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Bloomfield Youth Band seeks monetary donations for 2024-2025 season
Bloomfield Youth Band seeks monetary donations to offset expenses for its 2024-2025 concert season. Donations accepted online. The Jersey Bee’s staff includes producers and editors who work together to gather, verify, and report useful local news and information.
Judge Orders Wendy’s/Taco Bell Development to Proceed, Despite Planning Board’s Rejection
BLOOMFIELD, NJ--In December 2022, Bloomfield’s Planning Board determined that a proposal for a Wendy’s/Taco Bell location in Brookdale didn’t do enough to ensure its safe operation in a school zone on a congested stretch of Broad Street. While the applicant, Finomus Bloomfield RE Holdings, was given the chance to amend their application to meet the Board’s feedback, residents were elated to see it denied. Nearly 18 months later, it’s the developer who ended up with the last word. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER A Superior Court judge ruled last week that the decision of...
Homes at or under $350,000 in Essex County
For prospective homebuyers eyeing the real estate market in areas of Essex County, here’s what sold for or under $350,000 between June 24 and June 30. Here, we provide a breakdown of the top 10 properties in each area, selected based on their proximity to the desired price range and the most spacious living areas available.
Several roads in Montclair will be closed on Jul. 4
Several roads in Montclair will be closed on Jul. 4 for the Independence Day Parade from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A list of affected roadways available online. The Jersey Bee’s staff includes producers and editors who work together to gather, verify, and report useful local news and information.
Montclair High School Baseball Kept ‘Train’ Rolling Despite Injuries
The Montclair High School baseball team could have easily pulled up stakes and called it a season this past spring. The Mounties fell to 7-6-1 near the end of April while being hit with a rash of injuries. “We lost three straight games and frankly were playing poorly,” said Montclair...
Bomb threat made just before a drag story hour at this N.J. library investigated as a bias crime, AG says
Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced Monday that his office is investigating bomb threats that shut down a drag queen story hour planned for Sunday at the Montclair Public Library. The supervisor of the main children’s library on 50 South Fullerton St. received an emailed threat that bombs had been placed...
N.J. town official faced backlash after supporting workers’ claims of unfair treatment, suit says
Montclair’s affirmative action officer has sued the township, claiming he faced retaliation after he backed township workers’ claims of discrimination and a hostile work environment. From 2013 to March 2022, Bruce Morgan investigated 15 discrimination complaints made by Montclair employees. Each time, Morgan concluded the township had done...
Newark students can benefit from free meal programs, summer activities
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Free city and school programs are available to Newark families this summer to keep students academically engaged and reduce hunger, which is more pronounced when kids are out of school.Studies show summer learning programs can prepare students for the upcoming school year. In Newark, more than 6,000 public school students are attending summer programs, a combination of mandatory academic programs and specialized and recreational programs.Newark Public Schools Superintendent Roger León said summer school is about “moving kids forward” by helping students refine basic skills in...
Million-Dollar Listing: $1M Montclair Mansion Has Private Balcony, Gardens With Gazebo
The Colonial home at 5 Franklin Pl. has 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, and is "20 years young," reads the listing. Represented by Elizabeth Morris & Vikram Vasisht of The Liz + Vikram Team, the house introduces itself with a circular driveway, and has a main level with a double height foyer.
Inauguration of Montclair’s Historic New Council
Yesterday, the Township of Montclair celebrated a historic milestone with the inauguration of its new Council. Dr. Renee Baskerville made history as Montclair’s first woman of color to serve as mayor. She will lead a new council that includes five women out of seven members, a notable achievement not seen in a decade.
Paterson police get extra $10M from state for second year. Is it working?
PATERSON — For the second consecutive year, the New Jersey budget is providing an extra $10 million for the state-controlled Paterson police department. Officials have not provided an itemized breakdown of exactly how the money would be used. Nor have they revealed how much they already have spent from the state’s first allocation of $10 million for the Paterson Police Department during the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Shakur Stevenson has something to prove
Gervonta Davis. Vasyl Lomachenko. Devin Haney. Teofimo Lopez. These men are all in the general weight realm of WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson. With a record of twenty-one wins against zero losses, the twenty-seven year old Stevenson would be a high profile opponent for any of the aforementioned names. Stevenson is more than just an undefeated titlist, after all. He’s regarded as one of the most talented fighters on the planet. Highly skilled and at times enthralling, the product of Newark, New Jersey, is good – very good – perhaps too good for his own good.
Movie theater with 270-degree panoramic screen coming to American Dream megamall
An eight-screen movie theater is slated to open at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford with a date yet to be determined, company executives announced Tuesday morning. The theater will be operated by Missouri-based B&B, the nation’s fifth largest movie theater chain. It will feature ScreenX technology, which...
Proposal to Move Statue of Italian Saint Angers Residents in Ironbound
NEWARK — Plans to move a statue of a celebrated Italian-American figure from a neglected park have angered Ironbound residents, who turned out at a meeting Monday to voice their concerns about the proposal, which was discussed by City Council earlier this year. The statue of Roman Catholic St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini, is in a park outside of Newark Penn Station, but in April the City Council discussed moving it to a space near St. Francis Xavier Church in the North Ward — a move that prompted objections during the meeting organized...
Forgotten NY Giants pass-rusher could be playing for his Big Blue career in 2024
Oh, how quickly things can change in only a matter of two years. Back in 2021, then rookie NY Giants outside linebacker Azeez Ojulari was loved all over East Rutherford. The former second-round pick was a force in the trenches and his potential was through the roof. That fall and...
Newark flights back to normal after air traffic controller shortage
NEWARK, N.J. -- Flights are back to normal at Newark Liberty International Airport after they had to be slowed Monday evening because of an air traffic controller shortage, according to the Federal Aviation Administration."Operations at Newark Liberty International Airport are currently normal. The FAA briefly slowed flights into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday evening due to air traffic controller staffing issues at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (N90)," the FAA said in a statement Tuesday. Flights at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports were not impacted. This is expected to be a busy week at the...
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