ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Clerk Christopher J. Durkin will hold several outreach events throughout the summer. They will be held as follows: Saturday, July 1, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at West Orange Park & Ride, 560 Northfield Ave. in West Orange; Wednesday, July 5, from 2 to 7:30 p.m. at Nutley Parks […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The New Jersey Clean Communities Council has awarded its “Clean Communities Vision I Award” to Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. for his ongoing vision to turn ideas into accomplishments. DiVincenzo is the first-ever winner of the Vision I Award, created this year to recognize vision in open space preservation and […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Demarest Elementary School teacher Cynthia McKee will be retiring at the end of this month. McKee, who taught special education for 10 years in Maryland and New York State before coming to Bloomfield, taught first grade at Demarest for 30 years. However she confessed to actually beginning in the district, on a part-time […]
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 […]