NEWARK, NJ — Former Bloomfield Police Officer Sean Courter, 35, of Englishtown, was sentenced on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to five years, with a five-year period of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Michael L. Ravin. In January, former Bloomfield Police Officer Orlando Trinidad, 34, of Bloomfield, was sentenced to a five-year prison term, with […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School Winter Musical of “The Pajama Game” will be presented in the high school auditorium Thursday, Friday and and Saturday nights, Feb. 25, 26 and 27, at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, Feb. 28. Admission will be charged. The producer and director of the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Daniel Chalet, the nephew of Councilman Elias Chalet, was taken into custody by Bloomfield Police on Feb 12 on an outstanding bench warrant and released on his own recognizance. According to BPD spokesman Ralph Marotti, Chalet turned himself in at the Bloomfield Detective Bureau on a Newark Police Department warrant for failing to […]
NEWARK — As a result of two separate investigations, conducted by Essex County sheriff’s detectives and Bloomfield and Irvington police officers, a reputed Newark Bloods gang member was arraigned on Wednesday, Feb. 24, on a host of weapons and drug charges and an Irvington suspect was arraigned on multiple drug charges. Sheriff Armando Fontoura […]
The theater company 4th Wall Theatre, in Bloomfield, will hold open auditions for all roles for its June 3 to 12 production of “Big Fish, written by book writer John August and Tony-nominated composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa. The production will be directed by Kate Swan, with music direction by Markus Grae-Hauck. The show will be presented […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — During the span of a handful of days, the Bloomfield Department of Public Works and Parks faced problems resulting from a dramatic change in temperature, from Arctic freeze to springlike weather. On Monday of this week, which was Presidents Day, Anthony Nesto, the DPW&P director, was preparing for more snow preceding an increase […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Department of Health has several new projects that it hopes will promote healthy eating and exercise habits. One is a contest among fifth- and sixth-graders at Fairview and Carteret elementary schools. Two convenience stores, one near each school, have agreed to set aside a small area where only fresh fruit, unsalted […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The township of Bloomfield has filed papers with the New Jersey Supreme Court challenging several requests made to the court by a Bloomfield resident. The resident, Pat Gilleran, had submitted an OPRA request to the town in 2014 to obtain a video surveillance tape. The township denied her request, and Gilleran brought them […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A mother of two children attending Watsessing Elementary School, and the media specialist there, recently created the first Engineering Night at the school. The event was held Thursday, Feb. 11, in the gymnasium. It was planned to commemorate the Feb. 21 to 27 observance of National Engineering Week, which focuses scholastic attention on […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Historical Society of Bloomfield celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. The HSOB is an outgrowth of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of 1962 and was incorporated in 1966. The museum, located on the third floor of the Bloomfield Children’s Library at 90 Broad St., is also celebrating 50 years, having had its grand […]