Mary Houghtaling visits the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with Maude Dahme, a Holocaust survivor. (Photo provided) Seeing students as ‘whole people’ Twenty-two years into her teaching career at Kittatinny Regional High School in Newton, Mary Houghtaling sees education as... Home 16 Jan 2025 | 09:42
The traffic light at Clinton Road and Route 23. Tales from the ‘most haunted road’ West Milford residents are no strangers to the stories that haunt Clinton Road. The desolate roughly 10-mile span that runs... Home 23 Oct 2024 | 04:56
Allan Samson of Byram Township with his book, ‘All That I’ve Learned While Answering the Call.’ (Photo by Rich Adamonis) Becoming a first-responder on 9/11 On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Byram Township resident Allan Samson was enjoying an early breakfast with two... Local News 04 Sep 2024 | 06:18
The Vernon Township High School Marching Band plays ‘Medusa’ at a band competition Saturday, Sept. 30 in West Milford. (Photo by Rich Adamonis) Viking Marching Band competes The Vernon Township High School Viking Marching Band was one of seven competing in the second annual Highlander Marching... Local News 03 Oct 2023 | 08:02
Tim Wagner, left, Greenwood Lake Air Show chairman, shakes hands with Kent Pietsch, who is making his debut performance at the 2023 event. They are standing by Pietsch’s 1940 vintage 800-pound interstate Cadet aircraft in which he performs his renown aerobatic routines. (Photos by Rich Adamonis) Greenwood Lake Air Show under way The Greenwood Lake Air Show, now in its 14th year, will bring “some of the world’s best aerial acrobatic performers and thousands... Home 10 Jun 2023 | 04:29
The effects of the Kanouse wildfire last month are visible in the Newark Watershed area near Echo Lake in West Milford. (Photos by Rich Adamonis) State officials, Mother Nature assist Kanouse wildfire recovery There is a silver lining to the Kanouse wildfire, which burned across 972 acres of the Newark Watershed on West Milford’s... Home 03 May 2023 | 12:45
An aerial tanker drops water on a wildfire in West Milford as smoke billows into the air. (Photo courtesy of Curtis J. Dorph) Wildfire contained after 3 days but it’s still smoldering A wildfire that consumed almost 1,000 acres in West Milford was 100 percent contained as of 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15, nearly... Home 19 Apr 2023 | 01:54