With the help of the Workmom group, a Millburn mother is showing that when it comes to raising children, it really does take a village and, sometimes, it takes someone else’s village as well. A month ago, Emily Bauer was looking forward to the joyful news of the Nov. 25 delivery of twins expected by her friends and colleagues Michal Friedman and Jay Snyder, but instead learned the unimaginable had happened - Michal, 44, had died from complications after delivering the babies via C-section the day after Thanksgiving. “It’s unbelievably heartbreaking,” she said. “They had tried for seven years …

As the 8:47 train to New York City pulled into Short Hills Sunday night, the engineer saw the figure of an animal just out of reach of the headlights. He inched the train forward to get a better look. “I thought it might be a fox or a coyote,” engineer John Torres recalled. “But as we got closer I could see it was a dog.” The dog just stood there on the tracks, shaking. Torres sounded the horn but the dog stayed put. After a moment, he radioed Conductor Stephen Pollock to tell him why they were stuck, then Pollock got off the train and walked down the tracks to the dog. “You could tell she …

Deborah Akel drove from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia to see Richie Furay in concert only to find that he was sick and the Philly show had been cancelled. That night she went on his website and left him a message to wish him a speedy recovery and to tell him how “majorly bummed” she was not be able to see his show. Enter David Stone of Short Hills. Stone, who was instrumental in bringing Furay to Temple B’nai Jeshurun last week, saw the posting and knew he could turn a bad day into a good one for a die-hard fan of the former Buffalo Springfield singer. “I emailed her and told her that if …

Living in Millburn through Hurricanes Floyd and Irene, Lise Chapman had seen up close the destruction that could be brought storms that size. And because she has friends in Paterson, she knew that while the damage from Irene was extensive in Millburn, it was even worse in Paterson, where many families were left homeless, prompting a visit from President Obama. A friend in Paterson asked Chapman to help with the families devastated by the floods there. So she filled a couple of bags of clothes, asked a few friends to help and sent an email to the Millburn-Short Hills WorkMoms, a community …