Wayne School Named One Of NJ’s Best For COVID Learning Gap Recovery
WAYNE, NJ — Wayne’s Packanack Elementary has been recognized as a school where students had positive results in English language arts and math, after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted classroom learning. The “Promising Practices Project” is a state research initiative aiming to identify and spotlight innovative practices that New Jersey schools implemented to improve learning as…
Krell Working to Resume Operations
On August 29, 2024, Wm. R. Kennedy Buhler, aka Wil Buhler, informed Krell dealers, distributors, and customers that Krell is well on the path to reopening. “We have made significant progress over the past weeks in our efforts to resume operations,” Buhler wrote in a letter. “Following the recent passing of our beloved leader, Rondi…
Dead Fish Found In Orange Reservoir; Essex County Investigates Cause
THE ORANGES, NJ — Investigators are trying to figure out what has been causing dead fish to appear at a reservoir near the Essex County South Mountain Recreation Complex in West Orange, officials say. Several social media posts have shared photos of clusters of deceased fish at the Orange Reservoir, which can be seen from…
New Music from Johnny Cash & Paul McCartney
At this late date, it seems impossible that there could still be “lost” albums lingering in the vaults by musicians as important and successful as Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney. And yet Universal Music has just released “new” albums by both artists that significantly add to their already hallowed recording catalogs. In 1993, just prior…
Say Namaste To Noir Yoga, Bed-Stuy's New Black-Owned Yoga Studio
BED-STUY, NY — Bed-Stuy local Mason Mason has been practicing yoga for 20 years, and he has almost always been the only Black man in his classes, he told Patch. That’s why he opened Noir Yoga, his own yoga studio, this month on Ralph Avenue in Bed-Stuy. His studio, which opened on Aug. 1, prioritizes…
Ex-Downers Grove Coach Admits To Child Porn: Records
DARIEN, IL – A former assistant girls track coach at Downers Grove South High School pleaded guilty last month to a felony child pornography charge, according to court records. Darien resident Glenn Clifford Messmer was arrested April 25, 2023. The same day, he resigned from his volunteer coaching job, which he held for a couple…
Malfunctioning Alarm Triggers 'Unplanned' Fire Drill At EPCHS
EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Students at Evergreen Park Community High School got an unplanned fire drill Wednesday morning when the building evacuated due to a malfunctioning fire alarm, school officials said. Interim Dist. 231 Supt. Michael Riordan told Patch that at approximately 8:30 a.m. the fire alarm system was triggered just as the school day…
Online Threats Targeting Murrieta School: 23-Year-Old Woman Arrested
MURRIETA, CA — A 23-year-old woman with a history of making criminal threats in Riverside County was in custody after she allegedly made threats this week against Thompson Middle School in Murrieta. Julianna Ortgega of Menifee was arrested Wednesday morning following a Murrieta Police Department investigation that began Tuesday after online threats were made targeting…
Mytek HiFi Brooklyn D/A processor–headphone amplifier Mytek Brooklyn Plus
Jim Austin auditioned the Mytek HiFi Brooklyn DAC+ in April 2018 (Vol.41 No.4): In the year since I sampled Brooklyn’s music scene—in my November 2016 review of Mytek HiFi’s Brooklyn DAC—there’s been a lot of local music news. Jay-Z (whose name is or ought to be derived from the subway lines that pass through Williamsburg…
Rabbit Holes #10: Les McCann’s Never a Dull Moment!
The best Christmas gift in history was George Bailey being shown what the world would be like without his being born, courtesy of Angel Second Class Clarence, in the classic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life. More recently, and in the real world, the best gift ever was the release of pianist Les McCann’s Never…