BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Independent Press is continuing its profiling of Bloomfield Board of Education candidates in the November elections. Profiled already were incumbents Shane Berger and Jill Fischman, and challengers Djanna Hill-Tall, Laura Izurieta and Lillian Mancheno. All are running for three, three-year seats. Not yet profiled are challengers Catherine Bumpus, Eileen Murray and Gladys […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Educational Foundation is in the process of reviewing its bylaws and will consider term-limits for its voting board members, according to longtime member Madeline Wollner. “We don’t have one now,” she said recently in a telephone interview in reference to term limits for the board members. “Now it’s a lifetime commitment […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Labor Day weekend, at least the Saturday right before the holiday, looked to be a ho-hum day at the Glen Ridge Community Pool. Not many people were there, even with the pool closing for the season in two days. This may have been caused by a threat from an off-coast hurricane that […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Three-hundred laptop computers — Chromebooks — were distributed to two groups of Bloomfield Middle School students during August to initiate a pilot program which will link the students to their teachers and to students around the world. The pilot program launches an effort by the Bloomfield School District to equip all students with […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge painter Theresa DeSalvio, who created an illustrated book about heroin addiction and then turned the book into a 17-minute film, had the film screened last weekend at the Hudson Valley International Film Festival in the documentary category. DeSalvio’s book, “Tales: A Cautionary Story about Heroin Addiction,” was a series of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Center Alliance had its second block party of the summer along Washington Street on Saturday, Aug. 27. The street is a good place for a block party. It is tucked away into the epicenter of the downtown Bloomfield district, which is the focal point of efforts by the BCA for generating […]
Discarded culvert impedes progress on the trail of a pocket park
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A discarded culvert is in the way of fully completing the extension of the Morris Canal pocket park, located on Oak Tree Lane. A culvert is a concrete water pipe placed under roadbeds. The origin of this partially-buried culvert is unknown, although the Garden State Parkway is a stone’s throw away. The effort […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield has filed a notice of appeal contesting the June 3 jury verdict awarding $2.9 million to the former owner of the land containing the historic train station and tunnel on Lackawanna Place. The .6 acres of land is a slope that rises 13 feet from street level to abut the NJ Transit […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An oral health clinic for children and at-risk pregnant women will open in Bloomfield on Monday, Aug. 29. The clinic is the KinderSmile Oral Health Center. It will be located at 10 Broad Street, on the ground floor of the Leo Building, at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue. The center will provide dental services […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The other day, Bloomfield resident Constance “Dottie” Genoni was sitting in the backyard of her Foster Street neighbor, Eileen Rush. She and Eileen were having a discussion about their joint birthday party next week: Was Dottie planning a swim in Rush’s pool to mark the occasion? Dottie didn’t think so. She said that […]