Bocce comes to Clark Recreation

CLARK – Recreation Director Ralph Bernardo was so grateful when the Keith W. Dolan Memorial Fund Committee told him they were making a donation to Clark Recreation for a brand new Bocce Court. The Court was then built and installed free of charge by Clark resident Steve Paterno and his son Steven. Bernardo said “Keith […]

Clark students utilize the scientific method

CLARK — Students in Ms. DeFalco’s 6th grade science classes at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark designed and conducted an experiment by using the steps of the scientific method. In order to successfully conduct an experiment, scientists must be able to apply the steps of the scientific method to solve a problem. Students worked […]

Language Arts combined with Music Class at Hehnly

CLARK — The students in Meghan Bowers’ fourth grade music class at Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark are combining language arts knowledge with music. In the first weeks of school, fourth grade music students review and learn rhythms. Rhythms are musical syllables used in the pronunciation of words related to melodies. Students then reviewed the […]

Clark students use their “Tools For School” to complete assignment

CLARK — Students in Denise Picciano’s eighth grade math class at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark spent the last three days learning about all different types of special angle pairs. Students completed an activity, similar to a color-by-number, which required them to answer multiple-choice questions about the different angle pairs. The answers to […]

Clark KMS 7th graders challenge their peers

CLARK — Seventh grade students in Miss Faro’s honors pre-algebra class at the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark worked in pairs to create challenging word problems. Students have been learning about different types of numbers that include fractions, decimals, and square roots. Each pair had to try their best to create the most […]

Third graders from Clark set goals

CLARK — This past week, Ms. Guarino’s third grade class at the Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark set goals for the upcoming year. Each student created a poster with text and a self-portrait to describe their goals for the year. Goals ranged from following the “golden rule” at all times, to spending more time […]

Mother Seton Regional Celebrates Gold

CLARK — Mother Seton Regional High School, a Catholic school for girls that is renowned for “academic excellence and Seton spirit,” is celebrating fifty years of secondary education. The school originally opened its doors in September of 1963, holding classes in a single wing of a building that was still under construction. Today, on a […]

Cranford, Hillside and Clark police cooperate during investigation integral to bank robbery arrest

UNION COUNTY — A Newark man and his girlfriend have been arrested and charged in federal court in connection with an armed robbery of Garden State Community Bank located at 310 North Avenue East in Cranford last month. At 1:42 p.m. on August 10, Cranford Police responded to an activated alarm and discovered that the […]

Clark teen charged with faking own abduction pleads guilty

The Clark teenager whose disappearance sparked an intensive search last year has admitted to using social media to make it appear that she had been abducted and later lying about it to investigators, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Thursday. Kara Alongi pleaded guilty before state Superior Court Judge Robert Kirsch to a […]