LINDEN, NJ — Matt Koziol was always destined to be a musician. He even remembers the first performer to get him curious about music: Elvis Presley. “Elvis was like the pinnacle. I thought I wanted to be this guy,” said Koziol in an interview with Union County LocalSource on Friday, May 6. Elvis wasn’t the […]
LINDEN, NJ — Linden Public Schools welcomed legendary rapper Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, a founding member of pioneering group Run-DMC, who delivered uplifting messages to students about reaching their greatest potential. McDaniels spoke to third-graders at School No. 4 on Tuesday, March 29, and visited students from Linden High School, and McManus and Soehl middle schools. […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — A team of young engineers from School No. 1 in Linden recently traveled to the New Jersey Institute of Technology to take part in the eSTEM Challenge, a design competition in which elementary school students design and build machines that use renewable energy. The challenge day, Monday, March 14, was the […]
LINDEN, NJ — Linden High School came together in a strong show of support for Ukraine on Friday, March 11, as hundreds of staff and students left class to join the Stand Up for Peace event in the school hallways. Three seniors who hail from Ukraine — Khrystyna Sul, Andriy Martsiyash and Solomiya Malanyuk — […]
LINDEN, NJ — The Linden High School Navy Junior ROTC stood up to the rigors of a full military inspection on Wednesday, Feb. 23, when active-duty personnel visited to give the regiment a meticulous once-over. The area manager inspection allowed the students to put their best foot forward before service personnel, as well as before […]
LINDEN, NJ — A group of technology students from School No. 4 and School No. 9 in Linden have been accepted to take part in the STEAM Tank Challenge, a statewide competition in which students apply science and technology skills to create a product that addresses a real-world problem. The program encourages students and teachers […]
LINDEN, NJ — The city of Linden has converted a landfill into a gold mine with the transformation of 55 acres of an urban dumping ground located off Lower Road into the Hawk Rise Community Solar Project. According to Rebecca Tattoli, the confidential assistant to Mayor Derek Armstead, the landfill had been closed for almost […]
LINDEN, NJ — Linden High School students who are members of the Entrepreneurial Management Achievement Program recently hosted Linden Police Chief David Hart and members of his department for an informal, friendly meeting. The officers talked about their work, and some students expressed an interest in exploring law enforcement. The Tuesday, Feb. 1, meeting lasted […]
LINDEN, NJ — The love and generosity of a retired elementary school teacher from Linden is helping a former colleague to go above and beyond for her students — and causing ripple effects of kindness throughout the school. School No. 10 technology teacher Kim Kefalas wanted to get lapel microphones for her elementary students to […]
LINDEN, NJ — Cherie Pizzano, the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association Hall of Fame coach of the Linden High School bowling team, is retiring at the end of the 2021-22 winter season, after 22 years of coaching the Tigers on the alleys. Pizzano was surprised with a party in her honor at Jersey Lanes in […]