GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Police Department’s application for a drone, according to Chief Sheila Byron-Lagattuta in a Dec. 15 email, was not approved. The department had been notified in June 2016, by the director of the Essex County College Public Safety Academy, Rocco Miscia Jr., that an organization called DAPS, an acronym for Drone […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — In a court hearing on Monday, Dec. 19, Newark Superior Court Judge Martin Cronin gave indicted 1st Ward Councilman Elias Chalet until Jan. 20 to make a choice: accept a trial date, or seek a plea bargain for allegedly accepting a bribe to use his political influence. Chalet is charged with official misconduct […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — At a recent meeting of the Glen Ridge Borough Council, Special Master Elizabeth McKenzie addressed state-mandated, affordable housing requirements in the borough, saying that the only two places in Glen Ridge where space exists for development are the Glen Ridge Country Club and a tract of land along Baldwin Street. However, Glen […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — At the main branch of the Bloomfield post office on Bloomfield Avenue during an especially cold morning last week, a Bing Crosby Christmas song is playing on the PA system of the warehouse in the rear of the building. The bay doors are open and delivery trucks, parked outside, are getting filled with […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Doug Wallis, the officer-in-charge at the Glen Ridge post office, said that while the holidays have brought just more of the same to the office, there are changes coming in the near future. Wallis has been a postal service career man: 42 ½ years with four years in the Air Force counting […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A group of Bloomfield parents, concerned with the allegation that a winning school board candidate may not have been a township resident for the requisite time, spoke out over the weekend. The parents were Jen and Ted Gamble; Stephanie Gulley; Satenik Margaryan, Ben Morse, Lauren Fabetti, Meghan Gulczynski and Kim Beese. The group […]
In a court hearing on Monday, Dec. 19, Newark Superior Court Judge Martin Cronin gave indicted 1st Ward Councilman Elias Chalet until Jan. 20 to either accept a trial date or a plea bargain for allegedly accepting a bribe to use his political influence. When the hearing began, Chalet’s attorney, Peter Till, asked Cronin to […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Let’s look back again to the ‘40s when our country was engaged in World War II and Bloomfield students were expected to do their fair share in winning the struggle. In a very real way, Bloomfield children were an active division in a nationwide children’s crusade. In every school — and there […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — This past Tuesday, Dec. 13, it was expected that the Bloomfield Board of Education would discuss the residency qualifications of two newly elected board members, Gladys Rivera and Lillian Mancheno, at their regular meeting of that night. While Mancheno was interviewed during the summer by The Independent Press and said she has been […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A longtime Brookdale barber thinks he may see the writing on the wall and has started a petition campaign to send out his own message. Fred Ardizzone, owner of Brookdale Barber Shop, has brought to the attention of other business owners and their customers, in the most-northern section of Broad Street, that the […]