The Day: Good Neighbors
January 11, 2012 
On the first Thursday evening of March, a group of 12 people, including two from Maplewood, sat around a toddler-sized table at the Harmony Day Care in Irvington. They had gathered to plan the next phase of an out-sized ambition ...
Adding Literacy to Harmony
For the last 11 years, the Jefferson PTA has helped the fifth-grade class develop a service project to support others in need such as school children in Afghanistan and the St. Josephs Food Pantry. This year, the fifth-grade class reached out to help young children in ...
Kids Learn Litter Lesson from Playdate Earth, Oscar the Grouch and SHU
One way to get to Sesame Street might be by not littering. At least that's the latest word from Playdate Earth and Oscar the Grouch. "We want to teach kids to carry out the right thing," said Giada Litner, founder of the nonprofit that teaches kids about the environment and not ...
Rotary to present service awards
The Irvington Rotary Club will be holding its first-ever awards ceremony on Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. in Hanover Manor on Eagle Rock Avenue in East Hanover. The Service Above Self Awards will recognize outstanding individual service to the Irvington community in the categories of protective service; ...
Getting Irvington Organized and Headed in the Right Direction
Irvington, N.J., is known to many of its neighbors—including Maplewood—as a town to pass through quickly or be avoided altogether. Overcrowding, poverty, crime, narcotics, corruption—these words are often associated with Irvington. But a group of Irvington boosters are ...
PARENTING; Reaching a Milestone, and Looking Back
(Page 2 of 2) The economic collapse is particularly hard on poor parents. In March 2007 I wrote about a popular parenting program run for 25 years by the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Riverhead, on Long Island, that taught parents how to discipline without screaming and hitting; it ...
PARENTING; A Child’s Long Nights, Waiting for Mom By MICHAEL WINERIP
NAKIA ALEXANDER felt she had to take the promotion at McDonald's from a crew member to a second-shift manager. Though she would lose daytime hours, she believed she'd get more respect. ''If a crew person tries to say something, who are you? Just a crew person.'' As ...
Adding Literacy to Harmony
5th graders from Jefferson School in Maplewood at Harmony Day Care in Irvington, March 22, 2011. Credit Dawn Yoselowitz
