BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Brookdale Elementary School recognized Autism Awareness Day by having an online, interactive classroom lesson Friday, April 7. Because it was an online presentation, all classes could participate as one. Sunday, April 2, was the actual date of World Autism Day this year. The lesson was created by resource teacher Jason Triano. Its subject […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Watsessing Elementary School fourth-graders of Rachel Mazetta celebrated with a pizza party on Friday, April 7. The occasion was for being the class to raise the most money in school for the Valerie Fund. Mazetta’s students raised $142 by dropping coins into a piggy bank. The school, altogether, collected $549. The charity was […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge Community Concerts presented a program by organist Eric Plutz on Sunday, March 27, at the Glen Ridge Congregational Church. Plutz is the university organist at Princeton University. The program was audience-friendly, Plutz said in the reception following his 70-minute performance, and he said this was on purpose. Although unmentioned in […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — John Crecco, the former Bloomfield mayor who died in Atlanta last week at the age of 96, was remembered during a Funeral Mass at Sacred Heart Church on Monday, April 10. Father Michael Rodak, of the Paterson Archdiocese, in his homily called Crecco “a living tribute to his faith.” “He loved God and […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Donald Jervis, a former Bloomfield fire captain, pleaded “no contest” in a Wisconsin courtroom Thursday, April 6, to four charges of child pronography and is expected to receive a prison sentence of 16 years next month. Jervis, 53, who retired from the Bloomfield Fire Department in August 2015 and moved to Kenosha, WI., […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Enlisting the effort of its students, Fairview Elementary School recently raised $2,500 for the American Heart Association. The students received small toys from the AHA in return for the donations they brought in. Their effort began March 7, and finished Monday, April 3, when the kids had the opportunity to promote a health […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Investors Savings Bank presented Foley Field Foundation with a symbolic check for $100,000 at the Bloomfield Board of Education meeting, Tuesday, March 28. A press conference had been held earlier in the day at the Civic Center to formally announce the 2015 donation. The money will help construct a community-activities building at the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — At the Monday council meeting, Township Administrator Matthew Watkins displayed a powerpoint presentation on the 2017 budget and there was good news. Watkins said for the first time in many years, the property value of Bloomfield homes is not decreasing. The graph he showed was for seven years. It was the first year […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Not that a party needs a better reason than pizza and friends to happen, but a pizza party held at Fairview Elementary School on Friday, March 24, had a special reason and it happened in the third-grade class of teacher Deana Scura. For the second year in a row, Fairview Elementary students collected […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield residents will be paying $15.96 more a year on the average-assessed home of $270,700, according to Township Administrator Matthew Watkins. Watkins spoke at the Township Council meeting Monday evening when the preliminary budget resolution was approved. He said the budget “represents another lean year while taking into account the policies of the […]