A day of community service was held at Christ Episcopal Church of Bloomfield and Glen Ridge on Saturday morning, Jan. 18. The annual event, held in observance of Martin Luther King Day, benefitting local charities was initiated in Bloomfield, but the Glen Ridge church, as it often does, opened its doors to neighbors. “Our parish […]
Jean Alvares, a former member of the Bloomfield Open Space Committee who helped to establish community gardens at Pulaski and Milhouse parks, and was a Montclair State University professor of classics and humanities, died at home Jan. 16, after a long illness. He was remembered by residents and colleagues as an erudite, but a down-to-earth […]
Carteret Elementary School held its first Wellness Fair on Saturday morning, Jan. 11, in the school gym with about a dozen health care providers on hand. The event was sponsored by the school’s Cultural Committee and coordinated by sixth-grade special education teacher Gianna Allegretti. She cited a language barrier among the Carteret population as one […]
Recently inaugurated, a squad of Bloomfield High School girls called the Lady Bengalettes have taken to the gym floor during boys and girls basketball games to energize fans with majorette dancing. According to the group’s founder and advisor, Dorcas Allen, a business education teacher at the school, majorette dance combines a variety of styles — […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School Athletic Hall of Fame Association and the Bloomfield Educational Foundation are proud to introduce the Class of 2025 inductees. The induction reception and dinner will take place April 30 at Nanina’s in the Park, located at 540 Mill St., in Belleville, at 6 p.m. The following are the […]
Hear ye, hear ye! Now is the time for New Year’s resolutions.l Befitting the moment, a fair number of local personages, distinguished by their appearance in The Independent Press during the most recently concluded year, were queried as to their 2025 resolutions. This request is far from precedent. According to the Pew Research Center, 30 […]
In an Oct. 18 letter, the New Jersey Historical Sites Council gave NJ Transit the go-ahead for its proposed rehabilitation, and Americans with Disabilities Act enhancement, of the historic Bloomfield railroad station. The accepted NJT proposal will destroy the existing concrete canopy and replace it with a steel canopy with 30 percent coverage at the […]
In Bloomfield High School girls basketball history, there was no one better than Tyiana Sears. A 6-foot-2 power forward, Sears proved unstoppable during her career, leading the Bengals to county and state sectional titles in her junior season and graduating in 2001 as the program’s all-time leading scorer. Sears, one of the top scorers all-time […]
After 37 years as an educator, Oak View Elementary School media specialist Patricia D’Avanzo is closing the book on homeroom bells and fire drills and will officially retire Dec. 31. Her final school dismissal is tomorrow. Born in Little Italy in New York City, her family moved to Bloomfield when she was three and lived […]
Students from Bloomfield and Glen Ridge were honored at Mount St. Dominic Academy for their scores on the Advanced Placement (AP) program exams taken at the independent Catholic college preparatory school in Caldwell. Lorelei Middleton of Glen Ridge was named an AP Scholar with Distinction for scoring a three or higher on at least five […]