BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Essex Opioid Task Force held its second awareness walk on Saturday morning, Nov. 2. Beginning in Newark and passing through Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair, Verona and culminating at Caldwell College with a luncheon. The starting point, at Bloomfield Fire Headquarters on Municipal Plaza, was hosted by Hazel House, a cooperative, sober-living […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A good Samaritan has made a $1,000 donation to pay off the outstanding lunch bills of 62 Berkeley Elementary School students, according to Principal Natashia Baxter. She said she was recently contacted by a Christian ministry and told the debt for the students’ free or reduced lunches would be paid in full […]
NUTLEY, NJ — What’s not to like about a children’s book inspired by potty training? Nutley author and illustrator Ilene Dudek thinks there is a lot to like — and learn — from tales triggered by the experiences of her two sons as they were growing up. The answer to the question, “What if an […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The fifth annual 5K Spirit Run benefiting Mt. Olivet Cemetery was held Saturday morning, Oct. 26. The weather was perfect for running and very much unlike race day last year, when a nor’easter caused a cancellation of the USATF-NJ sanctioned event. According to Nancy Plate, the race director, about 160 people registered […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — At the Bloomfield Public Library on Saturday, Oct. 26, the Independent Press interviewed six of the seven Bloomfield Board of Education candidates competing for three open seats in next week’s election. One candidate was unable to attend due to health reasons. The interviews were undertaken to help determine the three candidates this […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge voters will be heard on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, with three candidates contesting two, three-year council seats. In recent interviews with The Glen Ridge Paper, challenger Richard Law and incumbents Peter Hughes and David Lefkovits spoke out. Law and Hughes have been endorsed by the Glen Ridge Civic […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Home and School Council sponsored a debate last week for the six local Board of Education candidates vying for three seats in the Nov. 5 election. Before an audience of 20 at the middle school, the candidates sat at a table in alphabetical order; they included challenger Dan Anderson, incumbent […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Rachel Mazzetta’s third-grade science class at Watsessing Elementary School became a paleontology lab on Monday, Oct. 21, as students learned about fossils. The hands-on lesson required pupils to visit four classroom discovery stations, with two being especially challenging. One required students to uncover the laminated photograph of a fossil, buried inside a […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Kiwanis Club of Glen Ridge held its sixth annual OctoberFeast at the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge on Monday, Oct. 21. With tickets available at the door, hundreds of people came to sample specialties offered by two dozen local restaurants, wine merchants and bakeries, raising money for Kiwanis-supported charities. In […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A new Scouting troop for girls has been organized at the Church on the Green. According to Scoutmaster Thomas Szybist, the traditional Boy Scouts of America organization changed its name in February to Scouts BSA to allow for the creation of troops for girls. This expansion was done, he said, to reach […]