The 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, when American military forces ceased fighting, was observed at Glendale Cemetery, on Saturday. The day was proclaimed National Vietnam War Veterans Day by President Barack Obama in 2012 and in preparation for this anniversary, the Belleville Historical Society cleaned the grave markers of the soldiers […]
Bloomfield Superintendent of Schools Sal Goncalves was awarded an honorary doctorate by Montclair State University on Feb. 28. The recognition came unexpectedly at the annual MSU Gratitude Dinner and was for initiating the district’s involvement with an exchange program between the university and district. “It was an honor and a privilege to be recognized,” Goncalves […]
At the March 10 Bloomfield Township Council meeting, a proclamation recognized Special Olympian Brian Maly “for his outstanding Alpine Racing skills as the very first Gold Medal Champion in Advanced Level Skiing for Bloomfield.” Maly’s gold medal came at Mountain Creek, Vernon, in the Super G. This event requires competitors to individually race downhill against […]
The men seated on any day in Brookdale Barbers, a north Broad Street institution, like to talk. Coffee and cake is on the table and photographs of the regulars, past and present, on the walls. Seated in chairs along two walls are the talkers, some speaking quietly to each other and some across the shop […]
Mairead Chern, the Fairview Elementary School Teacher of the Year, has also been named Bloomfield Public School Teacher of the Year. A language arts interventionist, Chern is Bloomfield born and raised, graduating from Bloomfield High School, in 1991. She lived on East Passaic Avenue. (Her given name is Gallic and her parents were born in […]
By chance, a tragedy that would have reverberated through the township for years instead ended with the prospects of a 10-year-old boy explaining to his mother how he managed to come home, after an afternoon with friends, jacketless, swaddled in a blanket and soaked to the bone. “Dispatch got a call from a neighbor with […]
The recently concluded Bloomfield High School Thespian Society production of “Alice By Heart” is a story about conflicting territories. One territory is the subterranean shelter for English children fleeing their city streets during the Nazi bombardment blitz of London during World War II. The second territory is in the mind of Alice Spenser, a child […]
Rabbi Marc Katz, who leads the Temple Ner Tamid congregation in Bloomfield, recently spoke to students at Mount St. Dominic Academy on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Katz, a published author of two books on the Jewish faith, addressed critical topics, including antisemitism, stereotypes, and violence against Jewish people. He spoke about how, as a rabbi, he […]
Black History Month is currently being observed at Carteret Elementary School with student posters taped in hallways and classroom doors showing the familiar faces of Martin Luther King, Jr., Colin Powell and Rosa Parks. But the times, they are a-changin’ and consequently new faces and unknowns are breaking into the historic lineup pictured. Who is […]
BLOOMFIELD — Joseph Fleres, assistant superintendent of Bloomfield Public School District, has been chosen as the 2025 Bloomfield Educational Foundation Educator of the Year. “We are pleased to recognize the exceptional service that Joseph Fleres has shown, with our prestigious Educator of the Year award,” said Terry Mullane, chairman of The Bloomfield Educational Foundation. “His […]