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BRINGING BACK A TRADITION TO THE HOLIDAY TABLE by Olivia Mack McCool
Homemade dinner rolls: They’re easier to make than you think. Something I love about holiday cooking and baking is the recipe that you’re...
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ellencdonker
- Nov 24, 2022
- 7 min
FROM SNL'S "WEEKEND UPDATE"...WITH A LITTLE HOLIDAY CHEER by Sara Courtney
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...
ellencdonker
- Nov 24, 2022
- 6 min
TURNING A LIFE OF MUSIC INTO A STORYBOOK by Donny Levit
Scott Anthony and Rebecca Turner’s Maplewood home is audio magic Musician. Recording artist. Songwriter. Audio engineer. Yoga instructor....
ellencdonker
- Nov 24, 2022
- 3 min
A CELEBRATION TRANSITION by Ellen Donker
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...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
MOM COMPARISON: THE NEXT GENERATION by Olivia Mack McCool
Peeking behind the Instagram curtain If you type my name into Instagram, what you’ll be presented with are many little colorful squares...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 5 min
A HOMETOWN GIRL REVOLUTIONIZES WHAT'S IN VOGUE by Adrianna Donat
You can take the editor out of Maplewood.... This story spotlights Grace Mirabella, a woman who graduated from Columbia High School and...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
EMMA LAPERREQUE'S FLOURLESS WALNUT BROWNIES by Olivia Mack McCool
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...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 7 min
HERE, THERE AND BACK AGAIN by Tia Swanson
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....
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 6 min
CIRCLES OF SISTERHOOD by Tami Steckler
A duo helps women glow, grow and build community Women like to gather. Not in the traditional hunter-gatherer paradigm, but gather...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 5 min
THE AUTHOR TRACK by Tia Swanson
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...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 5 min
LOCAL ON A NEW LINE by Ellen Donker
A Maplewood resident changes course In the late 1980s when DeMetha Hukins Simmonds was a college student trying to plan out her career,...
ellencdonker
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
FOLLOWING THE PATH by Ellen Donker
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...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 3 min
BOOKS: A EULOGY by Robert Shaffron
“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...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
A HELPING HAND AT COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL by Cassandra Ratkevich
The debut of CHS’s new resource center, the Counseling Annex. In September 2021, Columbia High School students returned to the school...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 3 min
ELECTRONIC AFTERLIFE by Adrianna Donat
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...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 6 min
STEPPING WITH SETH BOYDEN STUDENTS by Tami Steckler
Building cultural awareness, community, and confidence through an African American art form Set back from the traffic on Boyden Avenue,...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 3 min
BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO THE DINNER TABLE BY Olivia Mack McCool
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...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 6 min
A LOCAL AUTHOR CHRONICLES MIDDLE GRADE By Sara Courtney
Melanie Conklin revisits the wonder years When South Orange author Melanie Conklin sits down to write, she does so surrounded by post-it...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
PUTTING THE COLLEGE IN COLLEGE PREP By Tia Swanson Photography by Julia Maloof Verderosa
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...
ellencdonker
- Aug 11, 2022
- 3 min
PARTING WITH THE PAST by Ellen Donker
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...
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