BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Members of the Bloomfield Township Council and Essex County Board of County Commissioners held a meeting about the proposed Essex–Hudson Greenway project on April 14, updating residents about the 9-mile park that could run through Essex and Hudson counties. The park would be built on an unused freight train rail line owned […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School yet again has a student who has been accepted to multiple Ivy League schools. Even more impressively, the Odekunle family yet again has a student who has been accepted to multiple Ivy League schools. David Odekunle, a senior at BHS, has been accepted to seven Ivy League schools: Princeton […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A virtual meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 28, at 6 p.m., in which the speakers will discuss how to prevent opioid misuse/abuse among student athletes and adults with chronic pain. The event will be hosted by the Bloomfield Municipal Alliance Committee, Bloomfield Department of Health and Human Services, Essex County […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the Essex County Board of County Commissioners, the Essex County Division of Community Health, and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team are encouraging residents to dispose of their old or unwanted prescription medications during the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual Drug Take Back […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Almost four months into his tenure as the administrator at St. Valentine Church in Bloomfield, the Rev. Andrew Onyemaobi is already working on big plans for the future. His current project is relaunching the religious education program, which was shuttered when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything that required people to gather […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — NiCori Studios & Productions, in association with Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center and Frungillo Catering, will be producing “Music at the Mansion: Porch Performances” beginning May 8 and continuing with 15 different singers through Sept. 25. Corinna Sowers Adler will host Music at the Mansion, an evening of dinner and entertainment that will […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Princeton Review has named Bloomfield College a top undergraduate school for Game Design in its 12th annual ranking list, “Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Game Design for 2021.” Bloomfield College is ranked highest in New Jersey and No. 34 nationally among undergraduate schools offering programs in game design. “The Bloomfield College […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — RegisteredNursing.org recently recognized Bloomfield College as No. 9 out of 46 New Jersey higher education institutions in its ranking of the “Best Nursing Programs in New Jersey.” The nursing organization also ranked the college’s RN to BSN program as No. 4 in the state. “The college is renowned for the excellence of […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield College is one of 20 institutions nationwide selected to receive a 2021 Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education Program Development Grant through the Council of Independent Colleges. The two-year $50,000 grant award, to be used between May 1, 2021, and April 30, 2023, will supplement Bloomfield College’s current initiatives toward deepening […]
MORRISTOWN, NJ — In an effort to help local school districts safely resume in-person instruction, Atlantic Health System has partnered with more than 120 school districts — including Bloomfield Public Schools — and individual schools to administer COVID-19 vaccines to more than 11,000 of their faculty and essential support staff. The vaccination appointments for teachers […]