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STORIES
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ellencdonker
Oct 10, 20183 min read
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,...


ellencdonker
Oct 9, 20185 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20185 min read
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...


ellencdonker
Aug 10, 20185 min read
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...


ellencdonker
Aug 9, 20184 min read
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, 20185 min read
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...


ellencdonker
Jul 27, 20185 min read
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...


ellencdonker
Jul 27, 20185 min read
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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