GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Red Dogs – Pee Wee football team, comprising third- and fourth-graders, defeated Dumont for the Bergen County Junior Football League championship. The Red Dogs hosted this game Saturday, Nov. 5, in Glen Ridge. The final score was 27-12. It marks back-to-back seasons with 9-0 records for these group […]
Michael J. Canace, of Rolling Meadows, IL, formerly of Maplewood, NJ. On October 1st, following a courageous battle with ALS, at home, surrounded by loved ones. Raised in Maplewood, and a 1977 graduate of Rutgers University, Mike moved to Chicago in 1983 for business opportunities in sales and marketing. He was founder, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The old adage is to “say it with flowers.” And that’s what John Monaco, owner of A Personal Touch Florist, in Nutley, has been doing for three decades. Monaco is about to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his flower shop, and it is a milestone that fills him with a great sense of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The first-grade students of St. Thomas the Apostle School in Bloomfield last week learned about tornadoes and how they form. After gaining this knowledge, the students were able to take cleaned water bottles, fill them with soap, water, and glitter, and create mini-tornadoes. This is one of the first STEM Projects of the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Former Bloomfield Board of Education President Dan Anderson disagrees with the recent proposal by the NJ Department of Education that would require PARCC tests as the overriding factor in whether a student should graduate from high school or not. Anderson is still a member of the school board. In a May press release, […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The National Council of Jewish Women, Essex County Section, have honored three Essex County high school students with the Nancy and Robert Eskow NCJW Volunteer Awards, according to a press release from the NCJW/Essex. Selected from a field of 36 applicants, the 2016 award-winners include Madeline Broderick of Glen Ridge High […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — In an effort to keep down the geese population in Bloomfield, the Board of Health is employing a vendor that uses Border collies to scare the birds, hopefully into another municipality far,far away. This effort is in conjunction with coating the eggs with corn oil by the Public Works Department. The name of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Proving that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, a Hazelwood Road resident, dissatisfied with the township response to an hydraulic fluid leak in her neighborhood, contacted the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection about her concern. The DEP then alerted the Hazmat Unit of the Nutley Fire Department, which handles hazardous material accidents […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Historical Society of Bloomfield will present “The Role of New Jersey in the Civil War.” The program will treat the battlefront, enlistment motivations, training, camp experience, military discipline, combat and a comparative evaluation of the state’s military record. Home-front politics will also be discussed. The notion of New Jersey as a […]
Donald K Schweikert, 92, of Searsport, Maine, died peacefully at home on April 10th, in the morning light. Born in Brooklyn N.Y. on August 21, 1923, he attended Adelphi Academy before going to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an active member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. […]