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. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The DUI-trial acquittal of Bloomfield Municipal Judge Wilfredo Benitez was based only on the roadside observations of a NJ state trooper and not alcohol/blood level test results, which were ruled inadmissible. Benitez had been discovered asleep in the early morning hours of Nov. 12, 2016, on a Route 80 shoulder in Tenafly, by […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Parks should be done with its pothole repair work by the end of next month. “We’re out there every day with the asphalt machine,” Anthony Nesto, the department director said earlier this week. “We are repairing every pothole we can get to.” Where potholes are located […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Jennifer Breuer and Holly Belli, the Glen Ridge and Bloomfield public library directors, respectively, explained last week the reasons why there have been no interlibrary services since the end of last year. Because of the lack of service, both libraries, and many others, stopped accepting requests for interlibrary loans. Breuer and Belli […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An Essex County prosecutor told a judge on Friday, Feb. 16, that the defense counsel for former Bloomfield High School teacher and running coach Leo Donaldson has taken contradictory positions on whether a plea deal or a trial was imminent. Donaldson has been indicted on 36 counts stemming from alleged sexual contact with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School will present “Pippin” as its winter musical next week, in four performances scheduled Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 22 to 25. It will be staged in the high school auditorium. The show has a cast of 32 students including four freshmen, according to Brandon Doemling, the BHS theater instructor directing the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Chief Municipal Court Judge Wilfredo Benitez filed a formal response Feb. 9 to three ethics violation charges against him following his DUI arrest after being found asleep in his car, on a westbound shoulder of Route 80, by two NJ State Troopers. This occurred Nov. 12, 2016, in Teaneck. Included in his […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Yael Katzwer, the managing editor of the News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, as well as the West Orange Chronicle, and Rebecca Panico, a Union County LocalSource staff writer, have been honored by the New Jersey Press Association in its 2017 Newspaper Contest. Both publications are owned by Worrall Community Newspapers. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — A seat on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders remains open after Britnee Timberlake, a former president of the Board, filled the seat in the New Jersey State Assembly left vacant by Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver. Timberlake was on the freeholder board from 2015 to 2018, and was the president […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School celebrated the opening of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with a celebration of its own on Thursday, Feb. 8. The activity was festive with songs, paper flags, and promotional films on winter Olympic events, and South Korea, where PyeongChang is located. But the highlight was the appearance of an actual […]