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...

Karen Weiland is seated at a spotless conference table. On the wall behind her, geometric shapes bursting with color form a series of...

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...

Jethro the Seeing Eye puppy was frightened of trains. It was almost impossible for his puppy raiser to keep him from balking and whining...

Though Daniel Oxman doesn’t recall not knowing about Jeopardy – he remembers it being on at friends' homes, or his grandmother’s house –...

When life takes an inconceivable turn, recovery and healing seem out of reach. For Felice Ecker and her son, Hank Ramaikas, grieving the...

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...

It is probably an understatement to say that the act of "doing business" has changed over the past dozen years. Driven by new technology,...

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,...

The town library was being overrun by teenagers, streaming across the street from Maplewood Middle School in search of activity after...

The women at Studio 509 – Guada Bas, Holly Benge and Bethany Pettigrew – have good instincts for opportunity. As owners of a successful...

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...

On a bucolic, radiant weekend morning in June, a group of players haltingly steers its soccer balls across a swath of green grass in...

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...

It’s Friday evening and Starbucks is abuzz with the usual activity of a coffee shop. Patrons order drinks, people hover in conversation,...

How a genetics test helped to grow a Maplewood-South Orange family tree. On a late Friday afternoon in May, South Orange resident Patty...

Local ophthalmologist gives back to the country that gave him his start. Dr. Bernard Spier, a Maplewood resident and ophthalmologist with...

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...