June 10, 2021 at 1:00 AM
WEST ORANGE, NJ West Orange High School AFJROTC (Air Force Junior Reserve Training Corps) Cadet Austin Cowley has been awarded a full scholarship to attend the second annual Air Force Junior ROTC Cyber Academy.
Cowley, a junior, was selected as one of only 100 cadets nationwide.
During this summer’s virtual Cyber Academy Cowley will build his skills under the supervision of instructors from Dakota State University. He will earn college credits and his information technology certification in Cyber.
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West Orange, NJ Fire Chief Anthony Vecchio invites the public to attend the annual Flag Day celebration. The much-anticipated ceremony, which was canceled last year, returns to Fire Headquarters.
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Orange School District and the West Orange African Heritage Organization will celebrate the first official Juneteenth Holiday in the State of New Jersey on June 19 by.
Last September, Anna Samanamu, a West Orange High School paraprofessional educator, submitted a video about her parents and brother immigrating from Peru to the United States to the PBS American.
May 25, 2021 at 1:57 AM
West Orange resident and TAPinto journalist, Deborah Balthazar, has been named the inaugural New York University (NYU) recipient of the Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund Scholarship.
Balthazar, 25, graduated cum laude from Caldwell University in 2017. She majored in biology and completed pre-med curriculum, but realized that science journalism is her true calling after receiving a summer fellowship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
She has been contributing to TAPinto West Orange for two years and is also a substitute science teacher. Balthazar will begin the program in September and pursue her master s degree in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at NYU.