During the second week of May, residents of the East Coast received a rare treat: a glimpse of aurora borealis, typically only seen in remote Northern areas of the world, in their backyards.
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Alex: Over my high school career, I have taken eleven AP classes and twelve AP tests. My experience has ranged from highly intellectually stimulating to easygoing. While I walked out of every AP class...
Midterms weren’t the only thing the JCHS Mock Trial Team had to worry about during the week of the 28th of January. On Tuesday, January 30th and Thursday, February 1st, the defense and prosecution...
On Saturday, January 6, 2024, JCHS’s Mock Trial team traveled to Piscataway High School to participate in an inter-county scrimmage. Featuring schools from Bergen, Middlesex, Essex, and...
One of the many benefits of living in Caldwell/West Caldwell is our proximity to New York City. It is easy to forget that we live practically next door to arguably the most global and important city in...
Looking back on my four years of tennis, it is easy for me to see how everything fell into place—how every lesson, practice, and season shaped me into the player I am today. But at the...
The JCHS tennis community was absolutely thrilled when the school decided to renovate its four tennis courts in the spring of last year. But upon digging up the first layer of courts, construction...
On August 16, 2023, the morning of the JCHS girls tennis team’s first day back on the courts, the JCHS tennis community received saddening news. Jack Kloss, who would have begun his 30th season as...
This past month, sophomores Nicolina Castellano and Carter Kaiser were named JCHS FBLA’s Members of the month. Both students have not only excelled academically, but committed commendable amounts...
The hottest sport in the area has gotten two new major developments: the Grover Cleveland and Westville Pool Courts, once exclusively tennis courts, are being converted into tennis and pickleball facilities.
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Mock Trial may be an unfamiliar name to many JCHS students. However, Mock Trial offers students one of the most powerful opportunities JCHS has to offer—a true courtroom experience. This...
Last month, Grace Szostak and I had the immense pleasure of meeting with Nancy Friedlander, a long-time JCHS (or should I say GCHS) English teacher and founder of The Caldron. Now 92 years old, many things...
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Over the past few months, the Supreme Court’s unprecedented conservative rulings have generated heated discussions. Social media has been a vital breeding ground...
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Saying the coronavirus was “rough” for the Met Opera would be a gross understatement. The pandemic shut the Opera for 18 months, resulting in a loss of $150 million in anticipated...
The State Leadership Conference (SLC) for the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) club has finally become a reality! After a year of virtual competitions and conferences, FBLA members...
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Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 independent/dark comedy film that was filmed largely right here in JCHS. Many other scenes were also filmed around West Caldwell,...
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I have many memories of visiting some of our nation’s finest universities. When my family went to California, we made sure to visit Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech. When we did a...
On October 3, 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, or ICIJ, released the results of an investigation on the financial secrets of many of the world’s wealthiest and most...
Colonial Pipeline Co., the largest refined-products pipeline in the U.S. and the main pipeline carrying gasoline and diesel fuel to the East Coast, was shut down after being hit with a cyberattack...
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iHerb and Amazon are among the largest e-commerce shops for health and beauty products today, with both sites boasting an impressive...
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The new Future Business Leaders of American (FBLA) chapter of James Caldwell High School gives students the opportunity to explore a wide variety of interests and learn and interact...
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Founded twenty years ago, German progressive metal band The Ocean has experimented with a variety of album concepts, from astronomy to existentialism. In 2018,...
Today, big tech is embroiled in countless issues: consumer privacy, the cost of being able to access the internet, and with the controversial Earn It Act set to make its House debut, many Americans...
