Books reviewed by Andrea Dochney of the Oakland Public Library. The Worst Twelve Days of Christmas By: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen In an amusing twist on the traditional holiday song, older sister Joy laments sharing the holiday with her new baby brother. Frustration and exasperation arise as Joy deals with shattered ornaments […]
Christmas Food for Thought and Song By Veronica MacDonald Ditko An Accidental Anthropologist No one can deny the holidays are steeped in age-old traditions (well, unless you are an ardent follower of Festivus!). What’s interesting is that many foods mentioned in Christmas songs are foreign to most Americans. But they […]
On November 20, 2011 at approximately 1:39 a.m. officers were dispatched to Waters Edge on the report that a vehicle had been parked and the occupants walked down to a Gazebo by the lake. The officers located the suspects involved who had met them on a path leading from the […]
Occupy Protests: A Movement that is Out of Hand By Ryan Schwertfeger When I was asked to write about Occupy Wall Street [for Drumbeats], I decided that I would write an article based off of facts with my opinion instead of an article with my opinion supported by facts. I […]
Charles Frazier. Nightwoods. New York: Random House, 2011. As reviewed by Ted Odenwald Set in rural North Carolina in the early 1960’s, Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods exhibits strengths that readers have come to expect from his two earlier novels, Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moon: characters who are on the fringes of […]
Sponsored by the Municipal Alliances of Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff, John Halligan came to speak to students at Ramapo Valley and Indian Hills high schools, and he also spoke to parents in an evening session. Mr. Halligan conducted two presentations at Indian Hills and will follow with two at […]
