CLARK, NJ — Alyssa DeMarco, a student in Debbie Camillo’s fourth-grade class at Frank K. Hehnly School, earned first place in the annual “Young Writers of Union County” poetry contest. In recognition of Arbor Day, the Union County Board of County Commissioners has its annual Union County Arbor Day Poetry Contest. The contest encourages environmental […]
CLARK, NJ — The Arthur L. Johnson High School music program, directed by ALJ teacher Erik Krebl and Carl H. Kumpf Middle School teacher Andrew Calo, has received numerous recognitions recently. Arthur L. Johnson High School’s jazz band attended Overbrook’s Yearly Jazz festival, where the ensemble received an Outstanding Band award and ALJ student Brian […]
CLARK, NJ — During the Town Council meeting on Monday, May 15, Mayor Sal Bonaccorso offered a proclamation declaring the first Friday in June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day in the township. Members of the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America were presented with the proclamation. Joan Peters invited the public […]
CLARK, NJ — The Clark Recreation building was recently transformed into a set for the filming of A24’s new dial-up disaster comedy “Y2K” from actor/comedian/writer and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter. Mooney is directing and Winter is producing from a screenplay they wrote. The production brings the audience back […]
CLARK — Arthur L. Johnson High School senior Connor Chin was recently named a Commended Student in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program and recognized at the February Clark Board of Education meeting. Each October, students nationwide are given the opportunity to take the PSAT. This program provides students with a standardized testing experience and […]
CLARK, NJ — Members of Valley Road Elementary School’s Student Council executive board were given an assignment to brainstorm ideas for a garbage can design. “On any given day, a person could walk past the bathroom in the first-third hallway and see paper towels on the floor, which were such an eyesore, due to the […]
CLARK, NJ — On Friday April 14, the Arthur L. Johnson High School girls lacrosse program hosted its first ever game in program history. The girls took on Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School’s junior varsity team. Early in the first half, Ava DeMarco scored the first goal in the history of the program off of an […]
CLARK, NJ — The Greater Westfield Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Clark Business Alliance, the Union County Board of Commissioners and JC Productions, will be presenting its inaugural Rock the Block Street Fair in Clark. On Sunday, April 30, Westfield Avenue, from Dawn Drive to Raritan Road, will be closed and transformed […]
Problems at the printing plant where our newspapers are printed have caused a delay in their distribution. Subscribers to the News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, The Glen Ridge Paper, West Orange Chronicle, Irvington Herald, The Independent Press of Bloomfield, Record-Transcript and Union County LocalSource should receive their newspapers in Friday’s mail. We apologize for […]
CLARK — Kindergarten students at Valley Road Elementary School have been spending a lot of time getting to know their local community helpers and their contributions to our town and larger community. The classes recently hosted a variety of community helpers, including pediatric nurse Lauren Edwards, performance improvement coordinator at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital; […]