Activities are ongoing in downtown Bloomfield

Activities are ongoing in downtown Bloomfield

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield Center Alliance is still presenting Cruise Nights and promoting the Bloomfield Farmers Market every week in the town center. An end of summer block party is also on the schedule. • Cruise Nights car shows, sponsored by the BCA, will continue on Wednesday nights through August from 6 to 9 […]

Summer projects at GR schools nearing completion

Summer projects at GR schools nearing completion

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — Students arriving back to Glen Ridge schools this September will recognize improvements to some of the facilities. But what they may or may not know is that much of the work could not have be done without the help of parents working through individual home and school associations. At the high and […]

Parishioners say church will close, but archdiocese says no

Parishioners say church will close, but archdiocese says no

BLOOMFIELD, NJ  — The proposed merger of two Roman Catholic churches in Montclair has upset longtime Bloomfield and Glen Ridge parishioners who are members of one of the churches. The Archdiocese of Newark, which oversees Catholic churches in Essex County, issued a decree on July 18 combining Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Immaculate Conception. […]

GR Police have a successful bicycle registration drive

GR Police have a successful bicycle registration drive

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge Police Department hosted a bicycle registration session in a driveway at police headquarters, on Friday, July 29. The effort to register bikes began June 1 and so far, 42 residents and commuters who bike to the Glen Ridge train station have registered, according to Detective Michael Medico, of the […]

Big enrollment, lots of fun, at summer reading program

Big enrollment, lots of fun, at summer reading program

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The aptly-titled “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read” is the current summer-reading program at the Glen Ridge Public Library. The program highlights the human anatomy. Sydney Young, a member of the children’s services staff at the library, heads up the summer program and has put together a number of fascinating workshops to […]

Once again, Talent Time Players take the stage

Once again, Talent Time Players take the stage

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Charles Seller Foundation Talent Time Players will be presenting, this week and next week, its 67th annual stage production to benefit a local resident with extraordinary medical expenses. Seven performances of “Footloose: The Musical” will be presented at Bloomfield High School beginning tonight at 8 p.m. Additional shows are scheduled for Aug. […]

Fairview homeroom wins pizza party for its generosity

Fairview homeroom wins pizza party for its generosity

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Pizza was on the menu last Friday afternoon for the Fairview Elementary School children whose homeroom collected the most loose change in a recent drive to raise funds to support families struggling with the expense of cancer treatments for a child. The collection, which took place throughout February, was the idea of a […]

IHA workers strike after receiving notice of job terminations

IHA workers strike after receiving notice of job terminations

IRVINGTON, NJ — The members of SEIU Workers United Local 617 working in the Irvington Housing Authority’s Maintenance Department that are slated to have their employment with that federally funded agency terminated as of Wednesday, April 20, organized a protest strike outside the workplace on Nye Avenue on Tuesday, April 5. “We’re here because there’s […]

SOMA youth wow crowd at annual community recital

SOMA youth wow crowd at annual community recital

SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Burgeoning young pianists from Maplewood and South Orange were given the opportunity to amaze an audience as the local Music Educators Association presented its annual Community Piano Recital at the DeHart Community Center in Maplewood on April 3. The array of musical selections ranged from a lively rendition of […]

BMS Forensics team wins county tournament

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield Middle School recently won first place at the Essex County Forensics Tournament, held at Heritage Middle School, in Livingston. Four other schools competed. They were Caldwell, Orange, East Orange and Livingston. BMS also won individual honors, with eighth-grader Elizabeth Nucci taking first place; seventh-grader Emma Morse, second place; and eighth-grader Anna Haraka, […]