Yearly Archives: 2010


April Teen Book Reviews

Breathless by Jessica Warman Katie Kitrell’s life is a mess. It was when her mom finally became a successful artist and her dad started a psychiatry practice and the family actually had some money that Katie first started to feel the true burden of hatred and jealousy. The only friend […]


OEF Gambles on the Future

Monte Carlo is surrounded by France and close to Italy, but Oakland’s version could be found last Saturday night at the end of town on Rt 202. That’s where the Oakland Education Foundation held its Casino Night 2010 with gambling, dinner, drinks and dancing. As one parent announced, “I’m having […]


Zoning Out

Zoning Out By Veronica MacDonald Ditko An Accidental Anthropologist I truly get bitten by the daydreaming bug as soon as the weather gets warmer. Really it’s the sun that entrances me: the way the spring light dances and lingers during the day. And the smell of the thawing, melting earth […]


For Supporters of Chris Brandle 2

Donations can be made to: Christopher Brandle Joy of Life Foundation, P.O. Box 354, Oakland, NJ 07436 “…Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that […]


Oakland School Budget(s) Meeting(s)

School aid cuts are forcing local school boards to adjust budgets and how they promote those budgets to local residents. The towns of Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff were among the hardest hit by the recent cuts in state aid, and all the school boards are holding public meetings to […]


Helping Your Family Member Navigate SSI & SSD

Helping Your Family Member Navigate SSI & SSD Hosted by:                West Bergen Mental Healthcare’s Asperger’s Related Services Department Presenters:               Karl Kazmierczak, Esq., Social Security Disability Specialist and Darren Suelto, Esq. When:                       April 14, 2010 @ 7pm Where:                      West Bergen Mental Healthcare 120 Chestnut Street Ridgewood, NJ Who Should Come:  Adults, […]