BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School baseball team, which finished with a 9-19 record this spring, featured five players who earned all-Super Essex Conference–American Division honors, as selected by the division coaches. First team: Nico Ong, senior catcher/outfielder. Second team: Tyler Bell, junior second baseman/pitcher. Brandon Piacenza, junior third baseman/pitcher. Honorable mention: Daniel Murawinski, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Three Bloomfield High School softball players earned all–Super Essex Conference–Liberty Division honors this season, as selected by the division coaches. First team: Hope Kornstein, senior first baseman. Honorable mention: Isabella Olaya, senior third baseman. Emily Tice, senior catcher/outfielder. Bloomfield, under longtime head coach Bob Mayer, finished with an 11-14 record this season. […]
ORANGE, NJ — June 11 was a great day at Monte Irvin Orange Park for the Orange Week 2022 Color Festival. All enjoyed Heywood Avenue’s Color Run, the East Orange School District’s STEM Festival, vendors, free raffles, zumba, yoga, the Mighty Marching Tornadoes, Heywood’s cheerleaders, Orange’s step team demonstration and the Orange Fire Department, with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — June 7 was a monumental day in the Bloomfield Fire Department’s nearly 139-year history as the organization welcomed its first female career firefighter. Congratulations to Stephanie Orgueira-Aponte on her first day protecting the residents of Bloomfield. Orgueira-Aponte recently completed a rigorous training curriculum at the Passaic County Fire Academy, as well as […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Former Columbia High School head football coach Dave Curtin, who died at age 58 in August 2016 after a courageous battle with cancer, was one of several inductees into this year’s Essex County Coaches Football Association hall of fame. The inductees were honored at halftime during the Paul Robeson All-Star Football […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School track-and-field contingent gave good efforts at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Group 4 state championships at Franklin High School in Somerset on Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11. On the girls side, senior Alyssa Valentin took 11th place with a throw of 102 feet, 3 […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School track-and-field contingent gave good efforts at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Group 4 state championships at Franklin High School in Somerset on Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11. On the girls side, sophomore Madison Stevens took eighth place in the shot put with a […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Our Lady of Sorrows track-and-field team recently closed the season with a makeup meet with a few athletes who competed often in unusual events. Miguel Aylward completed the season undefeated in the boys third- and fourth-grade shot put. Seventh-grader Alfonso Dunmeyer secured a fourth-place finish in the TurboJav. Nora D’Andrea, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School senior Olivia Prescott took second place in the girls discus and third place in the shot put at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Group 4 state track-and-field championships at Franklin High School in Somerset on Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11. Prescott threw 128 […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep track-and-field team last week completed one meet and competed in another. On Monday, June 6, the Pirates took first place with 120.25 points in the Essex County individual championships held at Woodman Field in Montclair. The meet started on Thursday, May 19, and Friday, May 20, but, […]