BLOOMFIELD, NJ — With very little snow accumulation this winter, the Department of Public Works and Park Maintenance is busy with work ordinarily delayed until spring. Due to the large number of key retirements in the last year, the department has been reorganized, with Frank Simone being given the newly created position of general maintenance […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Brick-and-mortar progress was seen throughout 2019 in the township. This included work on Montgomery Street, where the New Jersey Turnpike Authority rebuilt the parkway overpass and redirected traffic for a good part of the summer. Another Bloomfield building was demolished, this one at Broad Street and Maple Avenue, to make way for […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Nick Zois arrives at the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Washington Street six or seven times a week, just to pass the time in the sun or shade. At this corner is where he ran his business, Roxy Florist, and had eight tenants, until a fire destroyed everything on Tuesday, Jan. 21, […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Skating in the Garden State Roller Derby league with the bad-girl moniker Fibonasty, Glen Ridge resident Doris Jeannotte loves roller derby for its camaraderie and sweat. Temporarily transplanted from Montreal, Jeannotte is a visiting scholar at Montclair State University, where she is researching the teaching of mathematics in elementary schools. She […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Calling the alleged actions of Bloomfield resident and NJ Transit bus driver Fayola Howard “horrific” in the death of a passenger, Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler said at her Feb. 24 arraignment that Howard would not be allowed to post bail. She entered a plea of not guilty. Howard, 34, a 2005 […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Berkeley Elementary School has received a $3,000 Bloomfield Educational Foundation grant for a recess STEM program for second and third graders. The seven-week program is conducted by the Montclair Learning Center. Each session is 30 minutes long. On Friday, Feb. 14, Megan McGlone’s third grade class, working from kits, assembled remote-control cars. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — With state and Essex County tax authorities having ordered the recently completed revaluation of Bloomfield residential and commercial properties, township administrator Matthew Watkins said last week there was concern by some residents that an increase in property value would mean higher taxes. But that is not necessarily so, he said, and taxes […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School Thespian Society will present “The Drowsy Chaperone” as its annual winter musical production on Feb. 27, 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m. and March 1 at 2 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The show, a recollection of a 1928 musical in the mind of its narrator, has […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Students in the Seniors Studio Art Class, a Glen Ridge Recreation Department activity meeting Tuesday mornings at the Ridgewood Avenue train station, are having a show at Crane’s Mill in West Caldwell. Five students’ work, as well as that of instructor Khrystyna Khristianova, is represented. It is a sizable show, with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Schools Superintendent Sal Goncalves has received, in a congratulatory letter from the New Jersey Department of Education dated Thursday, Jan. 30, the results of a comprehensive evaluation deeming Bloomfield to be a “high performing district.” The achievement is a first for the district since the evaluation process, known as New Jersey Quality […]