Envy Apartment

CLOSE Kristine De Jesus , a staff psychologist and coordinator of the Alcohol and Other Drug Program at MSU, speaks about the services the school offers to students dealing with alcohol and drug abuse. Mollie Shauger/NorthJersey.com Montclair State University " /> The Montclair State University Red Hawk statue on the school's campus. (Photo: Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com file) For students recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, the typical college campus can seem like a minefield of temptation, with frat parties, tailgating and late night rounds of beer pong. To help recovering students cope , Montclair State University has set aside a floor in one of its dormitories for those committed to sobriety. Officials hope it will give recovering students a refuge on campus, as well as a way for them to develop a small community of classmates who can provide each other support. The initiative at Montclair State  is part of a growing trend nationally , with about 50   coll...

Ruth Chase with two of her paintings at the opening of "West of Lincoln" Jennifer Swann Eddie Hadvina points to the painting of himself as an 11-year-old Boy Scout. In it, he’s wearing an olive green cap and a red kerchief with his khaki uniform, a skateboard in one hand and a trophy in the other. On his left shoulder is a patch representing Venice ’s Troop 34, which he joined at his mother's insistence. “That’s where all the trouble started,” says Hadvina, now 56 and sporting a gray goatee. “That’s where I met all my Venice Hoodlum friends ,” he says, referring to a street gang that was active in the neighborhood in the 1970s. Hadvina's parents, both Hungarian immigrants, visited Venice on their honeymoon in 1960 — Hadvina says he was conceived during that trip — and decided to move there two years later. Hadvina discovered skateboarding when the sport was still brand-new and being pioneered in the neighborhood by people like Stacy Peralta, one of his peers. But H...

WORCESTER - Two people will be arraigned Monday in Worcester County District Court on charges stemming from a Friday afternoon fentanyl bust . Reinaldo Monserrate, 33, of 21 Dorchester St. and 4 May St., and Nicole Auger, 24, also of 21 Dorchester St. and 30 Poland St. in Webster, were arrested by police and charged with trafficking a Class B substance (100-199 grams) and a drug violation within 1,000 feet of a school. The  school referenced in the charges is St. Mary's Junior/Senior High School, located across the street from where the arrests were made. Police said members of the vice squad had a search warrant for the basement apartment at 21 Dorchester St. When the officers entered the apartment around 1:40 p.m., Mr. Monserrate and Ms. Auger were inside, along with a 19-year-old female and a 3-year-old child. Police said the search produced several bags containing fentanyl, $405 in cash, a digital scale, and paperwork apparently belonging to Mr. Monserrate and Ms. Auger. T...