BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Read Across America, a celebration of reading, was recognized by Bloomfield elementary schools last week with a schedule of activities promoting childhood literacy. The weeklong festivity commemorates the March 2 birthday of children’s story author Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. First responders, secondary school students and local celebrities visited the elementary schools […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A Bloomfield playwright has written a play about the 1921 destruction, by white rioters, of the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla. Greenwood was the prosperous northern area of Tulsa where the residents were black. Its story is a little-known chapter in American race relations that playwright Cilque Brown has brought to life with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield will be well-represented in the upcoming 16th annual Garden State Film Festival as two township residents have entered the competition and will have their work screened before a wide audience. The two filmmakers — Francesco Nuzzi and Tom Ryan — are both young, ambitious, and still learning their trade, hoping to someday […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Instances of mail theft or attempted theft have been reported in Essex, Union, Bergen, Middlesex and Passaic counties, according to the US Postal Service. Street mailboxes are the targets. The theft is worked with a bead of glue placed inside the mailbox flap to snare envelopes before they fall into the mailbox chamber. […]
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 […]