GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Gas Lamp Players/Teens are set to stage four performances of the musical “Legally Blonde” next week at Ridgewood Avenue School. The show is being directed by Gas Lamp Artistic Director Kristy Graves. According to Graves in an interview earlier this week, she and Glen Ridge resident Heather Ballantyne had chosen “Legally […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Democrats swept into municipal office on Election Day along with two of three Board of Education candidates endorsed by Mayor Michael Venezia. In the municipal elections, the uncertified results from the Office of the Essex County Clerk had the 1st Ward being taken by incumbent Jenny Mundell with 2,013 votes followed by […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Incumbent Councilman Dan Murphy will be joined by challenger and fellow-CCC nominee Debbie Mans on the Glen Ridge Council. Both seats are for three years. Incumbent Arthur Dawson finished a distant third in the balloting. The uncertified results show Mans receiving 1,146 votes; Murphy, 1,082; and Dawson, 397. In a telephone interview, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Berkeley Elementary School fifth-graders were treated to a visit on Friday, Nov. 3, from the senior naturalist of the Essex County Park System. The naturalist, David Alexander, came with objects and photographs to illuminate local ecosystems and set up four discovery stations for the students to explore. Sitting on the classroom floor, the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Former Bloomfield High School teacher and running coach Leo Donaldson appeared with his husband and co-defendant, Bradley Donaldson, in Newark Superior Court before Judge Richard Sules on Friday, Oct. 27. It was a brief hearing. Sules said he understood that there was new electronic information. Leo Donaldson’s attorney, Joshua Forsman, standing in for […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A former Glen Ridge elementary school principal, after years of lobbying state legislators, has seen a bill protecting seniors signed into law. Maureen Persi, the former principal of Forest and Linden avenues school, lobbied to have police notified if abuse, neglect or exploitation occurred to residents of senior housing. The bill […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Three Bloomfield Board of Education incumbents and two challengers met in a debate Monday evening, Oct. 30, at Bloomfield Middle School. The event was sponsored by the Bloomfield Home and School Association and the candidates, after introducing themselves, responded to audience questions. The incumbents are Emily Smith and Ellen Rogers, the current […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield registered voters will have the opportunity to vote for the three ward seats on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Two Democrat incumbents and four challengers, three Republicans and a Democrat, are running. The incumbents are 1st Ward Councilwoman Jenny Mundell and 2nd Ward Councilman Nicholas Joanow. The challengers are Republicans Dave Tucker, 1st […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Two Bloomfield actors serious about community theater are currently preparing their latest roles in Ken Ludwig’s “The Fox in the Fairway,” to be presented at the Nutley Little Theatre in Nutley. Township residents Nelson Valentin and Jim Simpson have appeared numerous times at this well-known local theater. For Valentin, in his debut at […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Freeman Gardens became the home for honey bees this past year thanks to the efforts of Eric Hanan, a borough resident and professional beekeeper. Hanan is a retired producer for the TV news program “20/20.” “I wanted to start a business,” he said recently at the gardens. “After 20 years of chasing […]