Mount Olive to
celebrate memorable Memorial Weekend
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/22/08) – The highlight of this
Memorial Day weekend will be the dedication and inauguration of the
All Veterans Memorial, a unique monument honoring all veterans of
all branches of service in all wars. The ceremony will begin Sunday
at 2 p.m. in Turkey Brook Park.
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Kiwanis
celebration Saturday honoring Lamonte & Sheard
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/21/08) - The Kiwanis Club is
holding a Fiesta Mexicana celebration on Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9
p.m. in the Budd Lake Firehouse on Route 46. The affair is being
held to honor Dr. Rosalie Lamonte, the township school
superintendent and Jerry Sheard, a Budd Lake Fire Squad member and
dedicated Volunteer.
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Oroho,
McHose, Chiusano oppose California same sex marriage law
SPARTA
(5/16/080 - State Sen. Steven
Oroho, Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose and Assemblyman Gary
Chiusano, (all R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon) took issue in a
statement today with yesterday’s California State Supreme Court’s
decision to overturn that state’s voter approved ban on same-sex
marriage.
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Library
offering moms workshop“Re-entering the Workforce”
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/16/08) – The Mount Olive Public
Library is offering a unique program that will assist women
contemplating whether or not to re-enter the work force and if they
decide to do it tips on how to go about it.
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Wyka explains how
“big money” influences elections. Hits GOP
PARSIPPANY (5/16/08)
– Tom Wyka, one of the Democrats
challenging Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen in the 11th
Congressional District, is hitting Frelinghuysen hard on the
influence of “big money” in politics. He says he isn’t talking
about money candidates raise from “in district” supporters to run
their political campaigns, it’s where the “really big” money comes
from, he says, and the influence it gives them.
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Oroho
demanding investigation of “Special Aid Program”
TRENTON
(5/16/08) – State Sen. Steve Oroho
once again is attacking the state’s “Special Municipal Aid Program” and
once again has been turned back by the Democratic legislative
majority even though the State Auditor’s Office has just issued a
“highly critical” report on the program which has ballooned from $38
million to $153 million in the past six years.
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24th District
legislators to speak at Chamber of Commerce meeting
MOUNT OLIVE (
5/15/08) – The 24th Legislative
District’s team, State Sen. Steve Oroho and Assembly members Alison
McHose and Gary Chiusano will be the speakers at the Mount Olive
Area Chamber of Commerce meeting on Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. in
the Wyndham Garden Hotel in the International Trade Center. Light
refreshments will be served.
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Sen. Oroho:
Re-visit Abbott School Districts
TRENTON (5/13/08) -
State Sen Steve
Oroho today issued a statement sharply criticizing published reports
about waste, fraud and rampant abuse in the 31 Abbott School
districts:
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Budd Lake
Fire Department receives $78,000 grant for new roof and windows
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/12/08) – The old saying,”If at
first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again,” applies here to a
$78,000 federal Housing and Urban Development grant the township
received that will allow the Budd Lake Fire Department to replace
the roof on the Route 46 firehouse and new windows where needed.
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Local
government budget battle rages on Mayor and Council to meet again
Tuesday
MOUNT
OLIVE (5/09/08) – The battle of
the budget continues with Mayor David Scapicchio determinedly
sticking to the $26,856,169 budget he submitted to the township
council last January. Another special budget meeting is scheduled
for this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the municipal building.
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Renovated ARC Center to be dedicated today
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/03/08) – The ARC/Morris, will
dedicate its newly renovated Julius and Loretta Krauklin Center on
Main Street in Flanders at 2 p.m. today.
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Chiusano: New Jersey has worst tax system
MOUNT OLIVE (5/1/08) -
Citing the results of a new
study released yesterday that shows New Jersey has the worst tax
system of the 50 States, Assemblyman Gary Chiusano said Gov. Corzine
and his party can’t blame the nation’s economic woes for the abysmal
tax ranking of the Garden State. The study was published by The
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC).
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Mount Olive Bar and Grill owner arrested and charged in drug bust
MOUNT OLIVE
(5/02/08) –
Jason Barry, 46,
of Long Valley, one of the owners of the Mount Olive Bar and Grill,
located in the shopping mall on Route 206, was arrested Wednesday
and charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia,
resisting arrest and tampering with evidence.
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Sens. Oroho and
Bateman Challenge Abbott funding
Trenton
(5/1/08) –
