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Where Creativity and Community Come Together by Cheryl Silver
Where might you find a handmade tie, a wooden cutting board and a hand-beaded necklace that, at first glance, looks like flags, but, upon...
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- Nov 30, 2018
- 4 min
Not Just Another Toy Story by Donny Levit
Karen Weiland is seated at a spotless conference table. On the wall behind her, geometric shapes bursting with color form a series of...
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- Nov 30, 2018
- 3 min
Home-Baked Holiday by Karen Tedesco
Like a pair of woolly mittens on a cold day, sweet treats go hand in hand with the holidays. Whether or not your family traditions...
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- Nov 27, 2018
- 4 min
Some Superheroes Wear a Vest by Adrianna Donat
Jethro the Seeing Eye puppy was frightened of trains. It was almost impossible for his puppy raiser to keep him from balking and whining...
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- Nov 27, 2018
- 5 min
What Is…the Experience of a Lifetime? By Keli Tianga
Though Daniel Oxman doesn’t recall not knowing about Jeopardy – he remembers it being on at friends' homes, or his grandmother’s house –...
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- Oct 16, 2018
- 5 min
Inconceivable: Maplewood family heals with community
When life takes an inconceivable turn, recovery and healing seem out of reach. For Felice Ecker and her son, Hank Ramaikas, grieving the...
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- Oct 15, 2018
- 4 min
Laughing at Us and With Us: Graphic novel gently spoofs the liberal elite, by Elaine Durbach
Chatting with Elly Lonon over coffee and fresh-baked scones - if you didn’t know any better - you might expect her new book to be...
ellencdonker
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
The Maplewood Chamber of Commerce becomes a modern force by Rick Gilman
It is probably an understatement to say that the act of "doing business" has changed over the past dozen years. Driven by new technology,...
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- Oct 10, 2018
- 3 min
Kitchen Therapy: Nourish Body and Mind with the Simple Act of Making Soup by Karen Tedesco
I want to make a case for cooking. In some ways, cooking is like exercising. We know we should muster the discipline to do it more often,...
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- Oct 9, 2018
- 5 min
YouthNet Ten Years Later by Malia Rulon Herman
The town library was being overrun by teenagers, streaming across the street from Maplewood Middle School in search of activity after...
ellencdonker
- Oct 9, 2018
- 3 min
A Proven Partnership
The women at Studio 509 – Guada Bas, Holly Benge and Bethany Pettigrew – have good instincts for opportunity. As owners of a successful...
ellencdonker
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
STRIKING OPPORTUNITY FOR JESPY BOWLER by Ellen Donker
Jane Clark chosen for Special Olympics World Games For the past five years, bowling has been a fun activity on Fridays for Jane Clark. A...
ellencdonker
- Aug 10, 2018
- 5 min
KICKING IT FORWARD by Donny Levit
On a bucolic, radiant weekend morning in June, a group of players haltingly steers its soccer balls across a swath of green grass in...
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- Aug 10, 2018
- 5 min
FROM SCHOOL HOUSE TO HIGH SCHOOL by Adrianna Donat
If you have a student at Columbia High School, you will likely ask why there is an enormous flagpole in the middle of the school’s...
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- Aug 9, 2018
- 4 min
WALKING TO A NEW BEAT by Ellen Donker
It’s Friday evening and Starbucks is abuzz with the usual activity of a coffee shop. Patrons order drinks, people hover in conversation,...
ellencdonker
- Jul 27, 2018
- 5 min
UNRAVELING A DNA MYSTERY by Donny Levit
How a genetics test helped to grow a Maplewood-South Orange family tree. On a late Friday afternoon in May, South Orange resident Patty...
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- Jul 27, 2018
- 5 min
NEW SIGHT FOR THE BLIND by Ellen Donker
Local ophthalmologist gives back to the country that gave him his start. Dr. Bernard Spier, a Maplewood resident and ophthalmologist with...
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- Jul 27, 2018
- 5 min
HOME AWAY by Malia Rulon Herman
How some local families are living the dream both here and afar. At home in Asbury Park Meg and Rich Whalen wanted to vacation at a beach...
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