BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The township held an electronic recycling event Saturday, May 6, in conjunction with “Big Truck Day,” combining environmental awareness and a meet-and-greet with municipal employees surrounded by their specialized machinery. The venue was the parking lot of Universal Technical Institute, 1515 Broad St. The event was previously held at the Brookdale ShopRite, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — In response to the devastating, Feb. 6 earthquake in their native country, members of the borough’s Turkish community held a fundraiser and were uplifted by its success. Their effort, “A Turkish Night,” occurred April 22, at the Glen Ridge Congregational Church. More than 200 people attended and $42,000 was raised for […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The rescue of a woman from her native Haiti, through the Dominican Republic, to Bloomfield, was recently undertaken by the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, and the Congregational Church of Montclair. The woman, Sarah Exantus, had to escape after she refused to steal for gang members who threatened her. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The London plane tree was lowered into the ground, an Arbor Day symbol for many more that are being planted across the borough. It had been anticipated that 55 trees, including more than two dozen elms and lindens, would be planted along Hillside Avenue this past Friday, April 28, Arbor Day. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — According to Michele Bruhn, a member of the Brookdale Reformed Church, raccoons love warm attics, garbage cans and being close to people. Unfortunately, all are available at the church whose domain she overlooks as property chairwoman. “It’s an ongoing problem,” she said recently of her nocturnal invaders, most likely from contiguous Brookdale […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Public Library Board of Trustees has appointed Rudd Court resident Tina Payne as its newest member. Payne told The Glen Ridge Paper that as a girl growing up poor, her hometown public library left her with a lasting impression. Becoming a trustee, she said, was her way of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — George Ricci, commander of the Bloomfield Police Department Detective Bureau, was elevated to police chief at a ceremony held in the Oak View Elementary School gymnasium, on Thursday, April 6. The appointment marked a passage for the township: The police department is again commanded by a chief. Seven years ago, amid legal […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Police Department has recently instituted a program providing assistance to parents or caregivers of residents whose cognitive abilities or medical conditions would make it difficult for them, if lost or wandering, to return home safely. The program, “Take Me Home,” provides confidential information to the police to reconnect […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ – A former Glen Ridge resident who returned to her native Turkey with her daughter at the end of December, five weeks before an unfathomable earthquake struck the country, has assisted in the relief effort and published her account on her website. Eda Uzuncakara, formerly of Appleton Road, spoke from Turkey to […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – A Bloomfield Boy Scout who has constructed raised garden beds for disabled seniors says he hopes to receive the rank of Eagle Scout for an effort he undertook in the memory of his great-grandfather, a Polish Army corporal who served in World War II. The garden beds, ADA-compliant so that the soil […]