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March 2008 Articles
Oroho on budget
committee challenging “distressed cities aid”
SPARTA (3/28/08) –
State Senator Steve Oroho (R-24) is among five Republican members of
the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee demanding that
Community Affairs Commissioner Joseph Doria come to the
appropriations committee hearings on April 7 prepared to explain the
program known as the Distressed Cities Aid and how and why the
program ballooned from $38 million six years ago to $153 million in
the current state budget. The program also is known as the Special
Municipal Aid Program.
Full Story
Mount Olive
Council may tackle septic system problems in Flanders
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/27/08) – After considerable
discussion concerning installing sewers in the Flanders section of
the township Tuesday night, Council President Ray Perkins and other
members of the Council agreed to have Business Administrator Bill
Sohl devise a letter to be sent to each of the 95 concerned
residents asking their views in the matter of installing sewers and
whether they would participate in paying assessments for a sewer
system.
Full Story
Mount Olive
school budget finalized, now up to voters
MOUNT OLIVE (3/28/08) –
The quality of the township’s education program is on the line when
voters go to the polls on April 15 to vote for the 2008-09 school
board budget. Schools Superintendent Dr. Rosalie Lamonte, has all
but begged voters at a series of public meetings to vote and to get
their friends to vote too. “This is a crucial time to be informed
and to vote,” she has said.
Full Story
Kid brother
starts accidental fire cops find big brother’s drug stash
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/27/08) – An accidental kitchen
fire started by his 14 year old brother yesterday led to the arrest
of his 19 year old brother on a drug charge.
Full Story
Council proposes 4% salary boost for supervisory employees; bonuses
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/27/08) – With little fanfare,
the Township Council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance granting 4%
across the board salary increases for department heads and
supervisory personnel. A public hearing will be held in the
municipal building at the next Council meeting on April 2.
Full Story
All Veterans Memorial proceeding on schedule
MOUNT
OLIVE (3/26/08) –
Business Administrator
Bill Sohl reported to the Township Council last night
that work on the All Veteran’s Memorial in Turkey Brook
Park is moving ahead on schedule and weather permitting
will be complete and ready for Memorial Day ceremonies.
Full Story
McHose working with Republicans to propose “appropriate” budget cuts
Morris Music Conservatory hosts Tricky Tray this Saturday
BOONTON (3/25/08) -
Reminder:
Mark your calendars for the Morris Conservatory of Music
Tricky Tray this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the St. Cyril
and Methodius Parish Hall, 215 Hill St., Boonton, NJ.
Full Story
Route 46
head on crash sends five to hospitals
MOUNT OLIVE (3/22/08) – A 19
year old Budd Lake woman driver and a male companion from Texas were
air lifted to Morristown Memorial Hospital yesterday after the car
they were driving east in apparently crossed over a yellow line on
Route 46 at Budd Lake and collided head on with another car that was
being driven west.
Full Story
Sen. Oroho
outraged at Abbott Districts funding
SPARTA (3/15/08) – “All
students deserve a good education, but there’s no evidence that the
vast amounts of money the state pumps into the Abbott districts
produces anywhere near the results we should expect for the money."
Full Story
McHose challenging unequal state per pupil school aid
MOUNT OLIVE (3/20/08) –
Assemblywoman Alison Littell
McHose today challenged the NJ Department of Education’s per pupil
state aid formula saying it was outrageously unfair to all but the
so called “Abbot Districts” and that most suburban school districts,
in order to comply with state mandates, were seriously cutting
essential education programs. “And the irony is that even though
Abbott Districts in most cases are receiving twice as much money per
pupil aid from the state, the response is terribly disappointing,”
she said.
Full Story
High School
Metal Shop Courses saved a young soldier’s life in Iraq
MOUNT OLIVE (3/18/08) –
It was a moving presentation at a recent Board of Education meeting.
Randy Wain, the Metals Shop teacher, was making a plea to keep his
class in the school curriculum.
Full Story
John DiLillo, a heart
rehab patient at Hackettstown Regional Medical Centr and nurse Patty
Grzbowski cross the finish line at the Leprechaun Leap on Saturday
Hackettstown Hospital heart patient and nurse compete in Leprechaun
Leap
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/17/08) - About
450 participants braved the rain Saturday to participate in the 11th
annual Leprechaun Leap at the International Trade Center. The 5K
run attracted people of all ages….not did all do five miles, not
even three miles, nor did they all run, jog or even walk fast. The
important thing is they participated, even if they just walked.
That, according to John DiLillo is what’s important.
Full Story
Tinc Road
School Vendor Night Shopping Extravaganza April 9
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/17/08) –
The Tinc Road School is having a “Shopping Extravaganza” Wednesday,
April 9 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium.
Full Story
Chief
Spitzer commends school staff in vandal arrests;
Suggests
strongly that School Board will seek restitution
MOUNT OLIVE (3/16/08) -
Police Chief Mark Spitzer has expressed extreme disappointment in
the youths charged with vandalizing 44 school buses last Wednesday.
