NEWARK, NJ — Join the Essex County freeholders on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Branch Brook Park, the Prudential grove area off of Park Avenue in Newark, from noon to 6 p.m. for the Essex County Freeholder’s second African Caribbean Festival. This free event will celebrate, as Bob Marley said, “One love, one heart, let’s get […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Center Alliance had its second block party of the summer along Washington Street on Saturday, Aug. 27. The street is a good place for a block party. It is tucked away into the epicenter of the downtown Bloomfield district, which is the focal point of efforts by the BCA for generating […]
Discarded culvert impedes progress on the trail of a pocket park
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A discarded culvert is in the way of fully completing the extension of the Morris Canal pocket park, located on Oak Tree Lane. A culvert is a concrete water pipe placed under roadbeds. The origin of this partially-buried culvert is unknown, although the Garden State Parkway is a stone’s throw away. The effort […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Essex County will host its annual Sept. 11 ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 8 a.m. — with chamber music playing until 2 p.m. — at the Sept. 11 Memorial in Eagle Rock Reservation off of Eagle Rock Avenue in West Orange. This year’s ceremony, which is held by County Executive […]
NEWARK, NJ — Following the success of last year’s reorganization and consolidation of services within the Port Authority Bus Terminal, NJ Transit is again partnering with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for Phase Two of improvements to the quality of commute, according to an Aug. 23 press release. Beginning Sept. 3, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield has filed a notice of appeal contesting the June 3 jury verdict awarding $2.9 million to the former owner of the land containing the historic train station and tunnel on Lackawanna Place. The .6 acres of land is a slope that rises 13 feet from street level to abut the NJ Transit […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — An oral health clinic for children and at-risk pregnant women will open in Bloomfield on Monday, Aug. 29. The clinic is the KinderSmile Oral Health Center. It will be located at 10 Broad Street, on the ground floor of the Leo Building, at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue. The center will provide dental services […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The other day, Bloomfield resident Constance “Dottie” Genoni was sitting in the backyard of her Foster Street neighbor, Eileen Rush. She and Eileen were having a discussion about their joint birthday party next week: Was Dottie planning a swim in Rush’s pool to mark the occasion? Dottie didn’t think so. She said that […]
PATH expands in county via Mental Health Association
MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Mental Health Association of Essex County, headquartered in Montclair, has been awarded a grant of more than half a million dollars by the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to provide outreach services to adults diagnosed as mentally ill who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A funeral home is not ordinarily a place one would expect to find a children’s playroom. But Bloomfield resident and certified child-life specialist Angie Koeneker says a room for a child to express their loss should be in every funeral home. Koeneker, who spoke at Van Tassel’s Funeral Home on Saturday, Aug. 13, […]