Its producer, Scott Weinstein, reflects on how much has changed, and what’s stayed the same If the holidays in New York possess a certain...

Scott Anthony and Rebecca Turner’s Maplewood home is audio magic Musician. Recording artist. Songwriter. Audio engineer. Yoga instructor....

I’m looking to the young adults this year When we moved into our house more than 20 years ago, the former owner told us it was a great...

Peeking behind the Instagram curtain If you type my name into Instagram, what you’ll be presented with are many little colorful squares...

You can take the editor out of Maplewood.... This story spotlights Grace Mirabella, a woman who graduated from Columbia High School and...

A delicious treat – with just six ingredients! If you don’t work in the food space, you may not be aware that our community is chock full...

A life in the business at the Garubo Salon In mid-August a new awning went up outside the Anthony Garubo Salon in Maplewood Village....

A duo helps women glow, grow and build community Women like to gather. Not in the traditional hunter-gatherer paradigm, but gather...

A lawyer veers into fiction and fierceness Helen Wan was a bit late for coffee at the Able Baker, but she had a good reason: The trailer...

A Maplewood resident changes course In the late 1980s when DeMetha Hukins Simmonds was a college student trying to plan out her career,...

It sometimes meanders I wrote my first poem in third grade. It was a silly piece about hiccupping and picking up my room and I felt both...

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend,” said Groucho Marx. “Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Remember books? Quaint...

The debut of CHS’s new resource center, the Counseling Annex. In September 2021, Columbia High School students returned to the school...

One student’s effort to save the environment in SOMA – and the world. We may not be able to live without computers. But how long will...

Building cultural awareness, community, and confidence through an African American art form Set back from the traffic on Boyden Avenue,...

These stuffed shells are packed with flavor There’s nothing quite like the distinct feeling of “back to school.” Even as an adult I can...

Melanie Conklin revisits the wonder years When South Orange author Melanie Conklin sits down to write, she does so surrounded by post-it...

Kean University opens its doors to high schoolers It is a warm morning in late June and Jason Lester, a tall man with a calm, coach-like...

Not so fast It was time. Actually it’s been time to renovate our basement since we moved in, but other above-ground projects took...

Handling skin cancer without the panic Soon after moving to New Orleans in the 1990s, I began an almost daily ritual of running through...