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A New Jersey public school forced students to keep an image of Dem Rep. Analilia Mejia on their school-issued computers to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month two months before election day, an angry parent has alleged. The screen background was reportedly set for all students in the Glen Ridge Public School system, and a parent said that their child’s Spanish teacher threatened to student the student to the principal if they changed it. “I was outraged,” the parent, who wished to remain anonymous due to fears of retaliation, told The Post. “We’re in the school system because we’re the number one...

If you live in New York City and are at a stage in your life when you're contemplating a move to the suburbs (or your friends have begun to leave the city en masse), you've probably heard of at least one of these towns in Essex County: Montclair, Maplewood, and Glen Ridge. That's because these three spots, all accessible via New Jersey Transit trains, are eternally popular among NYC expats looking for more space and a little more greenspace for their green. "We have a lot of people coming from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken," says Stacie Levy of...

When Becky and David Middleton, both 41, needed more space for their family of four children, ages 6 to 11, they moved just 10 blocks, paying $840,000 last April for an 1887 Victorian farmhouse with five bedrooms in Glen Ridge, N.J. A kitchen and bathroom renovation is underway. They have lived for 16 years in the 1.5-square-mile Essex County borough of around 7,500 with vintage homes and gaslit streets, wedged between the busier suburbs of Montclair and Bloomfield, and bordering the city of East Orange to the south.