MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The nor’easter that blew through New Jersey on March 2 left little snow, but a good deal of damage, with downed trees and power lines. Pictured, Maplewood resident Joan Crystal poses with a downed tree in front of her Courter Avenue home. The township tree at the corner of Prospect Avenue toppled […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Twenty schools from the NJ Interscholastic STEM League participated in a competition held at Bloomfield High School on Thursday, Feb. 22. It was quite a showing with five students per team working at cluttered tables while teachers and curious STEM judges roamed. The event was held in the first-floor gym called the Pit. […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge Community Concerts presented “OboeBass!” on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25, at the Congregational Church, on Ridgewood Avenue. Carrie Vecchione, a former Lincoln Street resident who graduated from Glen Ridge High School, Class of ‘77, and her husband, Rolf Erdahl, bill themselves as the only oboe/bass duo in the world. If this […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The DUI-trial acquittal of Bloomfield Municipal Judge Wilfredo Benitez was based only on the roadside observations of a NJ state trooper and not alcohol/blood level test results, which were ruled inadmissible. Benitez had been discovered asleep in the early morning hours of Nov. 12, 2016, on a Route 80 shoulder in Tenafly, by […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Parks should be done with its pothole repair work by the end of next month. “We’re out there every day with the asphalt machine,” Anthony Nesto, the department director said earlier this week. “We are repairing every pothole we can get to.” Where potholes are located […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An Essex County prosecutor told a judge on Friday, Feb. 16, that the defense counsel for former Bloomfield High School teacher and running coach Leo Donaldson has taken contradictory positions on whether a plea deal or a trial was imminent. Donaldson has been indicted on 36 counts stemming from alleged sexual contact with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School will present “Pippin” as its winter musical next week, in four performances scheduled Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 22 to 25. It will be staged in the high school auditorium. The show has a cast of 32 students including four freshmen, according to Brandon Doemling, the BHS theater instructor directing the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Chief Municipal Court Judge Wilfredo Benitez filed a formal response Feb. 9 to three ethics violation charges against him following his DUI arrest after being found asleep in his car, on a westbound shoulder of Route 80, by two NJ State Troopers. This occurred Nov. 12, 2016, in Teaneck. Included in his […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School celebrated the opening of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with a celebration of its own on Thursday, Feb. 8. The activity was festive with songs, paper flags, and promotional films on winter Olympic events, and South Korea, where PyeongChang is located. But the highlight was the appearance of an actual […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A group of Bloomfield residents participated in a “celebrity read” sponsored by the United Way on Tuesday, Feb 6. The venue was First Avenue School, in Newark, and the person who brought everyone together was former Bloomfield councilwoman Janice Litterio-Frazzano who as 1st Ward councilwoman, was known as Janice Maly. In a recent […]