Like any good mom, I wanted to give my 15-year-old daughter something she really wanted for her birthday. So what did she want to do more than anything else this weekend to celebrate? Maybe a Broadway show? A Knicks game? A day at a spa? A trip to the beach? She wanted to go to the beach all right - to Bamboozle, the three-day music festival at Asbury Park that is expected to draw 90,000 concertgoers down the shore over the weekend. A few months ago, a concert on the beach sounded like a fun and reasonable thing to do – at least one day of it – so I let her pick a day, and I offered to drive …
The Movie "Bully" is showing at the Millburn Cinema, and I am determined to find some time to take my 11-year-old and 15-year-old to see it. It’s been well received and by all accounts is an important film for families to see – despite the controversy over its initial R rating that was reduced to PG-13 after a national petition and uproar. The movie even came up as a topic of conversation at the Millburn Board of Education meeting last Monday, when parents urged the board, administration, faculty, students and parents to go see it. Some are curious as to whether it is appropriate for …
Parents who’ve been through it know that the most challenging part of their job begins 13 years – more or less – after their children are born. One day the child who saw you as a hero for so long becomes surly, gives you that look, tells you you’re annoying and that they hate you. And so it begins. …The road to adulthood. That’s why Millburn Municipal Alliance Committee, the Millburn Special Education Committee and the Jewish Family Service Metrowest hosted a workshop this week with Montclair therapist Beth Sandweiss, who helps parents reconnect with their teens by learning to communicate …
When I started working as the local editor of Millburn-Short Hills Patch nine months ago, I figured my days of covering disasters were over, or at least would be few and far between. After 25 years in the news business and a lot of disaster coverage, I was fine with that. And I had always dreamed of someday running a small town newspaper, keeping folks up-to-date on news that hits home. Patch seemed like the 21st Century version of that dream. So much for the quiet life of a small-town news editor. 2011 was a big year for news in Millburn-Short Hills, with two natural disasters in two months…
After months of protests, contentious meetings and accusations of conflicts of interest, the state Department of Education on Friday rejected charter schools that would have drawn from Millburn, approving only four of 55 applications statewide. It was a decision with statewide implications, garnering mention in the The New York Times and other major newspapers. Millburn Patch has been following the story since the Millburn School district got word that the schools had filed their paperwork with the NJ Charter School office. The decision on Friday was welcome relief to a long and heated debate…
If you’ve driven by the Chanticler property anytime in the last few weeks, you’ve noticed that everything’s gone – all the trees on the hill and a lot of the hill as well. As Toll Brothers makes room for the 30-unit Chanticler at Short Hills Town Houses, they’ve clear-cut a good portion of the property, although a stand of trees on the back portion of the property will remain. The plans called for the destruction of the trees, and Millburn Town Forrester Thomas Doty says most of the trees destroyed were in poor condition, either from disease or insect infestation. Most of the other trees that…
We're excited to inaugurate a new series for our Patch Readers: "Dispatches: The Changing American Dream." Every day, the national media is full of stories about how American families, businesses and neighbors are adjusting to these trying times. So many changes are happening so fast that it's dizzying: national debates about unemployment, foreclosures, debt, religion, government and private enterprise all touch on fundamental ways in which we see ourselves and our communities. At Patch, we want to explore that conversation on a daily basis so we can better understand how our neighbors are …
