The Memorial Day parade for Oakland went through downtown Oakland with local residents lining the parade route ready to cheer.
Spectators who banked the sides of Ramapo Valley Road were active participants in a parade that featured the best of Oakland, the volunteers from many of the civic and religious organizations, the first responders, the kids, [...]
The Ramapo Valley Baptist Church announces it has become a drop off location for the “Cell Phones for Soldiers” program.
More than 150,000 troops are serving overseas. Cell Phones for Soldiers are calling on all Americans to support the troops by donating old cell phones. Cell Phones for Soldiers hope to collect over 50,000 unused [...]
When I Grow Up
By: Leonid Gore
A great book to share between father and sons, this book utilizes bright colors and cutouts. The book depicts a tiny drop becoming a rushing river and a small sprout becoming an immense tree till finally we see what the small boy wants to grow up to be…his father. Leonid [...]
Sandcastles Have Lots of Substance, Or Do They?
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
Summer is here and sandcastles are on my mind. It seems natural to want to make something out of the immense stretches of sand down south. It’s like a huge sandbox! Put a pile of it in front of a baby and he/she [...]
This fictional account of wartime Nazi Germany is unusual in many respects. The author clearly wants the reader to view the protagonists, Otto and Anna Quangel, as being heroic; yet they are ordinary working people in no position of influence and without connections or power to resist—much less to overturn– the deadly suppression of the [...]
The annual Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony, sponsored by the American Legion and the Borough of Oakland, will be held on Sunday, May 25 beginning at 1:00 PM at Grove Street and Ramapo Valley Road. The parade will close with a ceremony in Veterans? Park. Complimentary food and refreshments will be served at [...]
Oakland PD keeps the heat on local drivers under the influence. A compilation of police activity between May 19-21 exemplify the situation
The Oakland Girl Scout Service Unit recently held an encampment - Camping Rocks! Oakland Girl Scouts (CR!OGS). There were almost 100 participants including the leaders.
Girl Scouts include 6 levels: Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors. Brownies and up were invited to camp, while Daisies were [...]
The Ramapo Valley Baptist Church announces its Summer Worship schedule. Starting Sunday, June 27, 2010 our morning Worship Service will start at 10:00 AM and our Sunday School will not meet during the Summer. Our regular worship schedule will resume again in the Fall on Sunday September 12.
The Ramapo [...]
Media Sciences in Oakland, NJ, and Cartridge World in Franklin Lakes, NJ offer some insight into developments in the color printing world that make thinking green both frugal and environmentally sound.
When people are thINKing about their printers’ ink cartridges, they often think green - because it seems like the printers are often cheaper than the [...]
West Bergen Mental Healthcare
ASPERGER’S RELATED SERVICES
TRANSITION TO COLLEGE WORKSHOP
? learning new tools to succeed in college ?
5 week program
From June 16, 2010 – July 14, 2010
Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Cost of workshop is $250.00
Due with registration by June 10, 2010
Topics to be addressed include:
• Dorm life
• Commuting issues
• Campus resources
• Roommate issues
• Organization
• Time management
• Homesickness
• Daily living
• Money management
• Drugs/alcohol
• The unexpected
• The question of disclosure
• Advocacy
• Dating
• Social [...]
“It is not enough that children should be law-abiding; they must also be lawmakers in school, just as in adult life, as voting citizens or as officeholders, they will engage in lawmaking.” John Dewey
Student government elections at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, NJ resulted in Journal columnist Ryan Robinson (Ryan’s nom de plume) becoming [...]
Feast your eyes on the art work of Scott Scarpelli who will be displaying his art at The Endless Vine in Franklin Lakes from 6pm until 10pm on Saturday May 22th.
The works of art are for sale, and Scott is donating 25% of the proceeds to the Knights of Columbus in Oakland. [...]
The Davis Academy of Irish Dance will be holding an Open House on June 10th at the Oakland Elks lodge and new dancers are welcome. The open house will be from 4-5pm…the accompanying video is from a performance in St. Alban’s Church. Click on the thumbnail for details on the open house.
One reference in 1569 [...]
Bill Moyers. Genesis: A Living Conversation.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
and
Bill Moyers. The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets.
New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Reviewed by Ted Odenwald
Though both of these books have been around for 15 years, neither is outdated. Though both are companion pieces to a series of broadcasts on public television, each work stands on its [...]
Karl W. Blunck’s second life as an artist began years ago after a heart attack forced him into retirement at the tender age of 57. Recent regional awards are now being followed by an acceptance for the second year in a row in a juried show at the historic Salmagundi Club on Fifth Avenue in [...]
Residents of small towns throughout New Jersey, and the rest of America, can now crash the parties of their elected leaders.
Members of the United States Congress and of the United States Senate do pretty well raising money at parties down in Washington D.C, but most local residents are never invited or even know about them.
The [...]
Newcomers Host Town-Wide Garage Sale
The Oakland Newcomers & Neighbors Club is organizing a Town-Wide Garage Sale on Saturday May 15th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Oakland residents can register to have their address put on a map of all of the garage sales participating that day. This event will be advertised [...]
Come on down to Holiday Bowl on Saturday, May 15th from 1-2:30pm to help support the…
COMING THIS SUMMER… THE SOAR EXPERIENCE
West Bergen’s Asperger’s Related Services is pleased to announce that it is again sponsoring The SOAR Experience, a summer program for children and teens, ages 6-16, with Asperger’s Syndrome and other related disorders. The SOAR Experience, a therapeutic social skills program in a day camp-like environment, will be held [...]
