We can be
reached by writing
PO Box 472,
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
or by e-mailing
richard.johnston@verizon.net
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information, please email or contact
Richard Johnston at
richard.johnston@verizon.net
The
Highlands News Service of New Jersey
Welcome to the Highlands
News Service! We have undergone a major
reconstruction. Mt. Olive residents now have the unique
opportunity to have a total news service that covers world, Morris
County and Mt. Olive on line...at your fingertips...day and night.
There will be in depth reporting of local government activities
including the mayor and council, school, planning and zoning boards,
politics, tax issues and all matters of concern, school news, police
and court news, political columns, editorials and opinion letters to
the editor.
It also will publish obituaries, church, social and news about
seniors, historical and special features about humorous things kids
say and do, lovable pets stories and personality articles about
residents who have stories and activities of interest to talk about.
A main feature will be the varied activities of the recreation
department, everything from children and adult programs and sports;
trips to New York Theatres and other places of interest and the
agency's wide variety of local recreational activities.
Richard Johnston, Publisher/Managing Editor
Dick has been a news reporter/bureau manager/publisher for more than
40 years. He started his newspaper career covering local and county
governments for the Newark News as a general assignment reporter. He
also covered Northern New Jersey for the New York Herald Tribune. He
covered political and police news in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and
Morris Counties for 10 years and was a bureau manager in the Newark
News West Hudson Office. He also covered the Union County Courthouse
for the Elizabeth Journal. He founded and was president of the
Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce and founded and published the
chamber’s full color news magazine, Meadowlands, USA.
He was a member of the task force that established the NJ Department
of Community Affairs and served as the department’s spokesman to the
media. He also was the Commissioner’s representative to mayors
throughout the state as well as assisting cities write plans for
federal “Model Cities” grants. He also was the editor of the NJ
Division of State and Regional Planning newsletter, “Jersey Plans.”
As a transportation consultant in his own business, he was certified
by the state to write “trip reduction” plans for employers regulated
by the Federal Clean Air Act and was the public information officer
for the Hackensack Meadowlands Municipal Committee, a committee of
14 mayors of communities in the Hackensack Meadowlands region.
In another venture he obtained more than $30 million in state
deposits for the state’s only minority bank as and was a founder and
president of SHARE-New Jersey, a highly successful food subsidy
program now administered by the Catholic Archdiocese of Newark
He has a BA degree in Urban Transportation Planning from the Edward
J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers
University.
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