Monthly Archives: June 2013


On the Job – June 10, 2013

On May 28, 2013 Officers Rowin and Gusterson were dispatched to a residence on Lakeview Terrace on the report of a suspicious person who appeared to be attempting to enter the residence through a window.  The officers investigation revealed that the suspect, who was temporarily residing with the resident, had […]


Garrett Gardner’s Got Game 1

Garrett Gardner of Ringwood, NJ, was eliminated from the NBC hit show “The Voice”.  Posting on his Facebook page after being eliminated, Gardner ended with,  “I may be off the show, but I’m not out of the game.” And it was game on across the Oakland border at Thatcher McGee’s […]


Marketing Government Spying 1

The cat is out of the bag at the National Security Agency after The Guardian newspaper in Britain released information concerning widespread domestic spying on Americans by the National Security Agency of the United States. Originally, it was reported that tens of millions of Americans who use Verizon as their […]


VMS Going To Nationals 1

Four Valley Middle School students will be representing Oakland, NJ at the National History Day National Finals June 9-13 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Valley Middle School students Kira Cuneo, Sofia Ebio, Sabina Borowiec and Glynnis Gourhan, have advanced to the national finals of the National […]


Isn’t Nature Wonderful? – Periodical Cicadas 2

Isn’t Nature Wonderful? – Periodical Cicadas Written by Jack Weiman, age 11 June 6, 2013 Every 17 years periodical cicadas come out of the ground in the middle of spring to find a mate and lay eggs.  Cicadas spend 17 years underground sucking sap out of roots from trees.  Cicadas […]