became a child soldier at 3 years old while living in Sierra…

By Christina Hernandez, Managing Editor

Dr. Megan Coffee and Lois Whitman share a common goal: helping others in need.

Their dedication to volunteering — near and far — have earned them a place in the Columbia High School Hall of Fame, which was first established in 1985 by then student…

By Christina Hernandez, Managing Editor

“How can you approve this attractive nuisance!” yelled a Maplewood woman from a far-back pew in the Township Committee room in Town Hall on May 16, mixing irony with ire.

The outburst came just moments before the members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment voted 5-2 to allow a 7-Eleven at the Shell gas station on the corner of Parker Avenue and Valley Street — across from Columbia High School.

“This is a facts decision the…

A Maplewood Board of Adjustment hearing on the proposed 7-Eleven on Valley Street, near Columbia High School, was postponed until May 2.

Ali Enterprises LLC, the developer seeking to locate the convenience store at the Shell Gas station, was scheduled to appear April 4. But a traffic engineer…

On March 30, the Board of School Estimate approved the schools portion of the tax levy to total $103,218,671 to support the South Orange-Maplewood 2011-2012 schools spending plan.

Next year's tax levy represents a 1.89 percent, or $1,917,244, increase from the 2010-2011 school year, which is under the mandated 2 percent cap imposed by Gov. Chris Christie last year.

The eight-member board made up of elected municipal officials from both towns voted on two separate resolutions in…