While the rest of New Jersey’s 560 municipalities are gearing up to battle with budgets that will be facing lower tax revenue, lower state aid, and increased costs, Oakland’s obsession with recreation appears to be taking center stage as appointments to the Recreation Commission loom. The borough attorney explained a […]
New York’s most famous celebrity couple have apparently broken up, and people are suspecting that one half of that couple may actually be dead. Lola and Pale Male, the Red-tailed Hawks that captured the imagination of New Yorkers, have broken up with the disappearance of Lola – and Pale Male […]
New Jersey recently released the test scores for individual schools. Readers can find reports for Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff at the bottom of this article, and more detailed analysis at NJ Department of Education. The role of standardized testing has been a matter of public debate for decades now, […]
Oakland Recreation No question one of the best in the county, possibly one of the best in the state, and a Business Week article from 2007 would say one of the best in the nation. The Oakland recreation program operates under the auspices of the volunteer Oakland Recreation Commission serving […]
The Winter Solstice carries with it a promise of warmer weather and last night coincided with a full lunar eclipse. The last time a Winter Solstice and full lunar eclipse passed together in the night was almost 500 years ago. Some say the moon can evoke both romance and madness; […]
Oakland has scheduled an accelerated tax lien sale for December 28th to collect overdue taxes. Municipalities in New Jersey normally schedule tax lien sales after the end of the fiscal year, with a recent sale in July 2010 being used to collect taxes for 2009. There does exist in NJ […]
