GLEN RIDGE, NJ — With race-time temperatures hovering in the teens, the annual Ashenfelter 8K and Tom Fleming Mile were run Thursday, Nov. 22, with diminished fields because of no-shows. Race director Daniel Murphy said there were 2,500 finishers for the 8K race with 618 no-shows. For the mile, 387 runners finished, with 182 no-shows. According […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Ted Glick, the Bloomfield activist who is part of a 14-day “climate fast” group in Trenton seeking to prevent approval of construction permits for natural gas facilities, said the group has been contacted by the deputy chief of staff of Gov. Phil Murphy and asked for a meeting and documentation of their concerns. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Everyone who drove through north Jersey on Thursday, Nov. 15, had a horror story after a snowfall — predicted to be mild — instead dumped upward of 7-plus inches in our area. Heading home from work through the unexpected storm, commuters needed hours to reach destinations only a short distance away. Some even […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Fairview Elementary School held an assembly Wednesday, Nov. 14, to highlight the classroom work of fourth-graders. The single-grade-level presentation was the third this school year in a monthly series highlighting classroom activity. The assembly was for an audience of family members and Fairview kindergarteners, and with the upcoming holiday, its theme was giving […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The 19th annual Ashenfelter 8K race will be run tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 22. Scheduled to start at 9 a.m., it will be preceded by the Tom Fleming Mile race at 8:15 a.m. Speaking late last week, Dan Murphy, the race director and a member of the borough council, said that about 2,000 runners […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A recently formed community organization, the Essex County Opioid Task Force, on Sunday morning, Nov. 11, held a walk along Bloomfield Avenue. The purpose of the walk, which organizers say will be an annual event, was to call attention to the deadly proliferation of opioid addiction. The first stop was at the Bloomfield […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A staging of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” by the Gas Lamp Junior Players, will begin a four-performance run tomorrow night at Ridgewood Avenue School. The musical is based on Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” made popular by the 1971 movie, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” starring Gene […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield activist Ted Glick will be undertaking a 14-day “climate fast” in Trenton in an effort to have Gov. Phil Murphy stop all construction permits for natural gas facilities. Glick’s fast was scheduled to begin yesterday, Wednesday, Nov. 7. He intends to only consume water. Preparing for the ordeal, Glick said last […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Brookdale Reformed Church was recently given a historic link to its past in the form of a small handbell. According to Pastor Susan Doward, she received a phone call mid-October from a man in Dallas named Basil Asaro. He said he was 75 and had something he believed came from the church. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Ambition, betrayal and violence will be displayed for three nights beginning this evening as the Bloomfield High School Thespian Society presents “Julius Caesar” as its fall production. Producer and director Brandon Doemling, for his fall offerings, alternates between drama, comedy or something from the classical repertoire to provide his student cast members with […]