“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” - Confucius A farmhouse, rolling hills, 100 hillside acres, ten writers, a communal table for farm fresh meals, warm hosts, an erudite instructor, and assorted donkeys and goats: Zigbone Farm in Western Maryland is my happy place. My phone and laptop tak...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramIn 1997, my parents settled in New Jersey and never looked back. Having immigrated from Ukraine, this state became their introduction to America, and later, the only home I’d come to know — my birthplace and the official “land of my pe...

TRENTON -- Senate President Nick Scutari called for the appointment of an Independent Monitor to oversee the Office of Public Integrity andAccountability in the Department of Law and Public Safety.The OPIA, established in 2018 with the responsibility of investigating violations of public trust, has ...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program

This Tuesday voters will head to the polls to elect a new governor, fill seats local on governing bodies in Westfield, Garwood, Cranford and Clark, and choose representation to the State Assembly and Boards of Education in Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Clark and Cranford. Candidate statements, biographica...

“How can I pick both kids up on time when their schools end at 3 p.m. and are five miles apart?” “Why am I the only sibling tasked with caring for my mother? Is it because I’m the only daughter?” Tight mouths and furrowed brows painted my psychotherapy patients’ faces, mostly women, in shades of str...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramThe lyric “I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? ‘Cause she’s dead!” has been stuck in my head ever since Taylor Swift released “The Life of a Showgirl.” The truth is, I’m disappointed. And by disappointed, ...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramIt has been hard to miss the recent deaths of young teenagers on e-bikes that have been covered incessantly on social media, by news outlets and in conversations amongst friends. However, as horrific and devastating as these accidents ...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program

“It’s too late,” many of my psychotherapy patients said with downcast eyes and frowning mouths, “It’s all over.” “What’s too late?” I asked, worried that I was about to hear about a death in the family or a cancer diagnosis. “Friendship,” they replied.Huh, I wondered, had they tried to make new frie...