Ridgewood resident Chloe R Fernandez was a bundle of excitement when she discovered a limo parked outside her home, ready to whisk her away to her first-ever book signing at Barnes and Noble on Route 17 South in Paramus last Saturday.

Proponents for limiting the use of solitary confinement cells in New Jersey's prisons were victorious last June, when the state Senate passed The Isolated Confinement Restriction Act (S.51) by a margin of 23-16.

The senior class at Ridgewood High School is probably accustomed to seeing double. Or it should be, given that there are 17 sets of twins and one set of triplets roaming the halls.

As a child, sharing a birthday with the United States of America was not exactly thrilling for soon-to-be centenarian Beulah Moody because, for her grandmother, celebrating the nation's independence took precedence.