Getting the garden ready for winter

Getting the garden ready for winter

Preparations for winter were undertaken at the Benson Street Garden, on Saturday morning, Oct. 12, with volunteers from different corners of the borough coming together to pull stubborn tendrils and harvest vegetables. The workers included confirmation candidates at Sacred Heart Church, the Glen Ridge High School Girls’ Club and the Glen Ridge Environmental Board. Councilwoman […]

Bloomfield celebrates Columbus Day

Bloomfield celebrates Columbus Day

The embattled holiday of Columbus Day was observed for the 28th time in Bloomfield on Monday morning, Oct. 14. Notwithstanding the controversy surrounding the sailor, the ceremony on The Green, at the Columbus Memorial, captures a small-town spirit that is sort of remarkable. Sponsored by UNICO, an Italian service organization, the event recognizes not only […]

Resident pushing town for solar panels

Resident pushing town for solar panels

During public comments, at the Monday, Oct. 7, Bloomfield Council meeting, Ted Glick, a founding member of the Bloomfield Citizens Solar Campaign, asked the governing body the status of his group’s advocacy for the installation of solar panels at two municipal properties. Responding, Mayor Ted Gamble said he hoped to have an answer by the […]

Author connects science and the brain

Author connects science and the brain

There were always two sides to his life, George Musser said at a Broad Street coffee counter last week. A trained scientist, Musser, 59, is also a writer and the author of “Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation,” a 2023 Farrar, Strauss and Girous publication about how the human brain sometimes reconfigures physical evidence to […]

New music director at Christ Episcopal

New music director at Christ Episcopal

Ryan Bridge has been selected as the new music director at Christ Episcopal Church. A graduate of Belleville High School, class of ‘10, Bridge attended the Manhattan School of Music for classical piano and organ, and received his masters in classical piano at Montclair State University where he also was a graduate assistant in theory […]

Honoring our Revolutionary War veterans

Honoring our Revolutionary War veterans

With an eye on the American Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Bloomfield Cemetery is considering how to observe the occasion. Cemetery Superintendent Mary Jones said one possibility may be a QR-coded tour of the gravesites of Revolutionary War veterans. There are 33 known Bloomfield Cemetery gravesites of these […]

Pastor looks back at 10 years

Pastor looks back at 10 years

The Rev. Susan Dorward, of the Brookdale Reformed Church, celebrated her 10th anniversary as its pastor July 1. On Sunday, Sept. 22, on a Zoom call, together with a member of her congregation, Marjorie Tiedemann, she shared thoughts about her Bloomfield experience with this newspaper. Dorward was chaplain for the Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat, in […]

Kids enjoy big trucks on recycling day

Kids enjoy big trucks on recycling day

The Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Park Maintenance held its annual Big Truck Day and Electronic Recycling, on Saturday, Sept. 14, in the parking lot of Universal Technical Institute, on Broad Street. It was an opportunity for residents to jettison E-wastes, including computers, TVs, VCRs and the like. For parents, there were also heavy-duty […]

Show highlights work of local artists

Show highlights work of local artists

The recreation department is exhibiting, at the Ridgewood Avenue train station until the end of October, works by four Glen Ridge artists. The show is co-curated by Stephanie Kosbuka and Megan Giulianelli. It opened Saturday, Sept. 14. “This is our first group show,” Guilianelli said at the opening. “In the past, we’ve only had one […]

Funeral home holds service for pets

Funeral home holds service for pets

Van Tassel Funeral Home, on Belleville Avenue, held its eighth annual Pet Memorial Day on Sunday, Sept. 8. The second Sunday in September is designated as National Pet Memorial Day, an observance established in 1972 by the International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories. The day has provided people with the opportunity to remember their […]