Elders can get rides to get their COVID-19 vaccines

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Need to Know

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Bloomfield elders can call the health department to find out more about an Essex County pilot program providing bussing to COVID-19 vaccination sites
Bloomfield Patch

Own or manage a business or property in Bloomfield? You’re required to report how much you recycle to help the town win state grants
Township of Bloomfield

Latest federal relief will give $26m to Bloomfield, $150m to Essex County to cover pandemic expenses, provide aid, invest in water or broadband infrastructure
Montclair Patch

N.J. has fully vaccinated 1m people, 12% of residents, against COVID-19 as of Mar. 15 with nearly 1 in 4 people receiving at least their first shot
Associated Press

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Local News

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Bloomfield recreation offering co-ed track and field, tennis, boys’ volleyball for kids grades 5-8
Bloomfield Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs

COVID-19: Bloomfield’s confirmed cumulative cases rise to 4,437, deaths to 106 as of Mar. 15
Essex County

Here’s where you can get a COVID-19 vaccine in Essex County as of Mar. 12
Newark Patch

Bloomfield retiring township administrator Matt Watkins’s last day is Mar. 31 with no details announced yet about his replacement
Essex News Daily

Dev’s Jamaican Cuisine, GoodeLiving, Bloomfield Info Project among businesses participating in Bloomfield Center Alliance marketing training
TAPinto Bloomfield

South Orange-Maplewood K-2 students return to school Monday as teachers’ union releases findings of recent safety walkthroughs, district pulls out of mediation
Maplewood Patch

This week’s Essex County food distribution is Mar. 18 in Newark
Essex County

Read ahead for Bloomfield library’s virtual book club meeting on Apr. 19
Bloomfield Public Library

Montclair receives $680k grant to design electricity microgrid to support essential infrastructure near Mountainside Medical Center
Montclair Patch

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Other News

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Latest federal relief payments started being dispersed over the weekend
NJ.com

Murphy says he expects at least 3m first doses of COVID-19 vaccine will have been administered in N.J. by this weekend
CBS Philly

Murphy nominates Rachel Wainer Apter, former ACLU lawyer, clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to N.J. Supreme Court
Associated Press