Renee Burns spent a long spring training weekend with her West Milford High School lacrosse team in Florida this spring, before the season was canceled. She is headed to Monmouth University, where freshman orientation is still planned for early September. ( WMLAX) Roll with it 101: College-bound seniors ponder their future Isabella Sergent, a senior at Sparta High School, already has her roommate picked out and knows where she’ll be dorming when... Local News 28 May 2020 | 03:04
This 1900s farmhouse on 1.2 acres in Chester, N.Y., is under contract to a New York City buyer. The exodus from the city, combined with a pandemic-related hesitance to list houses, has created a historic housing shortage and a pronounced seller's market. ( Becca Tucker) Pandemic-driven house frenzy hits local towns Justin Melia and his family, who usually live in Astoria, Queens, closed in December on a vacation house in Warwick, N.Y.,... Local News 22 May 2020 | 02:02
Toilet paper is back in stock at ShopRite in Chester, and stores everywhere. "That’s going to be true across the board," said John Sterman, professor of system dynamics at MIT Sloan School of Management. "It’ll take a little longer for things like eggs and milk and meat." ( Becca Tucker) Store manager: ‘Please buy only what you need’ Toilet paper, bottled water, flour, yeast, cleaning supplies, meat. “All the canned goods. From A to Z, they were just buying... Local News 08 May 2020 | 01:13
Laina Southway, 21, and her sister bottled 500 half-gallons in three hours last Saturday for a food bank. Is that a record? "That's pretty good," she acknowledged. ( Becca Tucker) At self-sufficient dairy farms, 'the pandemic hit, and people started coming' As shoppers face gap-toothed shelves at the grocery store, farms everywhere are feeling the pain from the other end of an... News 30 Apr 2020 | 03:57
Front: Harley (left), Bugsy (right) being pet by Blake. Back: Hope (left) and Rambo (right) being pet by Keira. Harley and Rambo are the newest additions. ( Tiffany O'Keefe) Pet adoptions are up, but so are surrenders The Harrison-O’Keefe family had two big dogs and wasn’t looking for more. But when Christopher Harrison and Tiffany O’Keefe... Local News 23 Apr 2020 | 04:59
Lisa Mitchell is back to manning Down 2 Earth by herself, like she did for the first year and a half she was open. ( Becca Tucker) Mom and Pop shops hustle harder There isn’t a single local business that hasn’t been affected by the coronavirus one way or another. Those that are able... Local News 13 Apr 2020 | 04:23
Straus News Publisher Jeanne Straus, left, with family members Dion Gara, Kai Gara, Juno Gara and Rebecca Tucker, thank readers for supporting local jounalism. ( File photo) Reader thanks local journalists To the editor: I’ve held onto an article written in 2017 by publisher Jeanne Straus headlined "Why local news reporting matters."... Letters to the Editor 06 Dec 2019 | 10:55
Third-place winner Karin Harrison's kitchen garden in Florida. Harrison's garden was a stop on Dirt magazine's sixth annual Kitchen Garden Tour on Sunday, Aug. 11. Local vegetable gardens saluted at Dirt’s Kitchen Garden Tour Garden peepers young and old spent the day exploring backyard veggie patches, talking tomatoes and honeybees, and snacking... Local News 12 Aug 2019 | 12:51
