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Laura Griffin

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Laura Griffin was a full-time newspaper writer for more than 20 years at The Dallas Morning News, The St. Petersburg Times and elsewhere before becoming a freelancer. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, CNBC.com, Dallas Family Magazine and of course, Patch.com. She taught magazine writing and public affairs reporting as a adjunct professor at universities in Texas and after teaching remedial writing at Essex County College, she thought it was time to get back to doing what she likes best, writing. She moved to South Orange four years ago from Dallas, after visiting her inlaws in the area for the last 20 years. (Her husband graduated from Columbia High School. And she's bought her children shoes at Futters for 14 years -- long before she moved here.) She keeps busy with too much work and volunteer jobs  with her children's schools and sports teams, and loves how Patch helps her keep up with what's going on in our area.

She's covered everything from earthquakes and hurricanes to school boards, city hall, law enforcement, courts and social services. She is excited to get back to daily local journalism as the editor of the Millburn Patch because she thinks it's the news that matters most to people.

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Leave a note for your neighbor

Chris

9:06 am on Saturday, March 24, 2012

an 8th grader got hit by a car in downtown millburn I would like to know more about that

Alex

9:09 pm on Saturday, September 3, 2011

Laura, Chatham/Woodland Rd apartments got power on 9pm Sat.

SHMill

2:36 pm on Friday, September 2, 2011

Not sure how to contact you other than here as I can't find a way to email the author on the article you posted on Friday updates. Please ask Lt. Eakley to provide this update via reverse 911. There are still many residents without power and internet service making it difficult to stumble across such important updates. I know this is not your job, but I have sent an email to the police department (can't find an email for Lt. Eakley) and not sure if anyone is even checking that address. Seeing as though the entire M-SH community is still under a boil order, EVERYONE should be receiving updates via reverse 911. If residents don't care about the info, they can hang up.

Tom Schachtel

11:01 am on Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hello,
My Name is Tom. I am originally from Maplewood and now live in Springfield. I would like very much to write travel articles for the Millburn-ShortHills Patch I have travel extensively throughout The Local area,the Northeast, and throughout the US and Canada. My email is tolo523@comcast.net Thank You

SHMill

11:25 am on Saturday, July 2, 2011

Laura-
In the article, "BOE reviews results of self evaluation" it appears a comment was deleted but it is still showing up in the thread:

"Birnberg has always struck me as arrogant. He has made some nasty comments at meetings I have attended. We need a Board President who can strike a more collaborative tone."

I was wondering why the text is still showing when it was supposed to be deleted.

Thanks.
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