A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramPSA: Wear the RightSunscreen This SummerThere’s no doubt that as we head into the summer season, you will hear from someone “make sure to apply sunscreen” when stepping out into the sun. Inevitably, some will wear it, some won’t, but w...

“For the students, by the students, since 1935,” is a slogan for the WHS journalism program that holds great meaning. Three publications, Hi’s Eye, Hi’s Eye Sports and Optic Magazine, are completely student-run and Hi’s Eye is one of the last remaining weekly printed high school publications left in...

Eighty years ago today, on June 6, 1944, Allied forces staged the unprecedented land, air and sea campaign known as D-Day, a historic event not only in its scope but in its impact on the course of world history.Codenamed Operation Overlord, this epic military event to wrest control of Western Europe...

“Mom, I would prefer not to sign up for weekend dance or swimming classes during the school year,” said my granddaughter, Fiona, to my daughter last summer. She was six years old and about to start first grade. Fiona loves to swim all summer long and dance during her school day. She is full of energ...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramDon’t Let Your Disappointment In The Choices Dissuade You From VotingThe year is 2012, and I am sitting in my second-grade class. Images of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were projected on the SmartBoard: an elementary school attempt at ...

I Will Continue to Advocate for Full-Time DPW Employees The Mayor’s reliance on seasonal laborers to address staffing shortages in the Department of Public Works (DPW) is fundamentally flawed. Seasonal workers are, by definition, temporary and lack the consistency and dedication that full-time emplo...

The Clark Reservoir is gross. Our staff has a wager on how many mattresses and tires (and who knows — maybe even a whole car) will be uncovered when the county does finally decide to dredge it. A water company built the reservoir in 1907, and to the best of our knowledge, it has never been properly ...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramJune 2024: A BittersweetFarewell to High SchoolJune 2024. Bittersweet is the only appropriate word to describe it. The rush of emotions that range from sadness to joy. This has been the date that was given to us from the beginning, the...

Zigbone Farm sits in a valley, nestled inside a verdant dip where sheep graze, donkeys bray, and contented cows moo, making farmland music. Last month, eight of us writers gathered at this one-hundredacre oasis in Western Maryland. We stayed in the original farmhouse insulated with strawbales that b...

New Jersey legislators eviscerated governmental transparency last week when both the House and the Senate voted to approve sweeping changes to the state’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Now it sits on the desk of Governor Phil Murphy for his signature or veto.The bill, which restricts access to com...