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Darren Cooper is from Slidell, La., and is a graduate of Louisiana State University. He covers any North Jersey sport — including soccer, gymnastics, wrestling, swimming and softball — within walking distance of an ice cream parlor. Email: CooperD@northjersey.com

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Dave Astor is a freelance columnist for The Montclair Times. His weekly column humorously comments on local news.

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Rob Errera lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and two rescued dogs. The award-winning writer has worked as a writer, musician, restaurant reviewer, restaurant manager, farm worker, factory janitor, convenience store clerk and burger flipper, among other things, and has been writing a general “life according to Rob” column for Wayne Today and Passaic Valley Today since 1990.

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Bruce Lowry is the assistant editorial page editor of the Herald News. A Louisiana native, Lowry is an award-winning editorial writer and columnist. He is a former sports writer, and served previously as commentary and book editor for The Anniston (Ala.) Star. His 2003 essay, “A Handful of Heroes,” about former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, won the national award given by the Association of Opinion Page Editors. Lowry has been a member of the Herald News’ editorial board since 2005.

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Nancy Rubenstein is a former executive editor of North Jersey Media Group who has retired and lives in Cedar Grove.

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Holly Stewart lives in Hewitt and is a long-time area resident. She is a frequent writer about the environment and politics involving the New Jersey Highlands.

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Victoria Chalk began her column in 1996. She has worked in many communications-related industries, including television, advertising, and the New Jersey Film Commission, in addition to teaching full-time and raising three children as a single mom.

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Ed Flynn has been writing his weekly column for North Jersey Media Group’s community newspapers for more than 35 years. Prior to retiring, he was an account executive and creative director at several leading New York City advertising agencies, an editor at McGraw-Hill and a newspaperman. He was born in New York City and grew up in Bergenfield. He is also a World War II veteran.

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Jay P. Granat is a psychotherapist with a focus on sports psychology. He is the founder of www.stayinthezone.com.

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Linda Lynwander is a Ridgewood resident.

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Betsy Murphy, a Ridgewood resident since 1971, has been writing her column for The Ridgewood News since 1994. Murphy’s commentary is a bold-name column of who’s-doing-what, who’s-going-where, what’s-going-on in the village. It’s a fun and witty way to keep up with the neighbors.

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Sitav Nabi is a sophomore at Cedar Grove High School and is the news editor of her school newspaper. Her first publication was an essay submitted to Teenink, a national teen magazine, at the age of 13. Since then, her science articles, opinion essays, poems and short stories have been published in print publications such as Amateur Astronomy magazine, AZteen magazine, TeenVoices and recently, the Your Space column of the Verona-Cedar Grove Times. She lives in Cedar Grove with her parents and sister.

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Gene Newman, a Parsippany resident, provides a humorous look at life as it was and as it is now.

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Jennifer Botkin Phillips is a speaker, a personal coach, a former talk radio show host and former television host. The author of “Nice Girls Don’t Get Raped,” she has taught adult education for over 20 years on the topic of speaking up, and is writing a book on the same topic. Phillips’ work has been featured in newspapers coast to coast and she has made guest appearances in both radio and television. She writes a blog at www.jenleetalk.blogspot.com.

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Gregory Rummo is a businessman-journalist. He has been writing newspaper columns and feature-length articles since the 1980s. Two anthologies of his published columns entitled, “The View from the Grass Roots,” and “The View from the Grass Roots – Another Look,” are available from Amazon.com.

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Tom Sullivan, a seasoned journalist, began to pen his opinions and observations about Clifton and its residents for Clifton Journal more than 25 years ago.

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John Cichowski has uncovered flaws in North Jersey’s transportation system and provoked safety reforms statewide since he became the Road Warrior in 2003. He was news director for WPAT radio and a news writer for CBS radio and TV before joining The Record in 1982. He received a National Headliners award for column writing in 2007 and his work has been honored by both civic groups and state and national media organizations. He is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Alfred P. Doblin, the editorial page editor of The Record, writes a twice-weekly column as well as editorials, both of which have been recognized with state and national awards. He has moderated candidate debates and community forums since joining North Jersey Media Group in 2000 and appears regularly on television news programs. Doblin, a graduate of Long Island University, also teaches at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

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Jimmy Margulies became The Record’s editorial cartoonist in 1990 after working at The Houston Post and Journal Newspapers of Maryland and Virginia. His award-winning cartoons appear in newspapers and Web sites around the state and are syndicated by King Features. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he has appeared on network and local TV news programs.

