BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The 2017-2018 Bloomfield School District budget will increase property taxes by $200 on the average-assessed home of $270,700, according to Debra Mangano, the accountant for the board of education. This represents an increase of 1 percent above the previous academic year, she said. Total school expenditures will be $107.6 million. For the 2016-2017 […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — At a special meeting Wednesday, May 31, the Bloomfield Township Council voted unanimously to appoint Jenny Mundell to complete the unexpired term of former 1st Ward Councilman Elias Chalet. The term expires Jan. 1, 2018. Mundell is the 1st Ward candidate on the Democratic slate for the primary elections that were held this […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Public Library, located at 90 Broad St. in Bloomfield, continues with its film series which hosts two films each week, on Mondays and Thursdays, with the exception of holidays. The following films start at 12:15 p.m. in the barrier-free Library Theatre. Admission is free and all are welcome. For information, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An on-again, off-again tennis tournament, started in the 1980s by a Bloomfield resident but discontinued for almost three decades, has been rejuvenated in recent years and is currently being played with a first-place trophy and bragging rights at stake. The “Friendly Man Tennis Tournament,” the creation of James Street resident Alfred “Sonny” Piccoli, […]
NEWARK, NJ — PSE&G filed June 1 for a modest increase in residential gas bills that would take effect this coming fall. If approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, this would be the first gas supply rate increase in nine years, according to a press release from the utility. While the proposed […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A memorial service for Roseanna Smith, better known in Bloomfield as the business owner and dance instructor at Miss Roseanna’s School of Dance will be held at 1 p.m. this Saturday, June 3, at Watchung Presbyterian Church. Smith died May 3. For 65 years, Smith taught dance at her studio located at 403 […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Rain did not stop the Bloomfield Memorial Day Parade this past Monday as it did last year when a forecast scuttled the ceremony. Last year there was no contingency plan in the event of inclement weather, but this year there was. And although it did rain pretty well at times, the destination on […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School theater arts teacher Brandon Doemling has been awarded the Jo Ann Fox Award by the theater arts department at Montclair State University. This is an award that a middle- or high-school teacher can win only once. It represents their achievement in building a dynamic theater arts program. Doemling, in an […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The former Bloomfield Board of Education member who unsuccessfully challenged, in court, the residency qualification of a current BOE member, has appealed the decision to the NJ Department of Education. In papers filed with the DOE on May 16, former BOE member Shane Berger said that Judge Leslie Celentano erred by finding that […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Center Alliance held its second springtime Bloomfield Center Block Party along Washington Street on Saturday, May 20. Restaurants and eateries along the thoroughfare were invited to bring their business to the curb. About a dozen did, with several more restaurants from other parts of town joining in. There were a couple […]