Barnstable Academy Celebrated National School Choice Week

Barnstable Academy Celebrated National School Choice Week with Special Food Drive Event Oakland, NJ – Barnstable Academy held a three-week Food Drive leading up to National School Choice Week. Barnstable’s Student Government researched a local organization in need of supplies and found The Jewish Family Services based out of Teaneck, […]


February Special Events Library

February Special Events at the Oakland Public Library (Children’s Dept.)      The Oakland Garden Club will be visiting the Library on Thursday, February 9 from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m.  Oakland children, ages 5 & up, will be making a valentine surprise for their favorite person.  The program will be held […]


Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. As Reviewed by Ted Odenwald Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit, “Hamilton,” the biography which inspired that play has resurfaced as a must-read (or re-read) work. Ron Chernow’s methodical research and incisive analysis has produced a vivid portrait of the life […]


Dog Park fundraising gets the go ahead

It is with excitement that I can relay to you that I have received the go-ahead to start fundraising for the dog park! My involvement with this project began in 2008, when I had to propose something that would benefit our community as an eighth-grade assignment at Valley Middle School. […]