GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The holiday season began officially in Glen Ridge this past Sunday, Dec. 3, with the 60th annual holiday tree lighting on the Town Hall lawn and a singing performance by the Gas Lamp Players under the direction of Kristy Graves. The tree is a Norway spruce adorned with 7,525 lights, according to […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Prognosticators of the weather are offering conflicting forecasts for the coming months. Some say it will be a mild winter, while others promise plenty of snow and frigid temperatures. But Anthony Nesto, director of the Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Parks, has heard it all. And he also checks with another authority […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — She sang at the fifth annual Bloomfield Most Talented Competition on Tuesday, Nov. 21. And although not a finalist, Carteret Elementary School third-grader Zoe Love deserved a prize for a little girl’s triumph over adversity. The competition, hosted by the Bloomfield Cultural Commission at Bloomfield High School, attracted 31 elementary, high school […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Forty years ago this coming week, on Saturday, Dec. 3, 1977, the Glen Ridge High School football team won the Section 2 Group 1 state championship by defeating Kenilworth High School, 18-12. Histories of the event have recorded that GRHS students who witnessed a thrilling comeback to cap the victory cheered themselves […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School Key Club held its annual Thanksgiving luncheon for seniors on Tuesday, Nov. 21, in the high school cafeteria. Thanksgiving has to be the most traditional holiday on the calendar and as in past years, Key Club members, with the assistance of Builders Club members from the middle school, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The state Department of Education has denied the application for a charter school in Bloomfield. The name of the school was to have been the Bloomfield and East Orange Conservatory Charter School and it was intended to serve a middle-school population from the Bloomfield and East Orange school districts. DOE Commissioner Kimberly Harrington […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield will be required to test the drinking water of 60 homes every six months for levels of lead because a recent test of 35 homes found four with levels higher than permitted federal limits. Previously to these results, the township was required to test 30 homes every three years. The testing increase […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Junior Statesmen, which is a Bloomfield High School club for students interested in a career in politics, provided an after-school dinner for Bloomfield veterans on Monday, Nov. 13. The event was held in the teachers’ dining room at the school. According to the club’s advisor, Keri Giannotti, the purpose of the meal […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Security measures for the Ashenfelter 8K and Tom Fleming Mile races on Thanksgiving Day will be increased in the aftermath of the New York City incident earlier this month when a truck was purposely driven onto a bicycle path along the Hudson River, killing eight cyclists. The driver, who is suspected of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The NJ State League of Municipalities has announced that Mayor Michael Venezia has been elected to its executive board. Venezia was elected Nov. 17 by NJ mayors. According to Michael Darcy, the NJSLM executive director, Venezia had been recommended by the outgoing board president, West Caldwell Mayor Joseph Tempesta Jr., who said Venezia […]