GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A joint meeting of the Glen Ridge and Montclair planning boards was held at Montclair Fire Headquarters on Monday, March 26. The topic was the proposed medical office building across Bay Avenue from Mountainside Hospital and how to make it fit into a residential neighborhood. No vote was taken. A key speaker […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Artists painting under the radar? Who knew there was an open artists studio in Bloomfield at the Brookdale Reformed Church every Tuesday morning? There is and has been for about 20 years. It is an easy-going environment, according to the man who oversees it, Belleville resident and former commercial artist Richard Toglia. An […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — A Bloomfield resident was found fatally shot Monday morning, March 12, on the sidewalk along Milbank Park, on North 17th Street. Aristedes Statiroudis, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:57 a.m., according to Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly, of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Bloomfield Public Safety Director Sam DeMaio, in […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — A memorial service for former Glen Ridge Municipal Judge Joseph Connolly, 79, will be held Saturday, March 24, 1 p.m., in the Glen Ridge Congregational Church. Connolly died Feb. 13, 2018. He presided in Glen Ridge for 32 years and in Bloomfield for six years. In a recent interview with his wife, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Instances of mail theft or attempted theft have been reported in Essex, Union, Bergen, Middlesex and Passaic counties, according to the US Postal Service. Street mailboxes are the targets. The theft is worked with a bead of glue placed inside the mailbox flap to snare envelopes before they fall into the mailbox chamber. […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Twenty schools from the NJ Interscholastic STEM League participated in a competition held at Bloomfield High School on Thursday, Feb. 22. It was quite a showing with five students per team working at cluttered tables while teachers and curious STEM judges roamed. The event was held in the first-floor gym called the Pit. […]
Alyssa Pizzano – Girls’ bowling team – NHS senior What attracted you to bowling? I always enjoyed going bowling with my friends and family. When I was in elementary school, I participated in a recreational bowling league as well. As I entered high school, I tried out for the team and made varsity my freshman year. Talk about your best memory […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Glen Ridge Community Concerts presented “OboeBass!” on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25, at the Congregational Church, on Ridgewood Avenue. Carrie Vecchione, a former Lincoln Street resident who graduated from Glen Ridge High School, Class of ‘77, and her husband, Rolf Erdahl, bill themselves as the only oboe/bass duo in the world. If this […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School will present “Pippin” as its winter musical next week, in four performances scheduled Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 22 to 25. It will be staged in the high school auditorium. The show has a cast of 32 students including four freshmen, according to Brandon Doemling, the BHS theater instructor directing the […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Carteret Elementary School celebrated the opening of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with a celebration of its own on Thursday, Feb. 8. The activity was festive with songs, paper flags, and promotional films on winter Olympic events, and South Korea, where PyeongChang is located. But the highlight was the appearance of an actual […]