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Bloomfield to mark Jun. 27 to Jul. 1 as Pot Hole Repair Week with residents encouraged to submit streets in need of repair to township website
Township of Bloomfield
Registration is open for Bloomfield recreation’s summer programing with youth and adult yoga fitness classes happening weekly beginning Jul. 5 online or at the Civic Center
Bloomfield Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs
Bloomfield High School English and special education teacher Terry Nevins retires after 41 years with the district
Essex News Daily
Local News
Bloomfield’s confirmed cumulative COVID deaths remain at 160 as of Jun. 27 with official new case numbers no longer representative of new infections due to vaccine protections, expanded at-home testing
Essex County
Bloomfield Soccer Club’s Strikers, U17 2005 girls team, win division championship
Bloomfield Soccer Club
Casa de Flora Bar celebrated the grand opening of the florist, bar, and coffee shop space at 75 Washington St.
North Jersey Chamber of Commerce
Essex County to host free free fireworks display, concert by The Infernos Jul. 1 in Bloomfield’s Brookdale Park
Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, Jr.
Striking nurses and technicians organized with JNESO District Council 1 at Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark win new contract with increased healthcare access, fairer wages, improved patient safety standards after 31 day work stoppage
Newark Patch
Clara Maass Medical Center, RWJBarnabas Health to partner with nonprofit New Jersey Reentry Corporation to provide free health assesments and doctor referrals to people returning from incarceration at state re-entry center in Kearney
TAPinto Bloomfield
New Jersey State Fair at the Meadowlands runs from Jun. 23 to Jul. 10 with advanced tickets required
State Fair Meadowlands
Other News
FDA orders e-cigarette company Juul to pull all of its products from the market in effort to reduce nicotine use among youth with company among main drivers of increased youth vaping nationwide
NJ Spotlight News
New report from Make the Road New Jersey finds many of state’s 127k temporary workers work in same jobs year-round unprotected from wage theft, unsafe conditions, discrimination and abuse as N.J. legislature considers “temp worker’s bill of rights”
Newark Patch
122k remain on waiting list for N.J. lottery rental assistance program as eviction levels climb towards pre-pandemic levels with $750m in assistance already disbursed, $500m more promised
NorthJersey.com