GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Rare Disease Day, a worldwide awareness event focusing on the 300 million individuals living with a rare disease, was first observed on Feb. 29, 2008, a leap year. This year, however, not being a leap year, it was observed on Monday, Feb. 28. “It’s the rarest day,” Glen Ridge resident Julie […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Perceiving Belleville senior citizens to be underserved, Belleville officials are placing this group of residents front and center. “We’ve been focusing a lot on senior initiatives,” Mayor Michael Melham told the Belleville Post in a recent interview in his office. “When I was elected, I rode the senior bus.” Elected in 2018, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nick Pascarella took the helm as president of the Nutley Little Theatre on July 1, 2019 — less than a year before the pandemic made its unexpected entrance. “I had a few months pre-COVID and (then the theater’s programming) came crashing to an end,” he recently told the Nutley Journal. Although the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Although never formally accepting a 2021 award from a collection of New Jersey forestry services for her effort over the years, Glen Ridge Shade Tree Commission President Elizabeth Baker is no shrinking violet when it comes to extolling the beautiful necessity of an arboreal canopy in the borough. A former councilwoman, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The curtain goes up tonight, Feb. 24, at Bloomfield High School on the rock musical “Rent.” Based on Puccini’s “La Boheme” and winner of the 1996 Tony Award for best musical and Pulitzer Prize for drama, the story focuses on a struggling group of bohemians living in New York City’s East Village […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School club members provided patients in a local hospice with love and affection this past Valentine’s Day. Coordinated by history teacher Rachel Thomas, who estimated a combined effort of as many as 15 clubs, cards were handmade by students for individuals at Compassionate Care Hospice in Bloomfield. According to Thomas, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Lunch Box, a familiar destination for hungry students just across Belleville Avenue from Bloomfield High School, has closed its door. Owner John Getchell, a BHS graduate, Class of 1982, said that, because of the pandemic, help was harder to find. According to Getchell, he and Anthony Lauro, owner of Anthony’s Cheesecake and […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge is looking at multiple ways to make streets safer for its residents. Chief among them is an application for a New Jersey Department of Transportation Safe Routes to Schools grant aimed at motivating children to walk and bike to school. According to borough Director of Planning and Development Erik […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Lockdowns and forced deprivation can be a powerful incentive for artists to produce work of significance. Historically noted, there was an abundance of paintings created by artists working in Paris during World War II and Nazi occupation, yet much of it remained in studios until the occupation ended. But with the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School began its Saturday Academy, now in its 10th year, on the morning of Jan. 29. The sessions, which run for approximately three hours divided into three, 50-minute sessions, are held for six weeks and provide Carteret students with programs that may not be part of the regular curriculum. The […]