The Bloomfield Public Library presented another of its monthly music performances on Saturday afternoon, May 18. This latest, without doubt the most sophisticated and playful fare yet, had jazz harmonica player, Yvonnick Prene, teamed with pianist, Samuel Lerner, for an hour of selections which drew heavily from the wellspring of Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Brazilian […]
The Glen Ridge High School Home and School Association, and the Glen Ridge Environmental Advisory Commission, sponsored its annual Glen Ridge Eco/Arts Fair this past Saturday, May 18, along Ridgewood Avenue. The event was essentially in two sectors along Ridgewood Avenue, divided by Woodland Avenue. Northward were the arts and craft-oriented vendors and southward were […]
Parents and students celebrated the first multicultural day at Carteret Elementary School on Friday, May 9. The event was a sampling of native dress and food with much of the edibles from the family kitchen. The whole affair was coordinated by Carteret educators Susanne Mancheno, Erlinda Capollari and Gladys Avila-Navas and was held in the […]
The borough of Glen Ridge, its Kiwanis Club and the Rotary Club of Bloomfield-Glen Ridge, honored Former Mayor Stuart Patrick and all borough volunteers, on Wednesday, May 8, at the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge. The event was emceed by Paul Weissenberger, the Kiwanis Club president-elect. This celebration of volunteerism is a Kiwanis Club tradition […]
An opportunity for residents to have knives sharpened, sweater holes darned, small appliances set working again, lamps rewired or other things fixed was offered by the Glen Ridge Environmental Advisory Committee, at the Ridgewood Avenue train station, on April 13. This was the second time around for the borough volunteer fix-it endeavor known as the […]
Based on data from the 2022-23 school year, Bloomfield High School has moved up in its standing among secondary schools, according to the NJ Department of Education. “NJ high school rankings based on previously released performance report data were released this morning,” Superintendent Sal Goncalves announced April 25. “Bloomfield High School has moved up 33 […]
Successful children’s author Rob Buyea, who wrote the popular “Mr. Terupt” series, visited Fairview Elementary School on Friday, April 26, and spoke to an assembly of fifth- and sixth-graders. A school-wide read-a-thon sponsored by the Fairview Home and School Association funded his appearance and Buyea, who was animated and comprehensive explaining how he became an […]
The seventh annual Freeman Gardens “Rake and Bake,” a collective effort by neighbors to prepare the bucolic site for another season, was held Saturday, April 27, and it was startling to behold. Approaching the site, with the garden gates along Hawthorne Avenue thrown open, everyone could see that the verdant rose plants, expectant of spring, […]
An exhibit of watercolors by borough resident Barbara Messenger, at the Glen Ridge train station, is a lovely display of 16 seascapes in muted tones, some with swaths of untouched paper. A number of the compositions are dominating sandscapes dividing the sea and horizon from a house or two and trees. In “Island Picnic, N. […]
In the plaza of the Bloomfield Public Library on Saturday, April 20, the township celebrated Earth Day with about a dozen organizations represented. Not all were foremost ecologically inclined as the Bloomfield High School Jazz Band performed under the direction of Natalie Kerr. Even the Bloomfield Police department attended with an electric vehicle and also […]