The Appalachian Trail stamp series includes one location in Monroe, NY, and another in Vernon, NJ, just over the border. ( Image courtesy the United States Postal Service) Post office to launch Appalachian Trail stamp series The United States Postal Service recently released its new stamps for 2025, and among the list is a set of 15 stamps commemorating... Home 16 Dec 2024 | 03:53
The ABCs of bus stop safety Designed with safety at the forefront, school buses are too heavy to roll over, too bright to miss and 70 times safer than... Back to School 16 Aug 2024 | 11:44
The Class of 2024 enters the commencement ceremony at Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta on June 3. Provided photo Pay up or miss commencement At the end of each school year, schools are left with missing materials, unpaid lunch accounts and late library book fees.... Local News 08 Jun 2024 | 09:19
Counselors Mia and Michael Harrison, right, give Cesar and Kenia Gomez and their daughter Kacey, 5, a tour of the Bubbling Springs Day Camp in West Milford. Kacey is signed up for five of the seven weekly sessions this summer. The camp held an open house Saturday, June 1. (Photos by Kathy Shwiff) Summer day camps juggle high costs, low enrollment As summer begins, many parents turn to day camps operated by their municipality’s Parks and Recreation Department for activities... Home 06 Jun 2024 | 10:55
‘Too stressful’: why some students are saying no thanks to standardized tests As students across the tristate region sharpened pencils - or, increasingly, fired up computers - in preparation for multiple... Local News 02 May 2024 | 11:23
Mabel Roy (left) and Linda Gallup marching in New Jersey protesting the separation of immigrant children from their parents. “Can’t do the walking that much anymore like I was,” Roy said. “So I go the postcard route or letter to the editor route.” Surprise! You wrote a letter to the newspaper Between Jan. 2 and Jan. 5, Straus News received nine very similar letters to the editor, warning against the dangers of a... Local News 22 Jan 2024 | 01:56
Chester Kneeland Gale Chester Kneeland Gale, age 81, passed away on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at the VA New Jersey Health Care System in East Orange.... Obituaries 27 May 2021 | 03:25
Ones apon a time... Found this poem lying around on a post-it, which Juno, age 4, had dictated to Kai, age 7. I feel it sums up a certain kind... Letters to the Editor 20 Apr 2020 | 11:05
Electrician admits to placing hidden camera in Chester woman’s bathroom Joseph Krenicky, 48, of Glenwood, N.J., pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree unlawful surveillance before Orange County... Police & Fire 30 Aug 2019 | 12:19
[Billy Kerwien] ( Photo courtesy Misericordia Athletics) Kerwien strong at the plate for Misericordia Billy Kerwien, a graduate of High Point High School was a junior infielder for the Misericordia University (Dallas, Pa.)... Sports 19 Aug 2019 | 11:59
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