Published: September 30, 2011
Dear Donna, It’s only 45 Hours from Bien Hoa |
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Dear Donna, It’s only 45 Hours from Bien Hoa: Stories from the Vietnam War.
Douglas Neralich.
1st Books Library, 2002.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
Douglas “Doc” Neralich has created a succinct, incisive, and moving collage of his experiences as a medic with the 36th Engineer Battalion in Vinh Long, Vietnam. Interweaving short stories, brief anecdotes, and poetry, “Doc” [...]
Published: September 20, 2011
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Sept 30th, Tommy Wind, the youngest magician to ever have his own show on the Las Vegas strip, and the star of an upcoming reality TV Show, will be appearing at Indian Hills High School.
Published: September 19, 2011
VFW Post 5702 Sponsors Three Education Programs |
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VFW Post 5702 Sponsors Three Education Programs
VFW Post 5702 Commander Steve Vreeland recently announced Post 5702’s continued support of three educational programs designed to benefit students and teachers in Oakland and Franklin Lakes. According to Commander Vreeland, “As part of our efforts to support education and develop democratic values, we are proud to continue to [...]
Published: September 18, 2011
The Braves New World |
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IHHS new online newspaper and new music
Published: September 16, 2011
"Remember, Reflect, Never Forget" |
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“Remember, Reflect, Never Forget”
The Franklin Lakes Memorial Pond
10 Year Commemoration Ceremony
On September 10th, on a beautiful early Fall afternoon, approximately 400 people gathered at the entrance to the Borough’s Memorial Pond park, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 tragedy. The 90 minute ceremony (click here to view the program)honored victims of [...]
Published: September 12, 2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
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Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2003.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
To arrive at an accurate picture of Benjamin Franklin, claims biographer Walter Isaacson, “we must rescue [him] from the schoolbook caricature of a genial codger flying kites…and spouting homespun maxims… [and from] critics who would confine him with the [...]
Published: September 11, 2011
I Will |
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It will be the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, and the Franklin Lakes families and friends who lost loved ones will suffer through this day as they have every year since. First year, tenth year, or the twentieth year anniversary, time will not lessen the loss endured.
Collectively, the tenth anniversary incorporates not [...]
Published: September 9, 2011
Franklin Lakes Police Nab Suspects |
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See something, say something does not just apply to homeland security, it applies to securing homes, neighborhoods and communities.
A Franklin Lakes resident who saw something suspicious notified the Franklin Lakes Police Department, and two home burglars were arrested.
One of the suspects, Randy Canova, had an outstanding warrant from Passaic County, and shares the same name [...]
Published: September 8, 2011
Flood Aid Appeal |
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Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff share high schools, share services, and in the wake of the destruction caused by Irene’s flooding, they shared mutal aid as local governments responded to the natural disaster.
No lives were lost, but hundreds of lives have been impacted by the historic floods that tore through Oakland. Hundreds of homes have [...]
Published: September 6, 2011
September Teen Book Reviews |
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The Orange Houses
Paul Griffin
Tamika Sykes is a high school student who hates to wear her hearing aids, loves the rhythm of a guitar, works hard in class, and draws pictures void of people. Fatima is a refugee living in NYC all alone, with dreams of visiting the Statue of Liberty, and has a passion for [...]
Published: September 3, 2011
School Lunches: A Mother’s Conundrum |
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By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
Meal preparation often falls to mothers, and has been so since the dawn of hunters and gatherers. Call her Mom, Maid, Nanny, Grandma, Oma, or Tita, as my friend called her Filipino aunt– I’m sure these women have had to get a little creative with picky eaters.
School lunches in our [...]
Published: September 3, 2011
Michael Kenwood |
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Former Franklin Lakes resident dies in rescue efforts
