BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Read Across America, a celebration of reading, was recognized by Bloomfield elementary schools last week with a schedule of activities promoting childhood literacy. The weeklong festivity commemorates the March 2 birthday of children’s story author Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. First responders, secondary school students and local celebrities visited the elementary schools […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A Bloomfield playwright has written a play about the 1921 destruction, by white rioters, of the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla. Greenwood was the prosperous northern area of Tulsa where the residents were black. Its story is a little-known chapter in American race relations that playwright Cilque Brown has brought to life with […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino addressed recent threats made to schools in Essex County on Feb. 27, in the wake of the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. He also spoke about the spike in threats that come after an incident like the one in Florida. According […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield will be well-represented in the upcoming 16th annual Garden State Film Festival as two township residents have entered the competition and will have their work screened before a wide audience. The two filmmakers — Francesco Nuzzi and Tom Ryan — are both young, ambitious, and still learning their trade, hoping to someday […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Instances of mail theft or attempted theft have been reported in Essex, Union, Bergen, Middlesex and Passaic counties, according to the US Postal Service. Street mailboxes are the targets. The theft is worked with a bead of glue placed inside the mailbox flap to snare envelopes before they fall into the mailbox chamber. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — MEND, a nonprofit working to alleviate hunger in Essex County, is hosting a celebratory dinner on Thursday, March 8, at The Woodland in Maplewood. In addition to raising funds and awareness, the gala will honor two community partners that have supported MEND as it works to serve its more than 140,000 food-insecure […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The county announced on March 2 that a total of 139 deer and 73 unborn deer were removed from South Mountain Reservation and Hilltop Reservation during the 11th annual Deer Management Program. The program was held over 11 days between Jan. 16 and Feb. 27. “Controlling the population by removing deer […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Music director Israel Herman will conduct the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra in its second concert of the 2017-2018 season on Sunday, March 11, at 3 p.m. with an exciting program that will include Rossini’s Overture to “Il barbiere de Siviglia,” the Felix Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64, and Franz […]
CEDAR GROVE, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. presented his 15th annual State of the County Address on Monday, Feb. 26, in the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove. The multimedia presentation outlined county achievements and improvement projects completed in 2017, highlighted the services and programs offered by Essex County and announced […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Twenty schools from the NJ Interscholastic STEM League participated in a competition held at Bloomfield High School on Thursday, Feb. 22. It was quite a showing with five students per team working at cluttered tables while teachers and curious STEM judges roamed. The event was held in the first-floor gym called the Pit. […]