BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Mayor Michael Venezia announced Monday, March 13, his slate of council candidates for the upcoming June primary. Jenny Mundell will be running for the 1st Ward council seat; Councilman Nicholas Joanow for the 2nd Ward seat, and Sarah Cruz for 3rd Ward seat. “Jenny, Nick and Sarah are exactly the kind […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Department of Health has received funding to conduct an audit of the accessibility of parks, schools, and mass transit destinations by pedestrians and bicyclers. The money is part of a Partners in Health “Healthy Communities” grant for $20,000. “We’re going to actually study walking paths,” said Karen Lore, the health department […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Parking Authority has scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Bloomfield Bike Depot for Friday, March 24, at 3:30 p.m. “It is a new facility that will offer local resident safe and secure storage for their bicycles right here in Bloomfield Center’s parking garage,” said Ollyn Lettman, the director of the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Spring and its unpredictable early weather arrived with warming temperatures Monday following a blizzard last week in the Greater New York area. Bloomfield came through the storm OK, according to Anthony Nesto, the director of Bloomfield Public Works and Parks. About 8 inches of snow dropped on Tuesday, March 14, in the local […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Leo Donaldson, the former Bloomfield High School coach and teacher charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, was released from the Essex County Correctional Facility on March 13 after posting a bail of $300,000 with no 10 percent. Donaldson was arrested Oct. 27 and incarcerated for 134 days. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Kristine Contento-Angell, a Bloomfield resident and state champion in mountain biking, has helped organize a mountain biking team for local children. The team is called ESSEX Offroad and it is in the NJ Interscholastic Cycling League, which is part of National Interscholastic Cycling. The bikers are sixth- to 12-graders. Contento-Angell said since the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — On Monday, it was all hands on deck at the Bloomfield Department of Public Works. With a mere 20 hours before the first flakes were expected to begin falling, sections of streets had already been brined. The forecast was up to 2 feet of snow and high winds, beginning early Tuesday morning. “It […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Vincent Ascolese, the former animal-control officer at North Jersey Humane Society Shelter, in Bloomfield, pleaded guilty to three counts of disorderly person’s conduct in Bloomfield Municipal Court on Thursday, March 9. Ascolese, 50, faced multiple NJ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals charges stemming from his euthanizing an injured fawn on […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Indicted Bloomfield Councilman Elias Chalet has chosen a jury trial and possibly 10 years of imprisonment instead of accepting a plea deal for a possible four year-sentence. Chalet made his decision public Wednesday, March 1, in Newark Superior Court, before Judge Martin Cronin. Cronin said if convicted by a jury, sentencing would be […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A playwright and director who once presented her theatrical works at the Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Ridge will have her latest work performed in New York City during the next few weeks. Cilque (pronounced “silky”) Brown, a Bloomfield resident, has written “Safe,” a play about a minor league baseball team in the […]