BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School students, from left, Nathan Gordon, Charles Lisa, Mia Gonzalez and Giannie Passano were named the school’s “Characters With Character” for the month of November. Each month, selected BHS students are recognized for being a positive example to the school community by demonstrating exemplary character traits. The students are selected […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School’s theater department is back to performing this weekend with its annual fall play, this time staging the 1936 play “Stage Door.” Telling the story of a group of young women who go to New York to study acting and find jobs in the theater, the show eventually follows a […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School Principal Chris Jennings spoke to the Board of Education about the high school graduation rate at the Oct. 12 meeting, explaining the factors that determine the rate at BHS and how many students graduate within four years of their first day of school as freshmen. “Students who move in […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School students, from left, Helen Abreu, Keyshaliz Gonzalez, Christian Avecillas and Leonni Wright were named “Characters with Character” for September. Each month, select BHS students are recognized for being a positive example to the school community by demonstrating exemplary character traits. The students are selected from all the students who […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — After the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on last year’s regular season, the Bloomfield High School marching band is back to performing for audiences. Last year, to restrict travel, the band members got to play only at home games and had to drop out of their normal competition schedule. The halftime show was […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The new school year is little more than a week old, but the Bloomfield High School social studies department is already winning awards. Shamshadeen Mayers, who teaches Advanced Placement United States history and Advanced Placement comparative government and politics at BHS, won the Teacher of the Year Award from the New Jersey […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Suburban Essex Chamber of Commerce Foundation has named four 2021 scholarship recipients: Belleville’s Vivian Shu Yi Li, who will attend Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., and Cybel Cobbinah, who will attend Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.; Bloomfield’s Gwen Reoch, who will attend Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn.; and Glen […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Emma Morse went to Bloomfield High School’s production of “Grease” in 2011 and decided that she wanted to do that eventually. An elementary school student at the time, she had to wait another few years to audition for a BHS theater production, but she eventually did make it to the auditorium’s stage […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A procession of Bloomfield High School seniors and teachers made its way down Belleville Avenue to Foley Field on Wednesday morning, June 23, for a traditional commencement, leaving behind more than a year of lockdowns and a senior year fractured by the pandemic. For the venerable school, it was the 167th graduation […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Men of Essex Inc. selected Irvington High School football phenom Mikai Gbayor as recipient of the 63rd annual Essex Award. Gbayor was a standout linebacker for Irvington High School and was named a 2020 All-American candidate by Sports Illustrated. He was named to the USA Today All–New Jersey first team. […]