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THE SNOWBALL EFFECT by Tia Swanson
Changing the world, one child at a time Lorraine Kerry Barnett grew up poor in the Central Ward of Newark during the dark period that...
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- Oct 1, 2021
- 5 min
A BET LAUNCHES A CAREER by Ellen Donker
Now Sally Reaves makes history Sally Reaves is not one to turn down a challenge. Her friend Paulette, a corrections officer, found that...
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
TAKING ART – AND COMMUNITY – VIRTUAL By Tia Swanson
The Newark Museum of Art not only survived the pandemic, it thrived As has become painfully apparent over the last several months, the...
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 5 min
PARENTS GO BACK TO SCHOOL By Malia Rulon Herman
New language program teaches more than just English For a parent in the South Orange-Maplewood School District who was born in the U.S....
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER By Adrianna Donat
How the SOMA Community Helped One Young Man Find His Wings Stanley Finlayson graduated from Columbia High School this past June. But on...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
A HOME FOR ALL SEASONS By Tia Swanson
While the pandemic raged, houses of faith reached out to their most vulnerable members In the months before the pandemic, Ben Hack, who...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
A YEAR OF HOME LOVE By Cassandra Ratkevich
Positive domestic outcomes of a time of pandemic The Year I Didn’t Go to School by Giselle Potter was once a favorite bedtime picture...
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- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
CHANNELING A LOVE FOR COOKING by Ellen Donker
Seth Boyden fourth grader hosts his own cooking show Jacob Case never expected to be sharing cooking videos on Facebook. After all, he’s...
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- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
QUARATINE DOG by Sara Courtney
Down and out with man's best friend So you got a dog. Not just any dog. A quarantine dog. A dog to shelter in place with. A dog to...
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- Nov 27, 2020
- 7 min
A GAMER'S PARADISE IN SOUTH ORANGE by Donny Levit
Chris Donnell’s basement “museum” chronicles decades of electronic gaming South Orange resident Chris Donnell is comfortably seated on...
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- Aug 14, 2020
- 6 min
PANDEMICS DON'T COME WITH BLUEPRINTS by Donny Levit
Village President Sheena Collum and Mayor Frank McGehee forge a powerful leadership bond When President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his...
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- Aug 14, 2020
- 6 min
MARK MURPHY'S MUSIC SCHOOL! LIVE! FROM THE BASEMENT! by Sara Courtney
The shutdown made them bored. The music kept them connected. Just a few months ago, before masks and hand sanitizer and the words “remote...
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