BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield School District held its 41st annual elementary school chess championships on Saturday, May 5, at Fairview Elementary School. The tournament was under the direction of Fairview sixth-grade language arts teacher and chess club adviser, Mary Donovan, with the assistance of the Fairview Home & School Association. The championship is traditionally held […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A musical debut of sorts took place at Bloomfield Middle School on Sunday, May 6. In a scheduled concert by the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra, a member of the orchestra performed on a mandobass. Easy to spot, the mandobass is the big, upright bass standing on an end pin in a field of handheld […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The grassroots and defunct “Ice and Iron” proposal, which sought to rehabilitate the unused track bed of the former Boonton train line into a pedestrian and bicycle pathway, has resurfaced with some clout. The old line runs from Montclair, through Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, Belleville, Newark, to Jersey City. On May 1, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Brookdale Elementary School students celebrated Earth Day on Thursday, April 26, by planting flower seedlings. Each class participated and at around 1 p.m. the kindergarteners filed out the front door and down the steps. A number of parents waited on the lawn. The children were paired off and given trowels. The ground […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge Police Department officers apprehended two suspects traveling with $116,000 in checks allegedly stolen from a borough mailbox. The alleged theft and arrest occurred on so-called “tax day,” April 17. Many of the checks were addressed to the IRS. According to GRPD Capt. Sean Quinn, in a telephone interview earlier this […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The fourth annual “Senior Prom,” sponsored by the Bloomfield Board of Health, was held Friday afternoon, April 27, at the Knights of Columbus hall on State Street. Residents from the township and Glen Ridge fed on a wide assortment of foods donated by 18 local restaurants while listening to Vince “The Prince” […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School has a nationally ranked fencer. Eleventh-grader Gareth Spiteri, 16, began the sport with the township recreation department during the summer after his promotion from the third grade at Oak View Elementary School. He liked the sport enough to take lessons that paid off. For the last three years, he has […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield College students taking a first-year writing course have been uncovering township and school history that may go onto the college website commemorating the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the school. The students are in three classes being taught Assistant Professor Nora McCook, who is in her first year at BC. What her […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Despite the April 10 Appellate Court ruling unfavorable to his client, Bloomfield Duval Corp., attorney Anthony DellaPelle is confident that once the facts are again heard in court before a new jury, the verdict will be the same and his client will prevail. The Appellate Court had agreed with the township of Bloomfield […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A June 21 trial jury in Newark Superior Court is scheduled for four active or retired Bloomfield Police Department officers who are suing the township for alleged discriminatory treatment because they were military reservists. Michael McCracken, Hector Cartagena, Anthony Argento and Michael Frazzano have brought suit against Bloomfield and a host of former […]