Mona Hanna-Attisha. What The Eyes Don’t See: A Crisis, Resistance, And Hope In An American City. New York: One World, 2018. As reviewed by Ted Odenwald Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a fiery, fiercely focused, determined pediatrician, tells of her battle against government officials when she learned that the entire city of […]
Children’s Hawthorne history book launches “A Rock Solid History of Hawthorne, New Jersey” explores history through rocks Local author Veronica MacDonald Ditko is launching her first book entitled “A Rock Solid History of Hawthorne, New Jersey.” Children learn best through tangible objects like rocks. The book explores the history of […]
Charles Frazier. Varina: A Novel. New York: Harper Collins, 2018. As reviewed by Ted Odenwald In 1906, Varina, Howell Davis, the 80-year-old widow of Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, is confronted in her Saratoga Springs, New York, residence by James Blake, an African-American teacher. Blake has with him a history of […]
As a concerned parent and taxpayer of the Ramapo-Indian Hills School District, I am in total disbelief with the Ramapo-Indian Hills Board of Education and its fact finders report. The “supposed” independent report from the fact finder is completely “one-sided”. It is obvious why the Board of Education accepted this […]
Growing up in Oakland: 1948 – circa. 1960 By Cal Bickford THE MOVE TO OAKLAND My family moved into town during the fall of 1948. Up to that time we had lived in a new home that our parents built in a new development during 1940 in suburban Fair Lawn. […]
REED’S Garden Grows Gold by Meghan Halloran As an Ambassador Girl Scout in Troop 70305 and senior at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, I recently completed a project for my Girl Scout Gold Award entitled, “REED’S Garden”. Over the past two years, I have spent more than 80 hours […]
