Monday, April 22, 2013
Glenwood, Deerfield and Hartshorn ranked high statewide with South Mountain and Wyoming in 80th percentile in academic achievement, according to the 2013 NJ School Performance Reports.
Millburn School District's elementary schools were recently ranked in the top tier in academic achievement throughout New Jersey according to the recent school performance reports issued by the Christie administration. Glenwood and Deerfield elementary led the group, ranking in the 96th percentile in the state with Hartshorn right behind in the 95th percentile. South Mountain and Wyoming both tested in the 81st and 81th percentile. Wyoming and Hartshorn schools were the only two that didn't meet 100 percent of their targets — Wyoming made 83 percent while Hartshorn made 75. Wyoming also only ranked in the 39th percentile for College and Career Readiness, meeting none of the state's targets and 58th in Student growth, meeting 100 percent …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
After placing first in the state competition Saturday, the elementary school's Destination Imagination Team is set to head to Knoxville, Tenn.
One of South Mountain School’s Destination Imagination Teams placed first during the New Jersey state competition held at Robbinsville High School this past weekend. The team, "Six Laughs," will be traveling to Knoxville, Tenn. to compete in the Global Finals over Memorial Day weekend along with over 1,200 teams from teams from 45 states, 7 Canadian provinces and 13 countries who will gather to showcase their Challenge solutions. “This is a very proud moment for us at South Mountain," Principal Scott Wolfe said. "All of the teams did a tremendous job, and we are so proud of all of the hard work that they all put into this activity, and the bonds that they have formed with their teammates.” South Mountain’s other three teams also did well …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. announced the county's deer management program was successful and will continue.
Trained marksmen were responsible for killing 152 deer at two reservations as part of the sixth year of Essex County’s deer management program, county officials announced Wednesday. The program, which ended last week, will continue into 2014, County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. said at a press conference to discuss the program at the South Mountain Reservation. "There's no question for the last six years this program has been very successful," DiVincenzo said. "This will program will continue next year." This comes a year after DiVincenzo announced the continuation of the deer management program this year was under discussion by the county. However, the county did scale back the program from last year's 24 hunting sessions in 12 …
Monday, November 26, 2012
Larry Dell's "Nature's Resolve" is the first in the new Wildflower Sculpture Project.
Maplewood resident Larry Dell says he spends a lot of time in the South Mountain Reservation — especially after October’s nor’easter. It was during his time in the Reservation, Dell studied the storm’s damage to nature and the foliage that he got the idea to do something positive with the twigs and branches. “I come up here often and after the snowstorm, there were so many trees and twigs down,” said Dell. “I decided I’d utilize these twigs and trees into this structure.” Dell collected the trees and branches and tightly wove them together in a pyramid shape. He then painted the sculpture a metallic aluminum color. The 9½-foot-tall, 5-foot-wide sculpture he created is made exclusively of storm-damaged twigs and branches and was …
Friday, November 16, 2012
The South Mountain Elementary School and South Mountain Civic Association lend a hand to those hit by superstorm Sandy.
The South Mountain Civic Association partnered up with the South Mountain School's effort this week to help collect supplies for the Red Cross. Principal Scott Wolfe and the PTO are rallying families to contribute supplies for a South Mountain School Cares donation drive for those hit by superstorm Sandy by Wednesday Nov. 21. Supplies will go to Red Cross in Middletown for distrubutuion throughout the state. Collections by grade level: "In speaking of help, many of your children, as well as the staff here at SMS, have been asking what else can be done to help out those who still are without power, and even homes, in New Jersey," Wolfe said in an email to the community. "Mr. Mongon and Mrs. Kirk did the research, and found that the …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Purpose is to explain various flood remediation options on different streets in the neighborhood.
Millburn Township Committee members on the flooding subcommittee will meet with residents of the South Mountain neighborhood on their turf this week to discuss flood remediation proposals with their hired engineer. Administrator Tim Gordon and either Mayor Sandy Haimoff or Deputy Mayor Robert Tillotson along with engineer Leo Coakley will go to the neighborhood more than once to discussion different options on different blocks about the proposals and about the determination of some land as wetlands. “The purpose of the meeting is the make sure it’s clear what the requirements are and what the impact will be,” Gordon said Monday night. The flood remediation proposals were outlined at a flood remediation meeting with Coakley in February and …
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Residents want a representative on subcommittee; township still looking into all the problems including sewer infrastructure, drainage and pumps.
Millburn will be dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Irene for a long time to come, but residents in the South Mountain area want some relief soon from the drainage issues that cause trouble any time it rains and want improvements to a sewer system back up into their homes, leaving them with much more than water to contend with. The Township Committee on Tuesday night heard the same report that the public heard last – with some additions from last week’s storm subcommittee meeting. Basically, nothing can be done to prevent flooding in a storm the size of Irene, which was bigger than a 100-year storm. But there areas in the neighborhood that are like “bowls” that retain water when it rains and those areas need help. Mayor Sandy Haimoff …
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Residents are also concerned about mosquitoes, contamination from sewage, as well as fixing the sewer and drainage problems before another major storm.
In a hot and overcrowded room, the Millburn Township’s Irene subcommittee met with residents, mostly of the South Mountain area, on Wednesday night to gather information about everything from the sewage flooding to the river overflowing its banks, to the residual effects of the flooding including contamination and the new mosquito breeding ground the area has become. At the first of the township's subcommittee meetings, engineers who helped the town with its flooding remediation after Hurricane Floyd discussed short, medium and long-range possible plans as well as action residents and the township can take to help prevent flooding in the future – unless there’s another natural disaster. Both town representatives and the engineers stressed …
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7:11 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sounds like ours scores will go up when we stop pulling our kids out of school for vacations and other important reasons. more ›