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Charles Stile takes a hard and tough look at the political machinations in Bergen and Passaic counties and down in Trenton. The column appears every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, with the Sunday column being a grab bag of political gossip from across the region.

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Kevin DeMarrais has been the eyes and ears of North Jersey consumers for 15 years. His column, Your Money’s Worth, runs in Business on Sundays and Wednesdays, with the Wednesday installment based on his blog and reader comments. DeMarrais has been named the state’s top business writer three times by the Society of Professional Journalists. A graduate of Columbia University, he previously did public relations work for the U.S. Olympic Committee and was vice president of a database company.

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Peter Grad, editor of the Op-Ed Page and Sunday Opinion section, writes the weekly PC Guy column for the Business pages. In his 25 years at The Record, he also wrote the first software reviews for the paper, designed its first page to appear on the Web and produced The Computer Tutor column. Grad is a CCNY graduate.

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Harvy Lipman has been covering philanthropy since 1999. He spent more than seven years as director of special projects at the Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington before joining The Record as a senior writer in 2006. He also spent 15 years at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y. in various writing and editing positions, including running the newspaper’s Capitol bureau for four years.

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Randy Neumann, a Ridgewood resident, is a certified financial planner with offices in Paramus.

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Compiled by Bryan La Placa, Back in the Day reprints local news as it was originally reported in Suburban Trends.

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Pat Restaino is a former high school guidance counselor and consults with parents in college planning. His column answers questions and offers strategies for students applying to college.

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Gene Myers is Suburban Trends Living editor and a proud father. His columns deal with the ebb and flow of modern family life.

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Before her foray into journalism, Tracy Beckerman was a writer and producer in the television industry. Her numerous honors for writing include the prestigious Writer’s Guild of America award, a CLIO, an International Film and Television award, and a New York Emmy. She is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the National Writer’s Union.

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Gina M. Mahon writes about gardening for Pascack Valley Community Life. Her love of nature, and especially plants, has been with her for as long as she can remember.

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Kevin DeMarrais has been the eyes and ears of North Jersey consumers for 15 years. His column, Your Money’s Worth, runs in Business on Sundays and Wednesdays, with the Wednesday installment based on his blog and reader comments. DeMarrais has been named the state’s top business writer three times by the Society of Professional Journalists. A graduate of Columbia University, he previously did public relations work for the U.S. Olympic Committee and was vice president of a database company.

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Raymond A. Edel began working at The Record in 1982. From computer system analysis to writing local features, Ray has worn many hats during his 25-plus-year tenure at The Record. Presently, he holds the title of calendar listings editor for The Record and the Herald News features department. In charge of the daily and weekly listings and TV pages, Ray also writes and edits TV best bets. Since 1994, Ray has written a weekly radio column that appears in The Record's Friday “Better Living” section and the Herald News' Friday "Life" section.

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Robert Feldberg has been writing about Broadway and off-Broadway theater for The Record for 27 years. He’s a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. A native of Brooklyn, he graduated from New York University.

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Kendra Recht attends Ramsey High School.

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Susan Leigh Sherrill has a degree in French and Italian Literature from Trinity College, Hartford, but her first love has always been all things related to food, cooking and entertaining. Early in her career, she worked in restaurants and hotels from Maine to Florida — including The Plaza Hotel in New York City — before opening her own business in Ridgewood — Village Green Café and Caterers — in 1989. In 2000, Susan sold the successful restaurant and embarked upon a second career in community newspapers, becoming editor of The Ridgewood News in the fall of 2001. She subsequently served as food editor, then food and entertainment editor for (201) Magazine prior to becoming food editor for The Record in September, 2010. Susan is a professional member of the James Beard Foundation, the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association and Montclair Editors and Writers. She lives — and cooks — in Montclair, N.J. with her husband, photographer Ted Axelrod, and her son.

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Elisa Ung has been The Record’s restaurant reviewer and food writer since September 2007. She writes a weekly Sunday column, The Corner Table, on North Jersey dining. Her reviews have won two New Jersey Press Association awards. She is a native of California and a graduate of the University of Southern California, and she spent eight years as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.