There’s been another rollover accident on the eastern end of Bloomfield Avenue. This one occurred Friday morning at about 2:15 a.m. The car was traveling east on Bloomfield and veered off the roadway into the rocks just past Mountain Auto Body, in between Pompton and Sunset avenues. The car rolled over onto its side...
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Verona Police are asking drivers to avoid the intersection of Bloomfield and Pompton Avenues today. Apparently, an early morning crash toppled a utility pole across Bloomfield Avenue in the vicinity of Mountain Auto Body and Don Johnston’s Subway sandwich place. Traffic has been reduced to one lane in each direction while crews replace the...
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Just up Bloomfield Avenue from where we taking our videos of the flooding yesterday, Bob Berman captured a much different scene. From the front door of his business, Berman Home Systems, he took this video of Police Officer Page Parsels, knee deep in the swirling waters, trying to keep traffic moving even as the...
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The last thing Steve Janett wants to see right now is more rain. Monday night’s torrential downpour has already cost the owner of the buildings that house Prudential New Jersey Properties and other businesses $16,000 to clean up. He doesn’t yet know what the tab for replacing all the water-damaged drywall will be. But...
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You probably know by know that Verona’s main thoroughfare can be a bit dicey at times. Bloomfield Avenue gets a lot of cars and, as in all towns, there’s not a lot of room between street-side parking and the traffic. Kevin Toscano was in an accident on Bloomfield Avenue this weekend and sent us...
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A few years back, environmentalists ran an energy efficiency campaign under the slogan “Change A Light, Change The World”. Essex County has begun to change the lights at 275 locations throughout the county and you’ll soon see the difference in Verona. The county recently got a $2.2 million grant from the federal government to...
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Bloomfield Avenue is one long traffic jam this Tuesday morning in our end of Essex County. It seems that any utility or contractor that needs access to anything under the roadway is trying to get that access now before the new paving goes on top. So find an alternative to get from east or...
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Stay off Bloomfield Avenue for the next three nights if at all possible: Verona’s main east-west artery is being repaved. The Verona Police Department says the roadwork will run from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. You can’t park on Bloomfield while the work is going on, and traffic is being narrowed to one lane...
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The rumors are true: There will soon be two Subways in town. The newest of the sandwich franchises will occupy the space formerly occupied by Liberty Travel on Bloomfield Avenue between Mount Prospect and Sunset Avenues, near the Montclair border. It will open for business in the next couple of months, according to Yogesh...
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The replacement of the curbs on the south side of Bloomfield Avenue in Verona between Park and Brookdale Avenues has begun. Traffic was moving slowly there today, especially in the direction of Montclair during school drop-off and pick-up hours. The work had ended by 5 p.m., but there were still some police vehicles in...
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