Full Story
McHose, a
sponsor of twins
classroom placements legislation
TRENTON (3/114/08) -
Assembly members Alison McHose, Louis
Greenwald, and Joan Voss sponsored bill to give the parents of twins
or other multiple birth children the authority to decide whether
their kids learn in the same classroom advanced in the full Assembly
yesterday. Full Story
Sen.
Menendez slams Bush budget cuts leads effort to reverse country
direction
Washington, D.C.
(3/13/08) – U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a member of the
budget committee, yesterday made a major speech during the Senate’s
week-long debate on the FY 09 budget.
Full Story
Some 44 School buses tires deflated school opening
delayed two hours
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/13/08) – Township police are investigating who and
how an apparent vandal or vandals got through a chain link fence in
the early morning hours and managed to deflate the tires on 44
school buses in the school bus garage. School opening was delayed
two hours. Full Story
MOUNT OLIVE (3/13/08) To The Editor: We
want to take this opportunity to thank the residents of the 24th
District who participated in the meeting of the Assembly Republican
Task Force on Fiscal Responsibility that we hosted on March 10.
Full
Letter
New
Line of March for Memorial Day Parade
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/13/08) – Business Administrator Bill Sohl and his
wife, Linda, have announced the new line of march for the township
Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 26th at 10 a.m. Full Story
Park
Partners Dinner April 12 at VASA Hall
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/13/07) – The Mount Olive Park Partners are holding
their annual fund raising dinner in support of the township’s parks
on Saturday, April 12 in the VASA Park banquet hall, Wolfe Road.
Full Story
Mount
Olive students recruited to help with “Get Out the Vote”
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/11/08) – The thousand or so high school kids
applauded speaker after speaker in their Civics type assembly class
today on the patriotic responsibility of participating in
elections….particularly the upcoming one on the school budget ….that
is until their ox got gored.
Full Story
There was a
lot more to that “no” vote
MOUNT OLIVE (3/10/08) – It was
a strange “no” vote. The Board of Education had spent a
considerable length of time discussing a resolution to go to state
legislators protesting the 60% requirement to pass any second budget
question on the ballot in the Board of Education election April 15.
Full Story
Township acquires Blue Atlas Nursery
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/10/08) – Township Grants Coordinator Kathy Murphy,
today announced the acquisition of a 32 acre open space tract known
as the Blue Atlas Nursery on Flanders-Netcong Rd.
Full Story
Old Flanders
School has a new life as a training school for handicapped
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/10/08) - The last million dollars is always the most
difficult to raise, said Bill Testa, the executive director of the
ARC of Morris.
Full Story
Perkins: Council agenda and documents to be available before Council
meetings
MOUNT
OLIVE (3/10/08) –
Council President Ray Perkins, in his pursuit of “Green
Initiatives” for the township, announced another highly innovative
initiative today….making available on the township web site Agendas
for upcoming Council meetings.
Full Story
“Frustrated” school board adopts a two question budget
MOUNT
OLIVE (3/07/08) – A thoroughly frustrated Board of
Education, acting on the recommendations of an even more frustrated
superintendent of schools, last night finalized a three question
2008-09 budget to be submitted to voters on April 15. Full Story
Kiwanis Easter egg Hunt
postponed till March 16
MOUNT OLIVE (3/07/08)
– The
annual Mount Olive Kiwanis Club Easter Egg Hunt at
Turkey Brook Park on Flanders Road has been postponed
until March 16.
Full Story
MO
Chamber to meet Mar. 18 speakers will speak on Aging
MOUNT OLIVE (3/5/08) -
Aging will be the theme at the Mount
Olive Area Chamber of Commerce's next meeting, sponsored by Paragon
Village, on Tuesday, March 18th.
Full Story
Scapicchio
presides over affable budget review “give and take”
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/6/08) – Although it was well publicized only about
35 people showed up at the library last night to hear Mayor David
Scapicchio run through a power point presentation on the 2008
budget. It was a repeat performance of the same format he followed
after he was elected for the first time last year.
Full Story
Legislators
warn: tolls and gas hikes, new Rt. 78 & 80 tolls “all on the table”
NEWTON (3/5/08) -
In response to a key Democrat senator’s prediction today that the
Legislature, by year’s end, will approve a 45 percent toll increase
and an 18 cent hike in the state’s gas tax, State Senator Steve
Oroho, Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, and Assemblyman Gary
Chiusano, R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon, cautioned taxpayers to brace
themselves for another significant hit on their wallets.
Full Story
Mount
Olive’s school chief Rosalie Lamonte has announced that she will
retire next year
MOUNT OLIVE
(3/4/08) – Schools Superintendent Rosalie Lamonte, who
came to the k-12 school system in January 2003, will retire next
February. Her contract was to have run until June 30, 2110.
Full Story
McHose and
Chiusano bring task force on “tax responsibility” to
district March 10
NEWTON (3/3/08) -
Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose and
Assemblyman Gary Chiusano today announced that the Republican Task
Force on Fiscal Responsibility seeking public input to Gov.
Corzine’s proposed toll hike and borrowing proposal will come to
Newton next Monday evening.
Full Story
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