By Daniel Jackovino, Staff Writer

A five-day bike ride of 300 miles, Manhattan to Capitol Hill. For Ted Glick, the journey is another attempt to end something he sees no good in continuing.

Glick, 62, activist and Bloomfield resident, has opposed numerous American policies during the past 40…

By Daniel Jackovino, Staff Writer

A Bloomfield mother is troubled because she feels she has no choice but to remove her 6-year old son from one school and enroll him in another for September because of a change in the law.

Lisa Freid, who lives in the 3rd Ward, told the Board of Education last…

Several athletes from Bloomfield High School raised $500 dollars and participated in the Lincoln Tunnel 5K Challenge on April 29.

For this race, runners start on the New Jersey side of the tunnel and run through the south tube all the way to the New York City side, turn around, and then run back home to…

By Daniel Jackovino, Staff Writer

It may look like business as usual from Broad Street, away from the girders supporting the damaged east wall. And on Sunday mornings, when congregates file into the Parish House, no one may notice the church doors remain closed.

But according to Jack…

By Daniel Jackovino, Staff Writer

Empowering children to create a culture of compassion was displayed at Fairview Elementary School last week when the student body formed a circle of more than 500 paper chain loops on which was written an act of kindness each pupil had performed.

The…

Bloomfield resident Steve Vahalla of the Kean University men's volleyball team headlined the 2012 Skyline Conference Men's Volleyball squad, as he was named the Player of the Year, as selected by the conference's eight head…

For the three open seats on the Bloomfield Board of Education, we support the candidacies of Mary Shaughnessy, an incumbent, and newcomers Daniel Anderson and Kent Weisert. Of the four candidates, these three can provide the most for our students, their schools and parents, and the taxpayers.

Shaughnessy has served as BOE president this year, and has grown significantly in the position. She is an active board member, bringing new ideas to the table, and speaks her mind in public…

Last year, the school dipped heavily into its surplus and withdrew nearly $2 million to produce a budget that actually saw taxes decrease ever so slightly. But this year, unable to draw any more from the surplus account, the board raised taxes by $244 on the average home, assessed at $280,300. A tax raise half that last year could have been followed by a similar increase this year. 

This year, eleven teacher-certified staff members were cut from the payroll, and the board kept the…