BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield UNICO, the Italian service organization, held its 26th annual Columbus Day observance this past Monday morning, Oct. 10, at the Christopher Columbus monument on the Green, across Broad Street from the Civic Center. Always a charming public event in Bloomfield, it attracted a small gathering of fourth-grade essayists, parents, principals, police […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County will hold early voting for the Nov. 8 election from Oct. 29 through Nov. 6, Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Early voting will be held at the following locations: Watsessing Park Community Center, Bloomfield Avenue and Conger […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge School District has a new buildings and grounds supervisor. Robert Gomes was hired to this position Sept. 1 and comes to the borough with considerable experience. Gomes, 52, has his roots in the area, having grown up in Bloomfield, on Harrison Street off Newark Avenue. His paternal grandfather […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An Oct. 5 water main break in Nutley has caused Glen Ridge and Montclair to declare states of emergency. The break, which spans more than 70 inches of main, has affected several Essex County towns, including Belleville, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair and Nutley — as well as others in Passaic and […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Historical Society of Bloomfield will present “The Toll of the Garden State Parkway on Bloomfield” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Presbyterian Church on the Green, 147 Broad St. in Bloomfield. This event is free and open to the public. Join Bloomfield historian Richard Rockwell as he explores the […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — St. Anthony of Padua Church in Belleville will celebrate its 120th anniversary with dinner and dancing on Sunday, Oct. 30. To commemorate this milestone anniversary, St. Anthony of Padua Church will begin with Mass at noon, followed by a buffet dinner and dancing at The Chandelier, 340 Franklin Ave. in Belleville. The […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The township of Bloomfield’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department is curating an art exhibit with work by deceased artist Mark Richardson that will include sketches, collages and paintings. “50 Years of Work by Artist Mark Richardson” will be on display at the Bloomfield Civic Center, 84 Broad St., from Oct. 15 […]
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — On Sept. 30, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Region II administrator Alicka Ampry-Samuel announced 646 new housing choice vouchers totaling $8,328,385 awarded to public housing authorities in New Jersey. The announcement was made during Ampry-Samuel’s keynote address at the 2022 N.J. Governor’s Conference, held annually in Atlantic City. “Housing […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A public forum on solar energy attracted a handful of environmental activists to the Civic Center on Tuesday, Sept. 27, to hear four speakers. The forum, according to one speaker, was scheduled to take advantage of the hopes raised by the recent approval of a bipartisan federal bill, the Inflation Reduction Act. […]
ELIZABETH, NJ — Lauren Bedell, a nursing student at Trinitas School of Nursing/RWJBH, was recently named president of New Jersey Nursing Students Inc. Bedell was elected unanimously by her peers in the NJNS for a term starting in July 2022 and running through February 2023. Made up of close to 1,000 student members from nursing […]