Restorative justice at Demarest school

Restorative justice at Demarest school

Demarest Elementary School has been recognized by the New Jersey Educational Association as a restorative justice community and is one of only a few schools in the state receiving this distinction. First, what is restorative justice? This is a method of mitigating disputes between students, and is based on the personal reflection by the students […]

Bloomfield residents work to save the monarch

Bloomfield residents work to save the monarch

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A passel of environmentally minded Bloomfield residents are collectively and independently creating flowering garden beds to attract and sustain pollinators while also raising monarch butterflies to send on their 3,000-mile migration to Mexico. The butterflies will return north in the spring, but only after three or four generations have expended themselves on […]

Six bright Bloomfield students set to compete at county contest

Six bright Bloomfield students set to compete at county contest

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School fifth-grader Noah Feliciano will be one of six Bloomfield elementary school students representing the district in the upcoming Essex County Academically Speaking competition, which is sponsored by the Essex County Committee for Gifted and Talented Education. Noah qualified by answering questions in a preliminary round, which was held virtually […]

Meet Mike Sullivan, Demarest’s new principal

Meet Mike Sullivan, Demarest’s new principal

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Students and staff at Demarest Elementary School met their new principal last week, as Mike Sullivan prepares to become head of the school in September. Currently the vice principal at John H. Walker Middle School in Nutley, Sullivan is taking over for Demarest departing interim Principal Deborah Ferrara, who has been at […]